Description

This is the first volume of a four-part collection of over 200 Irish and Scottish dance tunes and airs arranged for standard Richter and Paddy Richter tuned 10-hole diatonic harmonicas. Volume One contains 37 famous Celtic airs, laments, mazurkas, and waltzes including Danny Boy, The Last Rose of Summer, The Minstrel Boy, MacphersonÆs Farewell, Annie Laurie, and many others. The book includes standard notation in the original keys, harmonica tab, guitar chords, and downloadable audio files of the tunes. There is also an instructional section explaining all the techniques youÆll need to know to play traditional music on harmonica.

Contents

1. Annie Laurie
2. Archibald Macdonald Of Keppoch
3. The Arran Boat Song
4. The Ash Grove
5. Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms
6. Boolavogue
7. Cáit Ní Dhuibhir
8. Childgrove
9. Danny boy
10. Down by the Salley Gardens
11. Farewell
12. The Foggy Dew (st and nd settings)
13. For Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name
14. Gentle Annie
15. Highland Mary
16. Jock o’ Hazeldean
17. The Lark in the Clear Air
18. The Last Rose of Summer
19. Logan Water
20. MacPherson’s Farewell
21. Mary, Young And Fair
22. The Minstrel Boy
23. My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose
24. Neil Gow’s Lament for the Death of His Second Wife
25. The Parting Glass
26. Princess Augusta
27. The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
28. Rosin The Beau
29. The Shepherd’s Wife
30. Sir John Fenwick’s The Flower Among Them All
31. The Skye Boat Song
32. The South Wind
33. Two Irish Mazurkas (Sonny’s Mazurka and Tommy Peoples’ Mazurka)
34. The Wild Geese
35. The Wren