Irish Melodies

This book contains 138 well-known Irish jigs reels hornpipes set dances O'Carolan tunes folksongs ballads airs and waltzes. These wonderful Irish melodies are written in Harmonica tablature and standard notationfor use on the 12-hole chromatic standard 10-hole diatonic and tremolo Harmonica. Learning these melodies will enhance your playing skills as well as your repertoire. The online stereo recording is in split-track formatand includes a selection of 25 melodies from the book.

This book contains a selection of Thomas Moore’s best known airs taken from his Irish Melodies set here as easy-arrangements for voice with piano accompaniment. One of Ireland’s most celebrated and respected artists Moore was a great poet actor and singer and the beauty and poignancy of his work is evident here. These eighteen pieces represent some of his finest work and are suitable for all music and poetry lovers with the traditional airs providing a detailed sound-scape to accompany the evocative words of the songs.Includes The Last Rose Of Summer The Meeting Of The Waters and Has Sorrow thy Young days Ended.

Learn to play traditional Irish melodies on the cello. The Irish Cello Book covers traditional articulations concepts and practices of Irish music many traditionally for fiddle but here adapted to thecello. It includes technical lessons and a tune book of over 100 traditional Irish melodies. The demonstration and play-along tracks features a traditional Irish ensemble. You will learn to play Irish melodies usingtraditional articulations and performance nuances such as cuts pats rolls and slurs. You'll also learn to recognize distinguishing features of song forms adapt melodies to the cell play in a traditional Irish ensemble andmuch more.

Joachim, Joseph Fantasy on Hungarian Themes (1850), Fantasy on Irish [Scottish] Themes (1852) for Violin and Orchestra Edition no. BA 7898-90 ISMN 9790006566020 Joseph Joachim's 'Fantasies on Hungarian and Irish [Scottish] Themes' was his first virtuoso music for the violin with orchestral accompaniment. Joachim was intent on creating popular works, not least at the urging of his family, but they also bore witness to his urbanity: the young Jewish-Hungarian musician spent many summers in England and its familiar, Irish melodies held great appeal for English audiences. Performances of the 'Fantasy on Hungarian Themes' in German cities met his need for self-display as the 'Hungarian lad', to use Mendelssohn's jocular epithet. Joachim was well aware that the style hongrois was all the rage in European capitals.

The compositions of Turlough O'Carolan born in 1670 have a special place in the story of Irish music as does the figure of Carolan himself a blind itinerant harper living at a time of significant change in Irish history.Carolan seems to embody the image of the old bards in whom resided the last vestiges of the ancient music and the lost art of extempore poetry. His music is often seen as a link between traditional Irish melodies and baroque musicbut more importantly it includes some of the most striking melodies ever composed in any tradition. Originally written for harp these compositions lend themselves perfectly for the fingerstyle guitarist. In this lesson Duck Baker teaches a wide variety of Carolan pieces from the simple folk-like air Blind Mary to the stately Hewlett. The mysterious Planxty Kelly and the deeply melodic The Fairy Queen are presented as well as Carolan's Concerto a complex folk-baroque arrangement of the bard's most celebrated composition.