COMHALTAS: Foinn Seisiún Book 1

Comhaltas

Foinn Seisiún Book 1

© 2001 Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann

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An indispensable tunebook for learning Irish traditional music.

tracks

1 Maid Behind the Bar
2 Kilmaley
3 Green Mountain
4 Over the Moor to Maggie
5 Lady Ann Montgomery
6 Maude Millar
7 Jackie Coleman's
8 Mountain Road
9 Cregg's Pipes
10 Drowsy Maggie
11 Glass of Beer
12 Toss the Feathers Em
13 Toss the Feathers D
14 The Earl's Chair
15 Tim Maloney's
16 Ships are Sailing
17 Concertina Reel
18 Come West Along the Road
19 Anderson's
20 Bank of Ireland
21 Woman of the House
22 Kerry Reel
23 Joe Cooley's Reel
24 Wise Maid
25 Bird in the Bush
26 Miss McCleod
27 Merry Blacksmith
28 Sally Gardens
29 Sheehan's
30 Cameronian
31 Foxhunters
32 Boyne Hunt
33 Shannon Breeze
34 Red Haired Lass
35 Silver Spear
36 Father Kelly's No. 1
37 Miss Monaghan
38 Teetotaller
39 St. Anne's
40 London Lasses
41 Salamanca
42 Banshee
43 Sailor's Bonnet
44 Tulla Reel
45 Skylark
46 Roaring Mary
47 Humours of Glendart
48 Saddle the Pony
49 Tobin's Favourite
50 Haunted House
51 My Darling Asleep
52 Club Céilí
53 Lark in the Morning
54 Humours of Ennistymon
55 Wandering Minstrel
56 Brendan Tonra's
57 Kilavil Jig
58 Ship in Full Sail
59 Morning Lark
60 Joe Cooley's Jig
61 Tom Billy's Jig
62 Geese in the Bog
63 Connachtman's Rambles
64 Out on the Ocean
65 Jim Ward's Jig
66 Blarney Pilgrim
67 Cook in the Kitchen
68 Queen of the Fair
69 Pay the Reckoning
70 Carroroe Jig
71 Dusty Windowsills
72 Cliffs of Moher
73 Rose in the Heather
74 The Frost is All Over
75 The Eavesdropper
76 Sixpenny Money
77 Jerry's Beaver Hat
78 Kesh Jig
79 Rambling Pitchfork
80 Lilting Banshee
81 Haste to the Wedding
82 Maid on the Green
83 Kid on the Mountain
84 Jim Morrison's
85 Leitrim Jig
86 Trip to Athlone
87 Langstrom's Pony
88 Sackow's Jig
89 Sonny Murray's Hornpipe
90 Home Ruler
91 Kitty's Wedding
92 Boys of Bluehill
93 Cork Hornpipe
94 Cronin's Hornpipe
95 Brosna Slide
96 O'Keefe's Slide
97 Dennis Murphy's
98 Ballydesmond No. 2
99 Ballydesmond No. 1
100 Peg Ryan's (Kerry Polka No. 1)
101 Britches Full of Stitches
102 Armagh Polka
103 Ballydesmond No. 3
104 Sweeney's
105 Denis Murphy's
106 Maggie in the Wood
107 Little Diamond
108 Murroe Polka
109 Maids of Ardath (Toormoore No. 2)
110 John Doherty's Mazurka
111 Vincent Campbell's Mazurka
112 Sonny's Mazurka
113 Shoe the Donkey
114 The Belltable Waltz
115 Tabhair Dom do Lamh
116 The Long Note

notes

The two Comhaltas publications, Foinn Seisiún 1 and Foinn Seisiún 2, contain 220 standard traditional tunes arranged in 74 sets as played at the Tuesday and Wednesday night sessions in the Cultúrlann in Monkstown.

Tunes consist of reels, jigs, hornpipes, polkas, slides, mazurkas, etc. Book 1 contains standards such as Joe Cooley's Reel, Maid Behind the Bar, Bank of Ireland, Lark in the Morning jig, Kid on the Mountain Slip Jig, Ballydesmond polka and other common session favourites arranged in 39 sets. Selections in Book 2 are also established traditional standards and additionally include some of the "bigger tunes" such as the Bucks of Oranmore, the Kilfenora jigs and reel sets plus the famed Tarbolton set. There are also simpler sets such as "Sailor on the Rock, the Hare's Paw and Sunny Banks" reels or "the Lilting Fisherman, Tell Her I am and Going to the Well for Water" jigs, etc. Book 2 contains 35 sets.

Foinn Seisiún books are a must for musicians who enjoy session playing and would like to build a repertoire of tunes which will be universally known. They will hopefully also help to maintain some of the older tunes in circulation so that future generations of musicians will get an opportunity to play the Pipes on the Hob jigs, the Humours of Ballyconnell, Chicago and Copperplate reels, etc, etc.

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  • author: Eileen Holland

    As I have just received this very recently, I hav'nt had much time to go through the complete album as yet. However, I purchased this due to the fact that I have taken up a life long ambition to learn Traditional Irish Music. I have been a button key accordian player for years, but I could not play Irish Trad, I have recently come across a good teacher, and due to this I thought that if I got this CD it would be very helpful. So far, and it is early days yet I am very pleased. When I have gone through this in detail, it is my intention to purchase the next DC. However, I feel I have enough to keep me busy for the moment. Regards, Eileen

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