Mel Bay Celtic Harmonica Encyclopedia Volume 1 (Airs, Waltzes & Mazurkas) - Weiser - Harmonica - Book/Media Online

Author/Composer:

WEISER, GLENN

Instrumentation:

HARMONICA

Model #:

31181M

Author: Glenn Weiser
Foreword: Winslow Yerxa
Format: Book with PDF and Audio Online
Instrumentation: Harmonica

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", "Macpherson's Farewell", "Annie Laurie", and many others. The book includes standard notation in the original keys, harmonica tab, and guitar chords. There is also an instructional section explaining all the techniques you'll need to know to play traditional music on harmonica. Also includes online audio files of the tunes and PDF of interviews with leading Celtic harmonica players about the details of their playing techniques.

Song List:

• Annie Laurie
• Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch
• The Arran Boat Song
• The Ash Grove
• Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms
• Boolavogue
• Cait Ni Dhuibhir
• Childgrove
• Danny Boy
• Down by the Salley Gardens
• Farewell
• The Foggy Dew (st and nd settings)
• For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name
• Gentle Annie
• Highland Mary
• Jock O' Hazeldean
• The Lark in the Clear Air
• The Last Rose of Summer
• Logan Water
• Macpherson's Farewell
• Mary, Young and Fair
• The Minstrel Boy
• My Love Is Like a Red, Red Rose
• Neil Gow's Lament for the Death of His Second Wife
• The Parting Glass
• Princess Augusta
• The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
• Rosin the Beau
• The Shepherd's Wife
• Sir John Fenwick's The Flower Among Them All
• The Skye Boat Song
• The South Wind
• Two Irish Mazurkas (Sonny's Mazurka and Tommy Peoples' Mazurka)
• The Wild Geese
• The Wren