• Publisher Code: MUSOMB84
  • Title: Irish Session Tunes
  • Subtitle: The Orange Book
  • Personality: Brid Cranitch
  • Publisher: Ossian Publications
  • Instrumentation: All Instruments
  • Product Type: Book and CD
  • Language: English
  • Pages: 45
  • Year of Publication: 2005
  • ISBN: 9781900428774

    • The fourth book in this series, the orange book contains more than one hundred Irish dance tunes and airs. It contains a varied selection of widely played and lesser known tunes, divided into different dance rhythms butpredominantly reels to reflect that this is the fourth book in the series and is a slightly higher difficulty. These tunes have been sorted, along with similar songs, into sets to be played at Irish sessions. The range of thetunes is particularly suitable for the fiddle, but can be used on other instruments. Includes 100 jigs, reels, polkas and hornpipes, such as: Over the Moor · Johnny Leary's · Liffey Banks · Far from Home · Boys of Bluehill · GreenGates · Dublin Porter · Lilies of the Field · Ships Are Sailing · Lucy Campbell's · Maids on the Green · The Mist Covered Mountain · and more. The matching CD containes the tunes in the book and features Sheila Garry on fiddle andBrid Cranitch on keyboard.

    Contents:

  • Bird In The Bush
  • Blackberry Blossom
  • Brendan Mulhaire's
  • Cailleach An Airgid
  • Connaughtman's Rambles
  • Dillon's Fancy
  • Dowd's No.9
  • Far From Home
  • Feargal O'Gara
  • Fess Reel
  • Flowers Of Edinburgh
  • Gap Of Wind
  • Have A Drink With Me
  • Jack Maguire's
  • Johnny Leary's
  • Kelly's Castle
  • Kiss Me Kate
  • Mac Fadden's
  • Maid Of Mount Sisco
  • Over The Moor
  • Rambling Pitchfork
  • Sailor On The Rock
  • Shetland
  • Tansey's Favourite
  • The Copperplate
  • The Maids Of Castlebar
  • The Mist Covered Mountains
  • The Temple House
  • Volunteer
  • Woman In The House