Mel Bay Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello - Duncan - Cello - Book

Arranger: Craig Duncan
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Cello

Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello is a collection of 30 traditional Irish, Scottish, and English melodies that are particularly suited to the cello. Traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O'Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. The arrangements include stylistic phrasing and variations as well as chord changes for accompaniment.

Contents:

• Call the Ewes -- Ca' the Yowes tae the Knowes
• Believe Me if All Those Endearing Young Charms
• Bonny at Morn
• Carolan's Concerto
• Carolan's Draught
• The Clergy's Lamentation
• The Coulin -- An Chuilfhionn / An Coolin
• Danny Boy -- Londonderry Air
• Down by the Sally Gardens -- The Maids of Mourne Shore
• Fair Flower of Northumberland
• Fanny Power
• Gentle Maiden
• Give Me Your Hand -- Tabhair dom do Lamh
• Hector the Hero
• John Anderson, My Jo
• Jock O' Hazeldean
• Niel Gow's Lament -- Niel Gow's Lament for the Death of his Second Wife
• Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore
• Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
• Red is the Rose
• Loch Lomond -- The Bonnie Banks of Loch Lomond
• Scarborough Fair
• She Moved Through the Fair
• Sheebeg Sheemore -- Si Beag, Si Mhor -- The Bonnie Cuckoo
• The Skye Boat Song -- Over the Sea to Skye
• The South Wind -- An Ghaoth Aneas
• Star of the County Down
• The Water is Wide -- Wally Wally
• Wild Mountain Thyme -- Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go
• Will Ye No Come Back Again -- Bonnie Charlie