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