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The soldier's joy

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The bridal jig
Although this tune is also known in Ireland, it's almost certainly of Scottish origin. According to Jack Campin, it dates back as far as to the late 17th or early 18th Century.

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The flight of the earls
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: F
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 22.11.2002

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Pigtown fling
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Fling
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
The tune - the way I learned it long ago - includes a 9 bar section which, of course, makes it rather tricky to dance to.

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Lord McDonald's reel
This was the first Scottish tune I arranged. Maybe the "bagpipe bourdon" fiddle parts are a bit too much ;-)
  O'Neill's version of the tune includes only the first two parts - in reversed order.

The midi file uses a banjo sound for the solo guitar part. This was mainly because I got tired of using exactly the same sounds for all the folkband midis, but Lord MacDonald's real actually does suit the guitarbanjo particularly well.

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Danny boy
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Also known as "Londonderry Air". In Norway this tune is occasionally called "Queen Maud's Favourite".

I used a cello rather than the double bass for the midi.
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Amazing grace (easy arrangement)
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: ?
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
I know Amazing grace (or "New Britain" as the tune was originally called) is from the USA, not Scotland, but it has been so much associated with Scottish bagpipe music recently that I just couldn't resist it ;-) My arrangement is a bit - well - dubious, so it shouldn't be played in public unless either everybody in the audience is well and truly drunk or you're a bunch of really 'dorable kids and the audience consists mainly of parents and old aunties.
  The violin parts in the first half can be simplified considerably by redistributing the drone notes and ommitting the grace notes. It's much more fun to play the way I've written it, though.

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Morpeth rant
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: Rant
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002

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The gay Gordons
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: Jig
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002

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Hartigan's fancy

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Paddy O'Rafferty
Everybody's heard about Paddy O'Rafferty, but how does the tune actually go?
    This is Francis O'Neill's version.
  
  I think this is the most "authentic" Irish folkband arrngement I've made so far. Everybody but the rhythm guitar hangs on to the tune as well as they can.

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The spey in spate
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: Reel
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
The second fiddle pretends it's a mandolin in the first part. I have no idea how difficult this'll be for the fiddler, but it ought to be fun at least.

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Bolt the door
In England they call this "Jack's Health" and play it as a set dance.
  I tried to add some ornament signs to the flute part, but gave up. Just play as many trills, falls, rolls etc. you possibly can manage to cram into the part, OK?

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The sailor's hornpipe
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: Hornpipe
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Perhaps the best known hornpipe in the world. Seems the band's got a bit confused in this arrangement. Apparently the lead fiddler has learned a slightly different version of the tune than the flutist and guitarist. Oh well... ;-)

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Hunting the hare
This was the first folkband arrangement I did. I used a lot of double stops in the second fiddle parts of my early arrangements. Francis O'Neill includes a slip jig called "Hunting the hare" both in "Dance music of Ireland" and "Music of Ireland". There doesn't seem to be any connection to this tune, though.

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The wind that shakes the barley

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A Donegal mazurka
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Mazurka
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
The mazurka might not be the first thing people would associate with Ireland, but the dance is in fact well known on the green island. This one is from Ulster.

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The banks of Inverness
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Reel
  • Added: 22.11.2002

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The drunken sailor
Good old "What shall we do with the drunken sailor" the O'Neill way!
    It started off as a rather standard Folkband arrangement, but - well I guess you can say it got a bit out of hand.
    All Folkband arrangements are made so that you can leave out parts without harming the music too much. In this particular case maybe you should leave out an instrument or two.  There's nothing wrong with playing all seven parts, they are all very good and interesting (if I may say so myself ;-) and they fit nicely together. It's just that there's so much going on at the same time that the full package might get a bit overvhelming for the poor listener.
  
  The solo guitar part uses a rather unusual tuning: DGDGAD (tune the two highest and the two lowest strings down one note. I was really going to avoid that kind of stuff at Folkband, but in this case tere was no way around it. The tune just didn't work neither with standard tuning nor any of the more common alternatives.

