Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for Mountain Dulcimer

In folk tradition stories of love lost betrayal jealousy conflict emigration and the supernatural are often immortalised in songs of many traditions demonstrating that singing has been a universal vehicle for the humancondition. The criteria for this wonderful collection of prose and melodies is from Celtic traditions that have been with us for hundreds of years. These compositions have been arranged so that each will work both as an air and asa song. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion audio online.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Beginning Musical Genre : Celtic/Irish Series : Complete Number of pages : 192 While the wooden simple-system flute is traditionally used in playing Irish music, a growing number of folk players have adopted the silver flute as a viable alternative. Here for the first time, The Complete Irish Flute Book presents the silver or Boehm flutist with a method for learning authentic Irish ornamentation! This thorough guide provides detailed fingering charts, exercises, and technical essays for learning to execute ornaments in the in the Irish style. Through a wealth of hornpipes, reels, jigs, set dances, and slow airs and songs. This book focuses not only on musical accuracy, but stylistic authenticity as well. The companion CD contains 26 of the 101 tunes from the book.