Mel Bay Publications
Weiser - Celtic Guitar Encyclopedia - Fingerstyle Guitar
Level : Intermediate
Standard Notation and Tab
Code No. MB96985
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.
Tunes:
- A Soft Mild Morning
- Alexander's Hornpipe
- All Alive
- All Through The Night
- Angus Campell
- Carolan's Cottage
- Carolan's Fancy
- Castles In The Air
- Cherish The Ladies
- 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
- 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
and many many more