The midi file plays through the piece twice. The first time it's pretty standard, the second time the instrumentation keeps changing (kind'a à la The Chieftains). This is partly to get some more variation, but mainly to display some of the various instrument combinations possible with the arrangement.
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The fairy dance
One of the charming aspects of session playing is that while the musicians might agree on which tune to play, they don't neccesarily agree exactly how that particular tune goes.
  In this case the lead fiddle part is the tune as O'Neill published it, the lead guitar plays a more common modern variant, while the flute tries to strike some middle ground between them.
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The gallowglass

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Mary, young and fair
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: Emin
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
I tried to make the arrangement as simple as possible to allow this too-beautiful-to-be-real tune come to its right. "Simple" does not mean easy, though.

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Scarborough fair
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: Dmin
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 22.11.2002

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Mrs. Jamieson's favourite
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Beautiful, isn't it?

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King of the fairies
A variant of "Gilderoy".
  According to John Chambers, Oberon, the king of fairies himself turns up if you play this tune three times during a session. Better not try that unless you have a really hot party for him to join...
  The flute part goes a bit to high for an Irish flute, but please feel free to transpose it down an octave if you like!
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Styggen på låven
This is a combination of two different arrangements. The clarinet and second fiddle comes from an arrangement I made for Lakselv Trekkspillklubb (Lakselv Accordion Society). The solo guitar part was something I had to improvise in a tight spot once. You see, me and my choir had this nice little singalong around a camp fire, and then suddenly some of them wnted to dance! It actually came out pretty well, don't you think?
  Nowadays I usually play this tune on the blues harmonica(!) anyway.
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Hanen stend på stabburshella
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Norway
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: ?
  • Added: 22.11.2002
Everybody in Norway knows this cute little catch. I suppose the rhythm section risks dying of boredom, but that is a common occupational hazard for bassists and rhythm guitarists all over the world. ;-)

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Biddy's wedding

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The peeler's away with my daughter
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: Ador
  • Rhythm: Jig
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002

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Harvest home

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The piper's picnic

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Carolan's air
  • Composer: Turlough O'Carolan
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: Amin
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
This tune is just too beautiful! It should really be played on a harp, of course, but I thought it might work well as a flute solo as well.
  For guitarist without classical background: "sul tasto" means keep the right hand above the fretboard for a rounder sound, and "campanella" means avoid playing two succesive notes on the same string and let all notes ring as long as possible. Combined the two techinques can make a nylon-stringed guitar sound almost like a harp, and that, of course, is the idea here.

I've replaced the solo guitar with a harp in the midi file (of course!).
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Shandon bells

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English country garden
I was suddenly hit by my early music background, and wrote this with 17th century style divisions in the flute part. The flutist should of course improvise more divisions if the tune is repeated ;-)

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The swallowtail jig
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: Emin
  • Rhythm: Jig
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Also known as "From the new country".

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Doctor O'Neill

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The yellow flail

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The keel row
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Hornpipe
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
The rhythm of the second and third fiddle at the beginning might be more renaissance than English traditional, but I just couldn't resist it.

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Annie Laurie (easy arrangement)
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
A very simple arrangement. The lead fiddle has to go up to the 3rd position for a little while, but it still shouldn't be too difficult.

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Drowsy Maggie
I wonder what this girl was dreaming of...

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The bonny lass o Fyvie
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: Ballad
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002

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Brighton camp
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: C
  • Rhythm: March
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Also known as "The girl I left behind me" (I was a bit worried about somebody being this happy about leaving a girl behind, but apparently the lyrics are about returning to the lass, so I suppose it's all right then.)
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Earl Grey
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: Strathspey
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
This was the first strathspey I arranged. I was really nervous about that, since I didn't feel I knew enough about that rhythm. Phil Taylor said it was OK, though, and he should know.

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The fox hunters' jig

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The flowers of Edinburgh

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Once I had a sweetheart
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: C
  • Rhythm: Ballad
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
More than a little inspired by Pentangle's recording, perhaps...

