[COMMENT1] The Fiddler’s Companion[COMMENT2] 

 

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[COMMENT3] [COMMENT4] PUBLISHED SOURCES: BOOKS AND MS COLLECTIONS.

 

 

 

 

AIRD, JAMES. A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs Adapted for the Fife, Violin, or German Flute, Vol. II. Glasgow, c. 1786. The frontispiece declares: “Humbly Dedicated to the Volunteer and Defensive Bands of Great Britain and Ireland,” a reference to the unit bands of the numerous local militias raised for the defense of the British Isles against the French.

 

ALBURGER, MARY ANNE.  Scottish Fiddlers and Their Music. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London. 1983. ISBN 0‑575‑03174‑3.

 

ALEWINE, KEVIN & FLEMING, KEN.  The Maid That Cut Off the Chicken's Lips: Celtic Ceili Tunes Played in Texas. Vol. 1. Southwest Celtic Music Association, P.O. Box 4474, Dallas, TX 75208. 1987.

 

ALLAN, MOZART.  Allan's Irish Fiddler. Edited by Hugh McDermott. Published by Mozart Allan, 84 Carlton Place, Glasgow, England. c. 1920’s (?)

 

ANDERSON, TOM.  Ringing Strings.  Published by The Shetland Times, Ltd., Lerwick, Shetland. 1983. ISBN 0 900662 40 9.

 

ANDERSON, TOM & GEORGESON, TOM.  Da Mirrie Dancers.  Third Edition, 1989 (originally published in 1970). Shetland Folk Society, Lerwick Shetland. ISBN 0 948276 02 9.

 

ASHMAN, GORDON.  The Ironbridge Hornpipe: A Shropshire Tune Collection from John Moore's Manuscripts.  Dragonfly Music, 44 Durban Street, Blyth, Northumberland NE24 1PT. 1991. ISBN 1 872277 06 3.

 

BACON, LIONEL.  The Morris Ring: A Hand-Book of Morris Dances.  English Folk Dance and Song Society. 1974.

 

BAIN, ALY.  Fifty Fiddle Solos.  Conway Editions (Music Sales Ltd.), London. 1989.

 

BARNES, PETER.  English Country Dance Tunes.  Peter Barnes, 5 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, Mass., 01773. Fifth Printing, 1992 (originally published 1986).

 

BAYARD, SAMUEL.  Hill Country Tunes.  Memoirs of the American Folklore Society, No. 39. American Folklore Society, Philadelphia. 1944.

 

BAYARD, SAMUEL.  Dance to the Fiddle, March to the Fife.  Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa. 198

 

BEGIN, CARMELLE. Fiddle Music in the Ottawa Valley: Dawson Girdwood. National Museum of Man Mercury Series. Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Ottawa, Paper No. 52. 1985. ISSN 0316-1897.

 

BÉGIN, CARMELLE.  Philippe Bruneau: Musique Traditionelle Pour Accordéon Diatonique.  Musée canadian des civilisations (Canadian Museum of Civilization), association québécoise des loisirs folkloriques. Second Edition, 1993.

 

BLACK, BILL. Music’s the Very Best Thing: the Bill Black Irish Tune Collection, Vol. 1. 1996. Sunphone Ltd. 427 Sippewissett Road, Falmouth, Massachusetts, 02540. ISBN #0 9652458 0 2.

 


BOYS OF THE LOUGH.  Music and Song from the Boys of the Lough.  Gilderoy Music. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1977. ISBN 0 9505982 0 8.

 

BREATHNACH, BREANDAN.  Ceol Rince na hEireann  (Dance Music of Ireland), Cuid (Volume) 1. An Gum, Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin). 1963.

 

BREATHNACH, BREANDAN.  Ceol Rince na hEireann  (Dance Music of Ireland), Cuid (Volume) 2. Oifig an tSolathair, Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin). 1976.

 

BREATHNACH, BREANDAN.  Ceol Rince na hEireann  (Dance Music of Ireland), Cuid (Volume) 3. An Gum, Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin). 1985.

 

BREATHNACH, BREANDAN.  Ceol Rince na hEireann (Dance Music of Ireland), Cuid (Volume) 4. An Gum, Baile Atha Cliath (Dublin). 1996. ISBN #1 85791 143 1.

 

BREATHNACH, BREANDÁN.  The Man & his Music: An Anthology of the writings of Breandan Breathnach. Na Píobairí Uilleann. Dublin. 1996.

 

BREMNER, ROBERT.  A Collection of Scots Reels or Country Dances. London, c. 1757. [Ed: The collection is dated 1757 according to John Glen, although in my copy of the ms. the date 1765 has been appended].

 

BRODY, DAVID.  The Fiddler's Fakebook.  Oak Publications, New York., 1983. ISBN# 0 8256 0238 6.

