Irish Party

Volume One-This fabulous book contains the complete lyrics for one hundred old favourites from the huge reserve of Irish Party Songs. Includes many traditional favourites and popular classics such as Tie A Yellow Ribbon House ofthe Rising Sun Scarborough Fair For The Good Times and Amazing Grace. The shape and style of the book means that it is perfect as a gig-bag reference but the collection will appeal to anyone who enjoysjoining in at a sing-song and karaoke sessions or even a quiet croon in the bathroom!

The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the music, listen to the demonstration tracks to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The purchase price includes online access to audio for download or streaming. This volume features eight Celtic favorites: Casey's Jig · David's Jig · Fisherman's Blues · I'm Shipping up to Boston · An Irish Party in Third Class · Lancaster Gate · Preacher on a Pony (The Right Reverend Brother Guilderness' Jig/The Langstern Pony) · U.S.A. 1. Casey's Jig 2. David's Jig 3. Fisherman's Blues 4. I'm Shipping Up To Boston 5. An Irish Party In Third Class 6. Lancaster Gate 7. Preacher On A Pony [The Right Reverend Brother Guilderness' Jig/The Langstern Pony] 8. U.S.A. / Musique films - comédies musicales / Hal Leonard

Our songbook matches the popular CD of music from this blockbuster film. Includes piano arrangements for 10 songs: Alexander's Ragtime Band · A Building Panic · Come Josephine In My Flying Machine · Epilogue - The Deep and Timeless Sea · An Irish Party in Third Class · Jack Dawson's Luck · My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from Titanic) · Nearer My God to Thee · The Portrait · A Shore Never Reached.

Here is the Lost Heritage of the Irish-American Banjo! The Irish-style Tenor banjo has become immensely popular of late yet the roots of Irish influence on American Banjo music extends right back to the 1840s when the legendary Joel Sweeney picked up a gourd Banjo from Black American Banjo players and proceeded to perform 'jigs reels and breakdowns'. Other Irish-Americans played a leading role in the development and popularity of theBanjo in America and Rob MacKillop has collected 27 of their finest pieces in this collection the first of its kind. Early Irish-American Banjo is a solo instrumental collection writtenin standard notation plus 3 lines of tablature for the 5-string Banjo the 4-string tenor Banjo in standard tuning (CGDA) and for the Irish tenor Banjo in octave-mandolin tuning (GDAE low-to-high). Lyrics are not included in thisvolume.Can be played with either a flat pick or fingerstyle.The audio recording contains brilliant performances of all 27 pieces by Rob MacKillop a leading performer of historical Banjo music.Rob performs fingerstyle with the flesh of his fingertips on gut strings on a period-appropriate banjo in the old American tuning. This online recording is a treasure in itself.Tunes included: StPatrick's Day; Rocky Road To Dublin; Savourneen Deelish; McCormick Party Reel Sheridan's Hornpipe Connaught Man's Rambles and many others. Includes access to online audio.

CELLOWISE is an exciting new collection of arrangements from the popular classics. The standard is from Grade 3 upwards and included are Bach Badinerie Handel Sarabande Haydn Gipsy Rondo Gossec Gavotte and Tambourin Brahms Hungarian Dance and other favourites with attached CD of top quality performances making a pleasant and varied recital programme both to listen to and of course to play. Cellowise is featured on the 2014 Bauhinia Cup String Competition in Hong Kong and is on the current syllabuses of Trinity College London the Musik-PrüfungsKommission in Vienna and the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin 2015-2018.FOOTNOTE TO CONTENTSOriginally a folk-dance from Medieval Spain the Sarabande became the spiritual centre-point of the 18th. Century dance suite and well-known to cellists through the Bach Suites.The Badinerie is a musical haiku stunning in its precision and economy of means and like a poem condenses much meaning and expression into few words.Sir Yehudi Menuhin once called the 'Erbarme Dich' solo the most beautiful piece of music ever written for the violin. This poignant duet for voice and obligato is about remorse betrayal and the universal theme of suffering. It is one of the centre-pieces of the St. Matthew Passion and is sung after Peter has denied Christ betraying him to the authorities and to his Crucifixion.Gavotte and Tambourin. These two Dances reflect the political opposites of the French Revolution - one a popular dance for partying and celebration the other more courtly and considered a favourite of Marie Antoinette.Rondo all'Ongarese and Hungarian Dance.Hungarian Folk music is fiery and impassioned with virtuoso techniques of embellishment and improvisation. Haydn and Brahms incorporated these elements into Classical forms.Like other Romantic and early-Romantic composers (Mendelssohn and Schubert) Brahms was attracted to Scotland as a wild and beautiful country of myth and