Glenn Weiser: Celtic Guitar Encyclopedia
Fingerstyle Guitar Edition
Fingerpick Guitar (GTR)
Glenn Weiser: Celtic Guitar Encyclopedia
Fingerstyle Guitar Edition
Fingerpick Guitar (GTR)
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About
This comprehensive book contains over 100 Celtic tunes arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. This edition is derived from a collection of nearly 300 arrangements Glenn Weiser has created over the last twenty years. The book is divided into 4 sections: 1) airs, marches and waltzes 2) hornpipes, jigs and reels 3) tunes from the Bunting collection 4) harp tunes of Turlough O'Carolan. All are in either standard or dropped-D tuning, and can be played on either nylon or steel string guitars. All of these melodies are accompanied with brief historical notes. Written in standard notation and tablature. Intermediate in difficulty.
Contents
- Alexander's Hornpipe
- All Alive
- All Through The Night
- Angus Campell
- Anne Macdermott Roe
- Believe Me If All These Endearing Young Charms
- Captain Sudley
- Carolan's Cottage
- Carolan's Fancy
- Castles In The Air
- Cherish The Ladies
- Childgrove
- Clark's Hornpipe
- Cock Up Your Beaver
- Colonel Palmer
- Come Under My Plaidie
- Cooley's Reel
- Dainty Davy
- Delahanty's Hornpipe
- Denis O'conor (Second Air)
- Down By The Sally
- Gardens
- Eileen Aroon
- Father Tom's Wager
- Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
- For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name
- Give Me Your Hand
- Hugh O'neill's Lament
- John Drury (First Air)
- John Kelly
- John O'reilly
- Kean O'hara (Third Air)
- King Of The Fairies
- Larry O'gaff
- Londonderry Air
- Lord Gordon's Reel
- Macpherson's Lament
- Madam Cole
- Mary O'neill
- Maurice O'connor (Second Air)
- Miss Macdermott
- Miss Monahan's Reel
- Molly Halfpenny
- Neil Gow's Lament For His Second Wife
- Nell Flaherty's Drake
- O'keefe's Slide
- Ode To Whiskey
- Old Ireland, A Long Farewell
- Peter Street
- Petronella
- Pigeon On The Gate
- Pipe On The Hob
- Planxty O'carolan
- Planxty Scott
- Princess Augusta
- Saint Patrick's Day
- Scollay's Reel
- Scottish Farewell
- Summer Is Coming
- Swallowtail Jig
- The Atholl Highlanders
- The Banks Of Inverness
- The Battle Of Aughrim
- The Battle Of Waterloo
- The Boys Of Wexford
- The Brown Coffin
- The Burnt Old Man
- The Connaughtman's Rambles
- The Coolin
- The Dawning Of The Day
- The Earl Of Dalhousie's Happy Return
- The Fairies' Hornpipe
- The Fairies' Reel
- The Foggy Dew
- The Gentle Maiden
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- The Good Natured Man
- The Joy Of My Life
- The Joyce's Country Greeting
- The Lament For Terence Macdonough
- The Lark In The Clear Air
- The Lark In The Morning
- The Lass Of Patie's Mill
- The Mooncoin Jig
- The Morpeth Rant
- The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre
- The Mullingar Races
- The Old Resting Chair
- The Parting Glass
- The Pigtown Fling
- The Piper Through The Meadow Straying
- The Quindaro Hornpipe
- The Rakes Of Kildare
- The Rock And The Wee Pickle Tow
- The Rocks Of The Brae
- The Rose Tree
- The Shepherd's Wife
- The Silver Spire
- The Star Of Munster
- The Trip To Sligo
- The Two William Davises
- The Wild Geese
- The Wind That Shakes The Barley
- The Wise Maid
- Thomas Burke