Mel Bay

Arranger: Craig Duncan
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Fiddle (Violin)
Level: Intermediate

This book presents 50 traditional fiddle tunes in a variety of styles. The material includes Irish jigs, reels and hornpipes, Scottish tunes and airs, and tunes from the United States and Canada. Many of the tunes include the melody in standard notation, followed by a variation which includes common ways of playing the tune.

Each of the tunes includes the fiddle melody with guitar accompaniment. Accompanying recordings performed at medium-slow tempos assist in learning and practicing. Includes access to online audio.

Song List:

• An Comhra Donn/The Brown Box
• Boys of the Blue Hill
• Blackberry Blossom
• The Blarney Pilgrim
• Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine - March
• Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine - Hornpipe
• Bonaparte's Retreat
• The Burning of the Piper's Hut
• Craigellachie Lassies
• Carolan's Draught
• Cluck Old Hen
• Dennis Murphy's Polka
• The Downfall of Paris
• Far From Home
• Florida Blues
• Foxhunter's Jig
• Green Fields of America
• Guilderoy
• The Ivy Leaf Reel
• Jackson's Morning Brush
• John Ryan's Polka
• The Kesh Jig
• The Lark in the Morning
• The Little House Around the Corner
• The Maid Behind the Bar
• Langstrom's Pony
• My Darling Asleep
• The Mug of Brown Ale
• Margaret's Waltz
• Missouri Mud
• Morrison's Jig
• The New Mown Meadows
• Niel Gow's Lament
• North Carolina Breakdown
• Over the Moor to Maggie
• Over the Waterfall
• Red Haired Boy
• Reel de Lapin/The Rabbit's Leap
• Rickett's Hornpipe
• The Rights of Man
• St. Anne's Reel
• The Silver Spear
• The Silver Spire
• Smash the Windows
• The Smoky Chimney
• Stony Point
• Susannah Gal
• Swallowtail Jig
• The Teetotaler's Reel/Temperance Reel
• Whiskey Before Breakfast