Celtic Songs And Slow Airs For Mountain Dulcimer

In folk tradition, stories of love lost, betrayal, jealousy, conflict, emigration, and the supernatural are often immortalized in songs of many traditions, demonstrating that singing has been a universal vehicle for the human condition. The criteria for this wonderful collection of prose and melodies is from Celtic traditions that have been with us for hundreds of years. These compositions have been arranged so that each will work both as an air and as a song. Includes access to online audio containing all of the selections in the book.

CONTENTS

• A St¢r mo Chro¡ [Treasure of My Heart]
• Banks Of Claudy, The
• Beauty In Tears
• Blind Mary
• Bonny Light Horseman
• Caoineadh an Spailp¡n [The Lament of the Spalpeen]
• Courting Is a Pleasure
• Down By The Sally Gardens
• Down by the Sally Gardens [a.k.a. The Maid of the Mourne Shore]
• amonn a' Chnoic [Ned of the Hill]
• Farewell To Tarwathie
• Flower of Magherally, The
• Flowers Of The Forest
• Gabhaim Molta Br¡de [A Prayer for St. Bridget]
• Heroes Of St. Valery
• Lowlands of Holland, The
• MacPherson's Farewell
• Maid of Coolmore, The
• Maid of Mourne Shore
• Martha, The Flower Of Sweet Strabane
• Mary's Dream
• Mo Ghile Mear [My Spirited Love]
• Month Of January
• Parting Glass, The
• Planxty Connor
• Praties, The
• Separation of the Soul from the Body
• S¡ Beag S¡ M¢r [Little Fairy Hill and Big Fairy Hill]
• Sliabh na mBan [The Women's Mountain]
• Snows They Melt the Soonest, The
• Star Of The County Down
• Such a Parcel of Rogues
• When I Was on Horseback'Melody Arrangement
• Will Ye No Come Back Again?
• Ye Banks & Braes