Irish Fiddle Solos: 64 Pieces for Violin Book with CD

Author: Pete Cooper.

This collection includes many favorite Irish fiddle tunes. Some are easy to play, others more challenging. The bowing techniques, ornamentation and other aspects of playing style summarized in the introduction will be familiar to readers of Pete’s earlier book, the Complete Irish Fiddle Player, as will source musicians like Julia Clifford, Tommy Peoples, Lucy Farr, John Doherty and Padraig O’Keeffe. Here though, instead of proceeding in ‘fiddle method’ style from simpler to more complex tunes, regional repertoire and styles are explored. Grouped in sets for performance, the tunes from any one tradition can be of varying levels of difficulty. Less experienced players may find sets 5, 6 and 29, for example, quite approachable, as well as the first reel in set 14 and the second single jig in set 15. All tunes included on companion CD.

Contents include:
Airs: Coming Home
Airs: Coulin
Airs: Fanny Power
Airs: Lament For O'Donnell
Airs: Lament for Owen Roe O'Neill
Airs: Michael O'Connor
Airs: Paddy's Rambles Through the Park
Airs: Princess Royal
Double Jigs: Trip to Sligo
Double Jigs: Bank of Turf
Double Jigs: Cliffs of Moher
Double Jigs: Coach Road to Sligo
Double Jigs: Coleman's Cross
Double Jigs: Donnybrook Fair
Double Jigs: Humours of Ennistymon
Double Jigs: Kilfenora Jig
Double Jigs: Tom Billy's Favourite
Double Jigs: Wandering Minstrel
Germans: Francie Mooney's
Germans: Roise Bheag Roise Moire's
Hornpipes: Galway Bay Hornpipe
Hornpipes: Home Brew
Hornpipes: Julia Clifford's
Hornpipes: McGivney's Hornpipe
Hornpipes: Plains of Boyle
Hornpipes: Sean Healey's
Polkas: Ballydesmond Polka Nr. 3
Polkas: Ballyhoura Mountains
Polkas: Gullane Polka
Polkas: Knocknaboul Polka
Polkas: Lucy Farr's Polka
Polkas: Toormore Polka Nr. 1
Polkas: Toormore Polka Nr. 2
Reels: Andy Davy's
Reels: Boys of Malin
Reels: Christmas Eve
Reels: Craig's Pipes
Reels: Dinkey's Reel
Reels: Farewell To Miltown
Reels: Fergal O'Gara
Reels: Fermoy Lasses
Reels: Flogging Reel
Reels: Glory Reel
Reels: Gravel Walks
Reels: Green Fields of Ros Beigh
Reels: Martin Wynne's No. 1
Reels: No. 2
Reels: No. 3
Reels: Oak Tree
Reels: Over the Moor to Maggie
Reels: Porthole of the Kelp
Reels: Pullet & the Cock
Reels: Sligo Maid
Reels: Star of Munster
Reels: Swinging on the Gate
Single Jig or Slide: Dan O'Keeffe's Nr. 1
Single Jig or Slide: Dan O'Keeffe's Nr. 2
Single Jig or Slide: Lonesome Jig
Single Jig or Slide: Music on the Wind
Single Jig or Slide: Nell O'Sullivan's
Single Jig or Slide: Scully Casey's
Slip Jigs: Dusty Miller
Slip Jigs: Fig for a Kiss
Slip Jigs: O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick