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Apples in Winter - jig
The Bag of Spuds - reel
Ballydesmond Polka
Behind the Bush in the Garden - jig
The Bird's Nest - reel
Boys of Blue Hill - polka
The Boys of the Lough - reel
The Boys of the Town - jig
The Broken Pledge - reel
Bundle and Go - jig
The Carraroe - jig
The Cliffs of Moher - jig
The Concert Reel
The Congress Reel
Cooley's Reel
The Cow That Ate the Blanket - jig
Cronin's Rambles - hornpipe
Delaney's Drummers - jig
The Dram Shell - reel
The Dunmore Lasses - reel
The Earl's Chair - reel
The Eavesdropper - jig
The Echo - hornpipe
Fermoy Lasses - reel
The Fort of Kincora - polka
The Galway - hornpipe
The Galway Rambler - reel
Glass of Beer - reel
The Golden Keyboard - reel
The Gravel Walk - reel
Green Forest Jig
The High Reel
The Humours of Ballyloughlin - jig
The Humours of Tulla - reel
The Hunter's Purse - reel
Hunting the Boyne - reel
Julia Delaney - reel
Jerry Daly's Hornpipe
John Brennan's - reel
The Kerry Reel
Killarney Boys of Pleasure - reel
The Kinard Polka
Knocknagow - reel
Knotted Cord - reel
Lad O'Beirne's - reel
Lark on the Strand - jig
Larry Redican's - slip jig
Leitrim Fancy - jig
The Limerick Lasses - reel
The Lonesome Jig
Maggie in the Woods - polka
Maid Behind the Bar - reel
Maid of Ardagh - polka
Mary McMahon's - reel
Master Crowley's - reel
Matt the Thrasher - reel
Maudabawn Chapel - reel
McDermott's - reel
McMahon's - reel
Merrily Kiss the Quaker - jig
A Merry Christmas - jig
The Millpond - jig
Miss Monaghan's - reel
The Mullingar Races - reel
Murphy's - hornpipe
The Musical Priest - reel
Nine Points of Roguery - reel
O'Keefe's Slide
The Old Copper Plate - reel
Out on the Ocean - jig
Paddy Clancy's - jig
Paddy Fahy's Reel
Pigeon on the Gate - reel
Pipe on the Hob - jig
Pretty Girls of Mayo - reel
The Rakes of Kildare - jig
Reel
Road to Lisdoonvarna - jig
Sally Gardens - reel
Sean Ryan's - jig
Sean Ryan's Jig
Ships are Sailing - reel
Silver Spear - reel
The Skylark - reel
Slieve Russel - jig
Snug in a Blanket - jig
Spike Island Lassies - reel
Sportin' Pat - reel
Star of Munster - reel
The Steeplechase - reel
Sweet Cup of Tea - reel
Tamlin - reel
Tar Road to Sligo - jig
Tatter Jack Walsh - jig
Tom Doherty's - reel
Trip to Athlone - jig
Trip To Durrow - reel
The White Petticoat - jig
Willie Coleman's - jig
The Wise Maid - reel
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Transcriptions
Included are a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of musicians playing keyboard accordion, Irish button box or concertina. I have chosen to include the latter two because of their likeness to the keyboard accordion; all are similar sounding, free reed instruments on which ornamentation is approached in a similar fashion.
On Keyboard accordion:
Jimmy Keane
Hunting the Boyne from TheGreen Fields of America,
Live in Concert (Green Linnet, CSIF 1096)
Larry Redican's Slip Jig from Moloney, O'Connell and Keane,
Kilkelly (Green Linnet, SIF 1072)
Phil Cunningham
The Limerick Lasses from Relativity (Green Linnet, GLCD 1059)
Alan Kelly
Matt the Thrasher and Pretty Girls of Mayo from Out of the Blue
(Kells Music, KM-9511)
Ian Lowthian
The Dram Shell from Catriona Macdonald and Ian Lowthian, opus blue (Acoustic Radio, ARAD CD 103)
Karen Tweed
The Humours of Tulla from The Silver Spire
(Dave Mallinson Publications, DMPCD9402)
The Old Copper Plate from Drops of Springwater
(Dave Mallinson Publications, DMPC9401)
John Williams,
The Lonesome Jig from John Williams (Green Linnet, GLCD 1157)
On button box:
Joe Burke
The Fort of Kincora from The Tailor's Choice (Green Linnet, SIF 1045)
Jackie Daly
The Bag of Spuds from Patrick Street, All in Good Time
(Green Linnet, CSIF 1125)
Joe Derrane
The White Petticoat from Give Us Another (Green Linnet, GLCD 1149)
Tom Doherty
Sweet Cup of Tea from Take the Bull by the Horns (Green Linnet, CSIF 1131)
James Keane,
Knocknagow from That's the Spirit (Green Linnet, GLCD 1138)
Billy McComiskey
Tom Doherty's from Trian (Flying Fish, FF 70586)
Paddy O'Brien (of Minneapolis, MN),
The Bird's Nest from Stranger at the Gate (Green Linnet, GLCD 1091)
Martin O'Connor,
Delaney's Drummers from The Connachtman's Rambles
(Mulligan Music, LUN 027)
Johnny O'Leary
Boys of Blue Hill from Johnny O'Leary of Sliabh Luachra: Dance Music from the Cork & Kerry Border (The Lilliput Press)
Sharon Shannon
Bundle and Go from Sharon Shannon (Philo, C PH 1153)
John Whelan
Trip to Athlone from From the Heart (Oenoke Records, OR 0001)
Tony MacMahon
Untitled Reel from Noel Hill, Tony MacMahon, I gCnoc na Grai
(Gael &Linn CEF 114)
On concertina:
Chris Sherburn
The Concert Reel from Chris Sherburn, Denny Bartley, Last Night's Fun!
(Sound Out Music, SOM 002)
Noel Hill
Untitled Reel from Noel Hill, Tony MacMahon, I gCnoc na Grai
(Gael &Linn CEF 114)
John Williams,
The Lonesome Jig from John Williams (Green Linnet, GLCD 1157)
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CD Contents
Included with the book is a CD with the following tunes played exactly as written.For instructional purposes, the tunes are played slower than usual.
1) Master Crowley's / The High Reel / The Old Copper Plate (reels)
2) Slieve Russel / The Cow That Ate the Blanket / The Eavesdropper (jigs)
3) The Kerry Reel / John Brennan's (reels)
4) Cronin's Rambles / The Galway (hornpipes)
5) Glass of Beer / Galway Rambler / Sportin' Pat (reels)
6) Snug in a Blanket / A Merry Christmas (jigs)
7) The Congress Reel / Mary McMahon's (reels)
8) Jerry Daly's Hornpipe / Echo (hornpipes)
9) Lad O'Beirne's / Pigeon on the Gate (reels)
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