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Gilderoy
Variants of this tune are known all over the British isles. According to Jack Campin, it's probably of English origin, although the oldest known source is Scottish, so I decided to ut it among the Scottish tunes. There's another - very different - variant in the Irish section ("King of the Fairies").
  The title supposedly means "red-haired boy" (the tune is occasionally known by that name), but there is also a slight possibility that it comes from the name Gilles de Rais (better known as Bluebeard)
  I really love playing Gilderoy both on the mandolin, the Irish tenor banjo and the guitar, and it really annoys me that I can't play all three instruments at the same time.

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Green garters

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The mason's apron
This tune dates back to around 1700 and is well known both in Scotland and Ireland. The pizzicato fiddles might not be very "authentic", but they sound good, don't they? It's fun to play too!
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Green sleeves
I wasn't shure whether I should include this in the English or in the Irish book. The tune is English, of course, but this particular variant of the tune is from O'Neill's "Dance Music of Ireland". O'Neill said in the preface to the book: "...If not derived from Irish sources, these tunes are certainly Irish by adoption, and if we have trespassed on our British neighbours, we hardly owe them an apology, as from their own admission they availed themselves very liberally of our dance music for centuries..."

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Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: Jig
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
The jig is a pheomena common to all the British countries. I had some problems getting this jig to sound really Scottish, but it came out pretty well in the end, I think.

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Johnny with the queer thing
Sorry, I have absolutely no idea what the title might mean... (Considering the Irish mentality it's probably rather have something to do with drinking than with sex, though ;-)
  The first part is rather similar to the first part of "The Arkansas Traveler". There's probably some kind of connection between the two tunes.

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Orange and blue
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Strathspey
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Also known as "Brochan Lom". Again this is a very Norwegian-inspired arrangement. You could easily pass it off as a reinlender ;-)

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The Staffordshire hornpipe
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: Hornpipe
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002

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The Twa Sisters o Binnorie
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Scotland
  • Key: Dmin
  • Rhythm: Ballad
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
Pentangle made a great recording of this tune, calling it "Cruel sister". I'm not sure where the tune comes from, but it sounds very late 16th Century to me.
  The rhythm guitar part is definitely not

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Kitty Magee

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Long long ago (easy arrangement)
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Ireland
  • Key: G
  • Rhythm: Air
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
A very simple arrangement. I originally made the solo guitar part as an introduction to two-part playing for my students.

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Pål sine høner
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: Norway
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: ?
  • Added: 22.11.2002
One of the best known Norwegian folk tunes, and it's probably not Norwegian at all! At least Leopold Mozart included a "Burlesque" very similar to "pål sine høner" in the piano manuscript he wrote for his son Wolfgang.
  This arrangement has some very distinct bluegrass flavour. It's all in the second fiddle part and becomes even more apparent if you increase the tempo a little bit.
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All around my hat
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: D
  • Rhythm: ?
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
More than a little inspired by Steeleye Span's version of the song.
  I originally wrote this arrangement for my "pub duo", Roar & Frank. Then I relabelled the vocal parts "violin 1" and "flute" and added a couple of more parts to turn it into a folkband arrangement.

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Constant Billy
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: ?
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002

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The gypsy hornpipe

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The trumpet hornpipe
  • Composer: anon.
  • Nationality: England
  • Key: A
  • Rhythm: Hornpipe
  • Added: 26.02.2002
  • Updated: 22.11.2002
The solo guitar part might seem a bit tricky at first, but it's actually quite easy if you do it exactly right.
  Francis O'Neill published two different settings of this tune. None of them are very similar to this one, though.

Seems the midi file has been infiltrated by a banjoist. Can't imagine why...

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Kitty's rambles

   [ Midi| Score |Flute |Violin I |Violin II |Violin III |Guitar I |Guitar II |Bass ]
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Per Spelmann
This springdans is probably from Telemark and is one of the three best known folk tunes in Norway (the other two are "Pål sine høner" and "Kjerringa med staven"). This arrangement started with the rhythm guitar part. I made it to show my students how some very simple alternations (the sus and add9 chords) and switching between the standard rhythm pattern during a tune, could transform a boring old piece into really exciting music.

   [ Midi| Score |Clarinet |Violin I |Violin II |Violin III |Guitar I |Guitar II |Bass ]
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