Publisher: Mel Bay
Music from Historical Collections

Before the 1700s, Celtic music enjoyed a long oral music tradition of learning and memorizing tunes without the aid of pen and paper. The pages of this anthology are filled with the rich heritage of Celtic music tucked away in historical collections from the late 1700s and 1800s.

This book is designed for advanced beginners to intermediate harp players with lever folk harps (or pedal harps) that have thirty-three strings or less with G (one and a half octaves below middle C) as their lowest note, in the keys of F, C, G, D and A. The tunes are appropriate for nylon or wire-strung harps. Two songs require lever flips.


Contents:

• A Spinning Wheel Tune  
• Awake The Harp’s Slumber  
• Belladrum House  
• Blackwater Foot  
• Bobbity Dawly  
• Cawdor Fair & Captain Kennedy Medley  
• Chorus Jig  
• Connor Macareavy  
• Coupar Angus Jigg  
• Cummilum  
• Edinburgh Castle  
• Fire On The Mountains  
• Gardner’s Hornpipe  
• Girls Have You Seen George  
• Good Night And Joy Be With You  
• How Sad I Am - Dan Deirg - Turn Back The Cows Duncan Medley  
• Jackson’s Dream  
• Lough Allen  
• Love For Ever  
• Merry Today  
• Miss Margaret Skelton’s Jig  
• Miss McReady Of Perston’s Favourite  
• Miss Montgomrie Of Annick Lodge Strathspey  
• Miss Nancie Low’s Reel  
• Mr Oswald’s Reel  
• Munster Jig 

and many more