troNNr€ ôuxrôee Traditional Scott Arr. G. Wq This is a 6/8 pipe-march."Bonnie Dundee" was the nickname of the ScottishJacobiregeneral, JamesGraham of Claverhouse,who was killed in the Battle of Killiecrankie on ;uly 27, tOAl. This. anangement is.designedto mimic the sound of the Highland pipes by lt"ui"g the righr hand thumb and index finger pinch octaves or fifths in the bassto ir.ut"'the effécts of ihe drones while the middle ând ring fingers play an ornamenred melody. It was originally publishedin the August 1998 issueo{ AcoustièGuitar.
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Traditional Scottish Arr. G. Weiser This is a beautifulScottish love song.
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The name Katie Dwyer was usedin eighteenth-centuryIrish poetry as a sobriquetfor Ireland. This is on the Chieftains' seventh album, and can also be found in The RocheCollection.
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser This serene,perfectly titled tune can be found in the Bw.ûngcolbction.
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Turlough O'Carol Arr. G . \llei This piecerTascomposedfor Colonel John Irwin and was originally played as a slow jig. However,_the piece is also quite effective as a waltz, and seems to be the q.,int.sseniial farewell when thus slowedin tempo. It has been worked our in two differenr octaves,which is a rarity for Celtic guitar arrangements.
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This is an E Dorian tune in dropped D tuning. Technically it is a single reel, which is characterizedby a four-measure repeating first part and an eight.measure non-repeating secondpart. DrowsyMaggie'salter ego,"sleepy Maggie" appearslater on.
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Despite-thesimilarity in titles,this tune doesnot seemro be a variant of "DrowsyMaggie." The source for this setting is Cole's 1000 Fiddle Tunes. A somewhat differenr version*has been recorded by Eric Schoenbergon his rounder album, AcousticGuitor.
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This is a stirring Irish reel, formerly known as "Listowell." The Irish commonly named or renamed tunes after Bonaparte, who they hoped would liberate Ireland from the cruel oppression of the English. Unfortunately, the much hoped-for succor from France never arrived.
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pÀÔÔV oN l.tle rr"Àll-RoÀÔ Traditional lrish Arr. G.Weiser O'Neill's Mr'rsicoJ This tune, which can be found in Cole's |OOOFiddteTvtnes,also appearsin "The Merry Blacksmith'" Irelardunder the title
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Traditional Ir A r r'. G v .I W vveÇ' ' This is an Irish tune that got retitled somewherealong the way and turned from a hor"pip" into a reel aswell.
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The city of Carrickferguslies on the EastCoast of Ulster in County Antrim not far from Belfast.This songis famous,andhasbeenrecordedby Van Morrisonwith the Chieftans. .l =63m. D
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This is a strathspey,which is a type of slow reel that becamepopular in Scotlandin rhe 1700's. This tune was written by Neil Gow, who was a court fiddler for the Duke of Atholl, when the British banned the distillation of spirits.Incidentally,when the Englishdecidedto stop being killloys and let the Scots have their favorite beverageback, Gow wrote another tune entitled "Whiskey Welcome Again." \Vhen I visited Blair AtholI in 1997,1sawNeil Gow's fiddle and also was given a private viewing of Gow's famousoil portrait.
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I learnedthis Irish hornpipe from Linda Baker, a tradirional musician in the Albany, NY area.
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This is a famoussong about a lovestruckyoung man and the object of his yearning Ulster. This tune also occurs in common-time versions. Incidentally, my mother was born in County Down.
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Tn-e TRÀVeLetq" Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser Travelers are what the Irish call the Gypsies,who used to roam the countryside in brightly painted horse-drawnwagonsand were often tinkers by trade.
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser This Mixolydian tune is named after Garrett Barry, who was a blind lrish minstrel. With this piece, the chief technical consideration is the rhythmic coordination of the numerous hammersand pulls. J . = 1 1 6m .
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser version, and then I first heard this Scottish jig on a harp record by Allison Kinnaird in a slow on the slower based is version This pace. h""rd Johnny Cunninghanifiadle it ât quite a brisk s.tting. You can find ii in Kerr's Merry Melodies.
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This Scottish jig can only be describedas delightful. When I first heard it, it seemedlike I had known the tune forever, so natural and graceful did rhe melody sound to me. This version comes from the New EnglandFiddler'sRepertory.There is even a trand of Scorch named after this tune.
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser I came acrossthis pretty rune in ,il th. ô rÀJrpr to G ;È;;i"g ""ai,ià"^f iriri*uri.). ËËi';? rvi,ft tn" fourth finger on the fifth
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rraait;;atilfrtii "Gary "perpetual" tunes that does This four-part Mixolydian tune, like Owen," is one of those not end through the usual processof melodic resolution - therefore an ending has been provided.
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Traditional lris Arr. G. Weise This tune, also named "Father O' Flynn" after a nineteenth.century Irish priest who also collectedtunes,has the gentle,rolling quality characrerisric of so many jigs.
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser I was rold that the title of this tune refersto the Irish pastime of barroom brawling. The first "BetsyFrom Pike." It's in O Neill's Mr.rsicof Ireland. part reminds me of the folk song ). =104 GÆ ta
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser I first heard this tune played by Roy Wall of the Broken String Band on the tinwhistle, and subsequentlyfound it in O'Neill's Masic of lreland.
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This one must be quite old, as it can be found in The BuntingCollection(1792), and also occurs in numerousvariations,which is usuallya sign of a tune's antiquity. The versionhere is based on a setting I heardplayedby flatpicking grearNorman Blake.
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Traditional Irish Arr. G. Weiser This was composed by S.W. Rickett, who ran the country's first travelling circus. Rickett would dance a hornpipe to this tune while standing on top of a galloping horse.
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