New Tune A Day Volume 1 (Sheet Music)

This is Katie, dropping in for a quick announcement! 

While I was doing the New Tune a Day project, I got requests all the time for the sheet music. Although some sheet music is available online in different places, lots of folks wanted to see sheet music with the variations, notations, and ornamentations I used in my videos. So I've compiled a bunch of the public domain tunes together in this volume. This first volume includes Irish jigs and reels. Future volumes will include Irish slip jigs, hornpipes, slides, and polkas; Old-Time tunes; and the other miscellaneous tunes I learned over the course of the project. When you click on the Paypal button, you will be directed to paypal.com where you can pay via credit card or paypal balance. Then, you will receive an email with a PDF attachment of the tunebook from me with in 1-2 days of your order. The whole tunebook is $12.99!

I will be recording an album to go with each volume. Each album will include slowed-down and regular-tempo versions of these tunes. Volume 1's recording will be available this summer, so stay tuned here, or on facebook or Youtube!

Volume 1 contains the following tunes:

JIGS

Biddy from Sligo (G Major) 6

The Banks of the Lough Gowna (A Dorian) 6

Humours of Glendart (D Major) 7

Killavil Jig (E Dorian) 7

Kitty Lie Over (D Major) 9

Kitty’s Rambles (D Mixolydian) 10

Northern [Untitled Jig] (A Dorian) 10

The Drunken Gauger (Set Dance) (G Major) 11

The Orphan Jig (E Minor) 11

The Rambling Pitchfork (D Major) 12

Sean Ryans (A Dorian) 13

Seamus Cooley’s (G Major) 13

The South West Wind (D Mixolydian) 14

Tatter Jack Walsh (D Mixolydian) 14

The Frieze Britches     (D Mixolydian) 15

The Lark’s March (D Major) 16

The Old Tipperary (G Major) 17

Winnie Hayes (E Dorian) 17

REELS. 18

An Buailteoir Aerach (G Major) 18

Beare Island      (E Mixolydian) 19

Billy in the Lowground (C Major) 19

Bonnie Kate       (D Major) 20

Bridie’s Joy (D Major) 21

Cloonagroe (G Major) 21

Concert Reel     (A Dorian) 22

Donal A’ Phumpa (G Major) 22

Jenny Picking Cockles (D Mixolydian) 23

Jenny’s Welcome to Charlie (D Mixolydian) 24

Julia Delaney’s (D Dorian) 25

Killavil Fancy      (G Major) 25

Lady MacDonald’s (G Major) 26

Lafferty’s (E Dorian) 27

London Lasses (G Major) 27

Master Crowley’s (E Dorian) 28

Miss Longford (D Major) 28

Mother’s Delight (D Minor) 29

Mrs. Crehan’s (G Major) 29

Pigeon on the Gate (E Dorian) 30

Rakish Paddy (D Dorian) 30

Road to Errogie (G Major) 31

Sally Gardens (G Major) 31

Seàn in the Mist (E Mixolydian)

E minor Polka

The Lads of Laois

Rose in the Gap

Chickens Gone to Scotland

The Blackbird

Roscommon Reel

Marie Louise

Aililiu Na Gamhna

Bó Mhín Na Toitean

The Ships in Full Sail

Easter Sunday

A lovely reel by the late Paddy O'Brien. I was lucky to learn many of his tunes while studying with his daughter, Eileen at the University of Limerick for my MA in Irish traditional music. What a fantastic tunesmith!

May Morning Dew

The Yellow Cow

Jewels of the Ocean

Jewels of the Ocean by Allan MacDonald

Finbar Dwyer's Favorite

The Boy in the Boat

Box of Springs

A new tune I wrote today.

With Ourselves

With Ourselves
composed by John Harling

Mac's Fancy

Cooley's

Silver Spear

Swinging on the Gate

Newmarket Polka

Another polka!

I have two yellow goats

Happy tune! Also, listen to this version by Oarla O'Lionair.

Willie Coleman's

Thanks to my back-up singer!

Star of Munster

Toss the Feathers

John Kelly's Reel

I learned this tune this afternoon from the album, Reed Only by Brian McNamara and Tim Collins. 

The Sheep in the Boat

P.J. Crotty, Carol Cullinan & James Cullinan recorded this on their album, Happy to Meet. I expected it to be the same tune as A Goat in the Boat, but they're not even very similar. I think I'll play them in a set together.