Description

Description

The title says it all, a book crammed with juicy polkas to get your teeth into. A must for polka lovers as well as any other musician who is perhaps looking for easier Irish repertoire. Why not give yourself a break from the reels and jigs occasionally?

“The lowly, oft scorned polka”: take no notice, don’t believe a word. In this book you’ll find 100 really smashing tunes, some familiar, many not so familiar; play some slow, play some fast, play some very fast. With good phrasing and rhythm these tunes will stand their ground against reels and jigs any day.

100 tunes (100 polkas) with chords, classified and alphabetical (with alternative titles) indexes. The book also contains a comprehensive bibliography and discography listing every single book and recording referred to whilst researching the tunes.

Contents

All the Way to Galway

As I went Out upon Ice

Ballydesmond no. 1

Ballydesmond no. 2

Ballydesmond no. 3

Ballynahulla no. 1

Ballynahulla no. 2

Ballyvournie

Battle of Aughrim

Belles of Ballinderry

Biddy Martin’s

Bill Sullivan’s

Camptown Races

Captain Byng

Captain Maguire

Carroll’s

Church Street

Clare Dragoons

Cousins’ Delight

Dalaigh’s

Dan Coakley’s

Dan Mac’s

Dark Girl

Denis Doody’s

Denis Murphy’s Din Tarrant’s

Din Tarrant’s no. 3

Doyle’s

Farewell to Whiskey

Finnegan’s Wake

First of May

Forty-two Pound Cheque

Four Shoves no. 1

Four Shoves no. 2

An Gallope

Girl with the Blue Dress

Glen Cottage no. 1

Glen Cottage no. 2

Gneevgullia

Gullane

High Caul’d Cap

I have a Bonnet

Bonnet Trimmed with Blue

Jack Reedy’s

Jer the Rigger

Jim Keeffe’s

Jim Keeffe’s no. 1

Jimmy Doyle’s Favourite

John Egan’s

John McGovern’s Johnny Ghabba

Johnny, I Do Miss You!

Johnny Leary’s

Johnny Mickey Barry’s

John Walsh’s

Julia Clifford’s

Kerry no. 1

Kerry no. 2

Knocknaboul no. 1

Knocknaboul no. 2

Lackagh Cross

Lakes of Sligo

Lisdoonvarna

Little Diamond

Mack’s Rambles

Magic Slipper

Mary Girl

Matt Hayes’ no. 1

Matt Hayes’ no. 2

Mike Coen’s

Mrs Crowley’s

Mrs Ryan’s

Munster Bank

Murroe

Newmarket O’Connor’s

O’Keeffe’s

O’Sullivan’s Fancy

Britches full of Stitches

Paddy Kenny’s

Patsy Baker

Rose Tree

Saint Mary’s

Séamus Cussen’s

Sliabh Luachra

Spanish Lady

Sprig of Shillelagh

Sweeney’s

Terry Teahan’s

Tom Sullivan’s

Top of Maol

Tuar Mór no. 1

Tuar Mór no. 2

Tuar Mór no. 3

Tureengarbh Glen

Up and Away

Up on the Waggon

Upperchurch no. 1

Upperchurch no. 2

Walsh’s