Description

Irish Folk Tunes for Flute presents 71 superb Irish traditional tunes, including jigs, reels, polkas, hornpipes, slow airs, and pieces by Carolan and are suitable for flute, recorder or tin whistle. Experienced folk musician Patrick Steinbach provides an excellent introduction explaining style and traditional ornamentation as well as notes on each of the tunes. The edition also contains recordings of all the tunes for free download.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Johnny’s Wedding
3. Cooley’s Reel
4. The Musical Priest
5. Molly McCarthy
6. Drowsy Maggie
7. Within a Mile of Dublin
8. Peter Street
9. The Wind That Shakes the Barley
10. Dublin Lasses
11. Red Haired Maid
12. The Lilting Banshee
13. Road to Lisdoonvarna
14. Tripping Up the Stairs
15. Morrison Jig
16. Blarney Pilgrim
17. Three Little Drummers
18. Runaway Jig
19. Basket of Turf
20. Trip to Sligo
21. The Dancing Master
22. The Fair Haired Boy
23. Dublin Street
24. Dever the Dancer
25. Comb Your Hair and Curl It
26. Drops of Brandy
27. Spatter the Dew
28. Port an Deorai
29. Humours of Whiskey
30. Kerry Polka
31. Ballyhoura Mountains
32. Dennis Murphy’s Polka
33. Ballydesmond Polka
34. Tom Vicar’s Polka
35. John Ryan’s Polka
36. Battle of Aughrim
37. Brian Boru’s March
38. Lord Mayo
39. Marching to Drogheda
40. Sailor’s Hornpipe
41. Higgins’ Hornpipe
42. Fisher’s Hornpipe
43. Derry Hornpipe
44. The Woods of Kilkenny
45. The Kildare Fancy
46. Carolan: Sheebeg and Sheemore
47. Carolan: Planxty Lady Wrixon
48. Carolan: Princess Royal
49. Carolan: Planxty Irwin
50. Carolan: Fanny Power
51. Carolan: Planxty Hugh O’Donnell
52. Carolan: Planxty Kelly
53. Carolan: Blind Mary
54. Carolan: Captain O’Kain
55. Carolan: Lament for Terence MacDonough
56. As I Roved Out
57. The Star of the County Down
58. The Blacksmith
59. The Lark in the Morning
60. Carrickfergus
61. Follow Me up to Carlow
62. The Foggy Dew
63. Sally Gardens
64. Johnny I Hardly Knew Yeh
65. Roddy McCorley
66. In Dublin’s Fair City
67. The Spanish Lady
68. Spancil Hill
69. Whiskey in the Jar
70. Southwind
71. Summertime
72. You’ll Never Deceive Me Again
73. Notes on the Tunes
74. CD Track List