60 tunes arranged for two players into 28 medleys. Includes barn dances, flings, hop jigs, hornpipes, jigs, laments, marches, planxtys, polkas, quadrilles, quicksteps, rants, reels, slides, slip jigs, and waltzes. Chords are also included.
Each Tunes for Two collection consists of individual spiral-bound duet books presented in score form with melody on the top line and harmony beneath so you can play each tune by yourself or with others. The tunes are laid out so that there are no page turns to interrupt the flow of your playing. Duo arrangements of the tunes in this collection, in the same keys, are available for violins, violas, cellos, basses, and mandolins.
PDFs are available worldwide for each of the books in the Tunes for Two series.
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“” Barn Dance Medley No. 1: The Gay Gordons & Sean Hayes Barn Dance Medley No. 2: If There Weren’t Any Women & Peggy Though She’d Marry Farewell Medley: Farewell to Highland & Farewell to Old Ireland Fling Medley No. 1: Love Will You Marry Me (Some Say the Devil Is Dead) & Tibbie Inglis’ Fancy & Keel Row Fling Medley No. 2: Green Grows the Rushes O & The Irish Girl’s Highland Fling Hop Jig Medley: Irish Hop Jig & Furnill’s Frolic Hornpipe Medley No. 1: Boys of Bluehill & Quarrelsome Piper Hornpipe Medley No. 2: The Peacock’s Feathers & Off To California Jig Medley No. 1: Tell Him I Am & Tell Her I Am Jig Medley No. 2: Swallowtail Jig & Irish Washerwoman Jig Medley No. 3: Narry the Piper & Wandering Minstrel Lament Medley No. 1: Exile’s Lament & The Old Woman Lamenting Her Purse March Medley No. 1: The Maguire’s March & Captain Bluett’s March March Medley No. 2: Old Derry March & I’ll Eat No More Of Your Barley Bread Planxty Medley No. 1: Planxty Drew & Planxty Maggie Browne Polka Medley No. 1: Galway Belle & Paddys Land (The Rose Tree) & Anno Polka Polka Medley No. 2: Riding On A Load Of Hay & Munchiner Polka Quadrille Medley No. 1: No. 1 & No. 2 Quadrille Medley No. 2: Quadrille Polka & Quadrille in G Quickstep Medley: The Kildare Quickstep & The Imperial Quick Step March Rant Medley No. 1: The Miller’s Rant & Aith Rant Rant Medley No. 2: Polly’s Rant & The Morpeth Rant Reel Medley No. 1: An Irish Heart of Gold & Dark Haired Lass Reel Medley No. 2: Swingin’ On a Gate & The Good Fluter’s Reel & The Little Bag of Potatoes Slide Medley No. 1: The Dancing Dog & The King of The Cannibal Islands & Mary’s Spinning Wheel Slip Jig Medley: The Maid’s Complaint & Old Mother Goose & Pat Murphy the Piper Waltz Medley No. 1: Ne’er Wed An Old Man & Single and Free Waltz Medley No. 2: My Dear, We’ll Get Married If Love Comes On & The Matchmaker |
Greenblatt has provided us a quick but thorough resource for traditional fiddle music: Irish-sourced tunes that work well together as medleys in various forms, including jigs, polkas, quadrilles, and reels. Each medley contains two or three short songs which Greenblatt feels connect well once the ear pays attention. A beautiful connection is the “Farewell Medley,” which contains “Farewell to Highland” and “Farewell to Old Ireland”. For anyone wanting to have a resource for period music, this should be in that library.
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