 

BRONNER, SIMON J.  Old-Time Music Makers of New York State. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y. 1987.

 

BROWN, JOHN.  South to Louisianna: The Music of the Cajun Bayous.  Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, La. 1983. ISBN 0‑88289‑300‑9.

 

BRUCE, J. COLLINGWOOD &  STOKOE, JOHN. Northumbrian Minstrelsy. Folklore Associates, Inc. Hatboro, Pennsylvania, 1965. (A reprint of the original "Collection of ballads, melodies, and small‑pipe tunes of Northumbria" published in 1882 by the Society of Antiquaries, Newcastle-upon-Tyne).

 

BULMER & SHARPLEY. Music from Ireland, Volumes 1-4. 1974 (for volumes 1-3, 1976 for volume 4).

 

BURCHENAL, ELIZABETH. American Country Dances, Vol. 1 (Twenty‑Eight Contra‑Dances Largely From the New England States). G. Schirmer, Inc. New York. 1917.

 

CAMERON, JOHN DONALD. The Trip to Windsor Collection: The Music of Dan R. MacDonald, Vol. 2.  Cameron Music Sales, Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. 1994. (Cameron, of Judique, Cape Breton, is MacDonald’s nephew).

 

CAMUS, RAOUL F. Military Music of the American Revolution. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill. 1976. ISBN 0‑8078‑1263‑3.

 

CARLIN, RICHARD. The Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music. Oak Publications, New York, N.Y. 1986. ISBN 0‑8256‑0307‑2. [note: The second book of the GowsStrathspey Reels is not included, and several tune title have been misquoted.]

 

CARLIN, RICHARD. The Master Collection of Dance Music for Violin. Mel Bay Publications, Inc., Pacific, Mo. 1984.

 


CARLIN, RICHARD. English Concertina. Oak Publications, New York, N.Y. 1977. ISBN 0‑8256‑0189‑4.

 

CAROLAN, NICHOLAS. A Harvest Saved: Francis O’Neill and Irish Music in Chicago. Ossian Publications, P.O. Box 84, Cork. 1997. ISBN 1 900428 11 3.

 

CAUTHEN, JOYCE. With Fiddle and Well‑Rosined Bow. University of Alabama Press. 1990.

 

CAZDEN, NORMAN. Dances from Woodland. Independent Music Publishers, New York (O/P). 1945.

 

CAZDEN, NORMAN; HAUFRECHT, HERBERT & STUDER, NORMAN. Folk Songs of the Catskills. State University of New York Press, Albany (New York). 1982. ISBN # 0-87395-580-3.

 

CHAPPELL, WILLIAM. Old English Popular Music, Vol. 1. Jack Brussel, Pub. 1961. Originally published 1855‑59.

 

CHAPPELL, WILLIAM. Old English Popular Music, Vol. 2. Jack Brussel, Pub. 1961. Originally published 1855‑59.

 

CHASE, RICHARD. American Folk Tales and Songs. Dover Publications, New York, 1956. ISBN # 0‑486‑22692‑1.

 

CHRISTESON, R.P.  The Old‑Time Fiddler's Repertory, Vol. 1, 245 Traditional Tunes. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri. 1973. ISBN 0‑8262‑0151‑2.

 

CHRISTESON, R.P.  The Old‑Time Fiddler's Repertory, Vol. 2. University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri. 1984. ISBN 0‑8262‑0440‑6.

 

COLE, M.M. One Thousand Fiddle Tunes. M.M. Cole Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill. 1940. The successor to Ryan’s Mammoth Collection of 1050 Reels and Jigs, published by Howe (Boston, Mass.), 1883. See article by Charles Wolfe in The Devils Box, Vol. 21, No. 4, 1987, pg. 37.

 

COLLINSON, FRANCIS. The Traditional and National Music of Scotland. Routledge & Keegan Paul, London. 1966. ISBN 0 7100 12136.

 

COLLINSON, FRANCIS. The Bagpipe: the History of a Musical Instrument. Routledge & Keegan Paul, London. 1975. ISBN 0 7100 7913 3.

 

CONWAY, CECELIA. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville. 1995. ISBN #0 87049 893 2.

 

COOK, MATTHEW.  The Night in the Kitchen Collection. Vanmarkin Publications, PO Box 315, Dominion, Nova Scotia, B0A 1E0. 1996.

 

COOKE, PETER. The Fiddle Tradition of the Shetland Isles. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. 1986. ISBN 0‑521‑26855‑9.

 

COWDERY, JAMES R. The Melodic Tradition of Ireland. The Kent State University Press, Kent Ohio. 1990. ISBN 0-87338-407-5.

