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Traditional Irish Music for Sets and Sessions Yellow Book

During the late 1980s, Na Píobairí Uilleann (The Pipers’ Club) of Dublin, in association with Brooks Academy, produced six cassette recordings of set dance music which featured some outstanding instrumentalists playing over 200 tunes of the first water. These tunes have been accurately notated and brought together, with chords, in this, The Yellow Book and its sister collection, The Blue Book. There are 212 fabulous tunes to play for Irish set dances and Irish music sessions, All these tunes can be heard on the Na Píobairí Uilleann website (pipers.ie). Search for the six recordings: Round the House, Mind the Dresser, Pay the Piper, Call the Tune, Show the Lady and Face the Hob.

 

  • Click on the sets to the right to hear the fabulous Irish session tunes contained in this book.

 

All the Ways to Galway

Anderson’s

At the Bend in the Road

The Ballybunion

Barrack Hill

The Bird in the Bush

The Boyne Hunt

Boys of Ballisodare

The Bucks of Oranmore

The Cameronian

The Carraroe

The Chicago

Chief O’Neill’s Favourite

Coleman’s

The Collier’s

Come West Along the Road

Con Carthy’s Favourite

Cooley’s

Crowley’s No. 1

Crowley’s No. 2

Dan O’Connell’s Favourite

Dha Phort

The Donegal

The Doon

Eamonn McGivney’s

The Eavesdropper

The Echoes of Killarney

The First House in Connaught

Fishers    

The Flax in Bloom

The Flogging

Fraher’s

Fred Finn’s

The Green Gates

The Green Mountain

Greig’s Pipes

Hand Me Down the Tackle

The Hard Road to Passage

The Hare in the Corn

The Home Ruler

The Humours of Ballymore

The Ivy Leaf

Jackson’s Bottle of Brandy

The Jenny Lind

Jimmy Doyle’s Favourite

John Kelly’s

Kilmaley

The King of the Pipers

Kitty’s Wedding

Knocknaboul

The Knotted Cord

The Labyrinth

Lady Anne Montgomery

Larry O’Gaff

Last Night’s Fun

The Laurel Bush

Leave Well Alone

The Liverpool

Lord MacDonald’s

The Luckpenny

Lucy Campbell

Maggie in the Wood

The Maid in the Cherry Tree

The Maid of Feakle

The Maid that Left the County

McGettrick’s

Miss Johnston    

Miss Monaghan

The Moving Bog

Mrs Crowley’s

Mulcahy’s

Mullen’s Fancy

Mulvihill’s

Munster Bank

O’Connell’s Welcome to Parliament

O’Mahony’s

The Old Blackthorn

The Pipe on the Hob

The Piper’s Despair

Port an Dreólin

Port Sheáin Dan Nell

Pretty Girls of Mayo

Queen of the Fair

The Rights of Man

An Rógaire Dubh

The Sailor on the Rock

Sally Gardens

The Shaskeen

Sheáin Coughlan’s No. 1

Sheáin Coughlan’s No. 2

Sheehan’s

The Ship in Full Sail

Steve Cooney’s

Tim Maloney’s    

Tobin’s Favourite

Tom Cromwell

Tone Rowe’s

Touch Me if You Dare

The Tuar Mór No. 3

Tureengarbh Glen

The Walls of Liscarroll

The West Wind

The Wheels of the World

Whelan’s

When Sick, Is it Tea You Want?

The Whistling Postman

The Wild Irishman

The Wise Maid

Woman of the House

Traditional Irish Music for Sets and Sessions Yellow Book

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  • The Yellow Book and its sister collection, The Blue Book, contain a wealth of popular traditional Irish tunes, transcribed from recordings accurately arranged for Irish set dancing, each track being the correct length for each figure.

    These tunes represent a typical cross-section of repertoire heard in Irish music sessions and crop up regularly. They form an excellent reservoir of tunes for session players and the added aid of soundtracks, played by top performers, makes learning them very accessible, for both newbies and seasoned players.

    The tunes in this book can all be heard on the Na Píobairí Uilleann website (pipers.ie).

     

    Click on the sets below to hear the fabulous Irish session tunes contained in this book. 

     

    9 Set Dances

    111 Tunes

    14 Polkas

    13 Slides

    20 Double Jigs

    56 Reels

    8 Hornpipes

    15 Photographs

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