Irish music for guitar
Traditional music, song-airs and O'Carolan tunes. Music notation and guitar tab. Pieces range from from very easy to recital standard. Recording included
From the Sean Nos - the unaccompanied style of singing f rom the west coost, with its Arab/Indian overtones - to the Anglo-Irish ballad tradition and the magnificent art of Irish harpers, Ireland yields a rich harvest to those willing to undergo its musical spell.
Many f orms of music dating back centuries have survived in Ireland due to its geographical position on the f ringe of Europe and also because of the traditional element in cultural and other matters.
Apart f rom adding to the repertoire, the arranger hopes that this volume of Irish pieces will also stimulate the player's curiosity so that he or she may want to find out more about the many facets of Irish music.
The completion of this work would have been long and tortuous without the heip of Simon Toylor who, as well asperforming all of the pieces on the accompanying CD, found the time and energy to straighten me out on f ingerings and many of the practicalities of writing for the guitar.
Thanks are also due to Douglas Gunn, an expert on Carolan's music, who himself arranged many Carolan pieces for a variety of instruments. Andrew Shiels - himself a composer and musician - expertly looked after the music-typesetting and helped out in so many other ways.
Do feel f ree to experiment with the music; many pieces canbe played using different techniques, different emphasis and repeots moy be adlibbed too, I've given guidelines, but it's upto you to make these wonderful tunes your very own !
John Loesberg Cork, Ireland 2005
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