By David DiGiuseppe.
From Apples in Winter to The Wise Maid, this collection of Irish jigs, reels, and polkas provides beginning to advanced players with a wealth of traditional Irish music for solo keyboard accordion. This collection includes a number of tunes transcribed from recordings of not only the keyboard accordion, but also the Irish button box and concertina. Herein too are many of the author's own arrangements. Some of the stellar players whose work appears here are: Jimmy Keane, Phil Cunningham, Alan Kelly, Joe Burke, Jackie Daly, Tom Doherty, Chris Sherburn, Sharon Shannon, and Tony MacMahon. With a basic guide to fingering and rhythm chord symbols included, this book will allow even the novice accordionist to join in a traditional Irish session. The enclosed CD features the author's performance of medleys including 21 of the book's 100 selections.
Contents include:
A Merry Christmas - jig
Apples in Winter - jig
Ballydesmond Polka
Behind the Bush in the Garden - jig
Boys of Blue Hill - polka
Bundle and Go - jig
Cooley's Reel
Cronin's Rambles - hornpipe
Delaney's Drummers - jig
Fermoy Lasses - reel
Glass of Beer - reel
Green Forest Jig
Hunting the Boyne - reel
Jerry Daly's Hornpipe
John Brennan's - reel
Julia Delaney - reel
Killarney Boys of Pleasure - reel
Knocknagow - reel
Knotted Cord - reel
Lad O'Beirne's - reel
Lark on the Strand - jig
Larry Redican's - slip jig
Leitrim Fancy - 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
McDermitt's - reel
McMahon's - reel
Merrily Kiss the Quaker - jig
Miss Monaghan's - reel
Murphy's - hornpipe
Nine Points of Roguery - reel
O'Keefe's Slide
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
Reel
Road to Lisdoonvarna - jig
Sally Gardens - reel
Sean Ryan's - jig
Sean Ryan's Jig
Ships are Sailing - reel
Silver Spear - reel
Slieve Russel - jig
Snug in a Blanket - jig
Spike Island Lassies - reel
Sportin' Pat - reel
Star of Munster - reel
Sweet Cup of Tea - reel
Tamlin - reel
Tar Road to Sligo - jig
Tatter Jack Walsh - jig
The Bag of Spuds - reel
The Bird's Nest - reel
The Boys of the Lough - reel
The Boys of the Town - jig
The Broken Pledge - reel
The Carraroe - jig
The Cliffs of Mother - jig
The Concert Reel
The Congress Reel
The Cow That Ate the Blanket - jig
The Dram Shell - reel
The Dunmore Lasses - reel
The Earl's Chair - reel
The Eavesdropper - jig
The Echo - hornpipe
The Fort of Kincora - polka
The Galway - hornpipe
The Galway Rambler - reel
The Golden Keyboard - reel
The Gravel Walk - reel
The High Reel
The Humours of Ballyloughlin - jig
The Humours of Tulla - reel
The Hunter's Purse - reel
The Kerry Reel
The Kinard Polka
The Limerick Lasses - reel
The Lonesome Jig
The Millpond - jig
The Mullingar Races - reel
The Musical Priest - reel
The Old Copper Plate - reel
The Rakes of Kildare - jig
The Skylark - reel
The Steeplechase - reel
The White Petticoat - jig
The Wise Maid - reel
Tom Doherty's - reel
Trip to Athlone - jig
Trip to Durrow - reel
Willie Coleman's - jig
