20 Celtic Tunes for the Bowed Psaltery
Twenty traditional Celtic tunes arranged for the bowed psaltery or other C instrument such as the recorder, penny whistle, fiddle. Some songs are in the original key in addition to a version transposed into the key of C which is easier for the bowed psaltery.
Tunes include:
The Ash Grove –Wales
Avenging & Bright – Ireland
Beauty in Tears – Turlough O’Carolan
Blind Mary – Turlough O’Carolan
Carolan’s Draught – Turlough O’Carolan
Carrickfergus – Ireland
Come By the Hills – Scotland
Fanny Power – Turlough O’Carolan
Farewell to Whiskey – Ireland
Galician Waltz – Galicia
Jezebel Carol –Isle of Man
Kathren Oggie – Scotland
Kesh Jig – Ireland
Lady Owen’s Delight – Wales
Lark in the Morning – Ireland
Mist Covered Mountains of Home – Scotland
The Parting Glass – Ireland
Roslin Castle – Scotland
Si Beag Si Mor – Turlough O’Carolan
Táimse Im’ Choladh – Ireland
32 pages, printed on 24lb paper with a full color glossy cover. Copyright 2014, published by International Digital Book publishing Industries, Florida & Boston.
Book 2
Early Music for the Bowed Psaltery
30 compositions from the 13th to the 18th centuries – solos, duets, trios, quartets, & rounds arranged for any treble instrument such as the flute, recorder, violin, but especially the bowed psaltery.
This is European music from the Medieval, Renaissance, & early Baroque Periods.
Songs include:
13th Century
Como Poden – Cantigas de Santa Marie 166
Sterla do Dia – Cantigas de Santa Marie 100
Sumer Is Icumen In
14th Century
Unto Us is Born a Son – Moosburg Gradual
Veni, Veni, Emanuel
15th Century
Lauda
16th Century
All in a Garden Green – William Byrd
Ballet du Roy I – Michael de Praetorius
Ballet du Roy II & III – Michael de Praetorius
Bell qui tiens ma vie – Thoinot Arbeau
Branle de l’Officiele – Thoinot Arbeau
Branle de la Torche – Michael de Praetorius
Canon – Thomas Tallis
Carman’s Whistle – William Byrd
Come Live with Me – from The Merry Wives of Windsor
Fortune my Foe – William Byrd
Gaillarde – Claude Gervaise
Greensleeves – Henry Tudor, King Henry VII
Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home – John Dowland
On This Day the Earth Shall Ring
Where Griping Grief – Richard Edwards
17th Century
Hold Thy Peace – from Twelfth Night
We Be Soldiers Three – from A Winter’s Tale
18th Century
Gathering Peascods – Playford
Goddesses –Playford
Hornpipe from Abdelazer – Henry Purcell
Jenny Pluck Pears – Playford
Newcastle – Playford
Rondo from Abdelazer – Henry Purcell
Sellenger’s Round –Playford
Also Some Notes on playing the Music
AND COMING SOON …
for the bowed psaltery:
FOLK MUSIC &
CLASSICAL MUSIC,
as well as other music arranged for the
flute/recorder, mountain dulcimer, & bowed dulcimer.
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