 


CRANFORD, PAUL STEWART.  Brenda Stubbert’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes. Cranford Publications, Box 42 Little River, via RR#1 Englishtown, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, BOC 1HO. 1994. ISBN 0 9691181 4 7.

 


CRANFORD, PAUL STEWART. Jerry Holland’s Collection of Fiddle Tunes. Cranford Publications, Box 42 Little River, via RR#1, Englishtown, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, BOC 1HO. 3rd Edition, 1995 (originally published  1988). ISBN 0 9691181 2 0.

 

CRANFORD, PAUL STEWART. Winston Fitzgerald: A Collection of Fiddle Tunes. Cranford Publications, Box 42, Englishtown, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, BOC 1HO. 1997. ISBN 0 9691181 7 1.

 

CRANITCH, MATT.  The Irish Fiddle Book: The Art of Traditional Fiddle Playing. Ossian Publications, P.O. Box 84, Cork, Ireland. Third edition, 1996 (originally published 1988). ISBN 1 900428 90 3. 

 

CUILLERIER, YVON. Joseph Allard: Cinquante airs traditionnels pour violon. L'Association Quebecoise de <<Loisirs Folkloriques>>. 4545, avenue Pierre-De Coubertin, Casier postal 1000, Succursale <<M>> Montreal, Québec H1V 3R2. 1992.

 

DARLEY, ARTHUR WARREN & McCALL, PATRICK JOSEPH.  The Darley & McCall Collection of Traditional Irish Music. Ossian Publications, Cork, Ireland. 1984 (originally published in 1914). ISBN 0 946005 23 0.

 

DEMARCO, TONY & MILES KRASSEN.   A Trip to Sligo. Silver Spear Publications, P.O. Box 9020, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15224. 1978. Library of Congress Catalogue #: 78‑66981.

 

DIXON, GRAHAM.  Remember Me: The Fiddle Music of Robert Whinham.  Wallace Music, 169 Main Street, Pathhead, Midlothian, Scotland EH37 5SQ. 1995. ISBN 0 9511572 1 3.

 

DUNLAY, K.E. & D.L. REICH. Traditional Celtic Fiddle Music of Cape Breton. Published by Dunlay and Reich, 27 Sherman Bridge Road, Wayland, Mass, 01778. 1986.

 

DUNLAY, KATE & DAVID GREENBERG. Traditional Celtic Violin Music of Cape Breton. DunGreen Music, 20 Windley Avenue, Ontario, Canada M6C 1N2. 1996. ISBN 0 9680802 0 0.

 

ELSON, LOUIS C. The National Music of America. Colonial Press, Boston, Massachusetts. 1899.

 

EMMERSON, GEORGE S. Rantin’ Pipe and Tremblin’ String: A History of Scottish Dance Music. McGill‑Queen's University Press, Montreal. 1971.

 

EMMERSON, GEORGE S.  A Social History of Scottish Dance. McGill--Queen's University Press, Montreal, Canada. 1972. ISBN #0 7735 0087 1.

 

FELDMAN, ALLEN & O’DOHERTY, EAMONN. The Northern Fiddler. Blackstaff Press, 3 Galway Park, Dundonald, Belfast BT16 0AN. 1979. ISBN #0 85640 155 2.

 

FLAHERTY, BERNARD. Trip to Sligo. Privately printed by the author. 1990. ISBN # 0 9516407 0 4.

 

FLEMING-WILLIAMS, NAN & SHAW, PAT. English Dance Airs; Popular Selection, Book 1. 17th and 18th century country dance tunes. Published by the English Folk Dance and Song Society, Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road, London, NW1 7AY. 1965. ISBN #0 85418 059 1.

 


FLETT, J.F. & T.M. FLETT. Traditional Dancing in Scotland. Routledge and Kegan Paul, London. 1964.  ISBN #0 7100 1369 8.

 

FLOOD, WILLIAM H. GRATTAN. The Story of the Harp. Walter Scott Publishing Co. LTD., London. 1905.

 

FLOOD, WILLIAM H. GRATTAN. A History of Irish Music, 2nd ed. Browne and Nolan, LTD., Dublin. 1906.

 

FORD, IRA W. Traditional Music of America. E.P. Dutton and Company, Inc. 1940.

 

FRANCOIS, RAYMOND E. Yaille, Chère!  Thunderstone Press, Lafayette, LA. 1990. ISBN# 0-9625542-0-0.

 

FRASER, SIMON. The Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands of Scotland and the Isles. Originally published in 1815 and in revised form in 1874. This edition by Scott's Highland Serivces Ltd., 54 Langton Road, London, Ontario, N5V 2M1. 1986. ISBN 0‑9691181‑0‑4 (bound), 0‑9691181‑1‑2 (pbk.).

 

FULD, JAMES J. The Book of World-Famous Music. Crown Publishers, Ne