MEL BAY'S
CELTIC GUITAR
ENCYCLOPEDIA
FINGERSTYLE GUITAR EDITION
Guitar TAB Sheet Music Book

This comprehensive book contains over 100 Celtic tunes arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar. This edition is derived from a collection of nearly 300 arrangements Glenn Weiser has created over the last twenty years. The book is divided into 4 sections: 1) airs, marches and waltzes 2) hornpipes, jigs and reels 3) tunes from the Bunting collection 4) harp tunes of Turlough O'Carolan. All are in either standard or dropped-D tuning, and can be played on either nylon or steel string guitars. All of these melodies are accompanied with brief historical notes. Written in standard notation and tablature. Intermediate in difficulty
Airs, Marches and Waltzes:
- All Through the Night
- The Atholl Highlanders
- The Banks of Inverness
- The Battle of Waterloo
- Believe Me if All these Endearing Young Charms
- The Battle of Aughrim
- The Boys of Wexford
- Castles in the Air
- Childgrove
- Cock up your Beaver
- Come Under My Plaidie
- Dainty Davy
- Down by the Sally Gardens
- The Earl of Dalhousie's Happy Return
- Eileen Aroon (first and second settings)
- Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
- For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name
- Hugh O'Neill's Lament
- King of the Fairies
- The Lark in the Clear Air
- The Lass of Patie's Mill
- Londonderry Air
- Macpherson's Lament
- Niel Gow's Lament for His Second Wife
- The Old Resting Chair
- The Parting Glass
- The Piper through the Meadow Straying
- Old Ireland, a Long Farewell
- Princess Augusta
- The Rocks of the Brae
- Scottish Farewell
- The Shepherd's Wife
- The Rose Tree
Hornpipes:
- Alexander's Hornpipe
- The Brown Coffin
- Clark's Hornpipe
- Delahanty's Hornpipe
- The Fairies' Hornpipe
- Molly Halfpenny
- The Morpeth Rant
- The Quindaro Hornpipe
Jigs:
- The Burnt Old Man
- Cherish the Ladies
- The Connaughtman's Rambles
- Father Tom's Wager
- The Joy of my Life
- The Lark in the Morning
- Larry O'Gaff
- The Muckin' o' Geordie's Byre
- The Mooncoin Jig
- Nell Flaherty's Drake
- O'Keefe's Slide
- Pipe on the Hob
- The Rakes of Kildare
- The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow
- Swallowtail Jig
- The Trip to Sligo
Reels:
- The Fairies' Reel
- Angus Campell
- Cooley's Reel
- The Good-Natured Man
- Lord Gordon's Reel
- Miss Monahan's Reel
- The Mullingar Races
- Peter Street
- Petronella
- Pigeon on the Gate
- The Pigtown Fling
- Scollay's Reel
- The Silver Spire
- The Star of Munster
- The Wise Maid
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley
Tunes from the Bunting collection:
- The Dawning of the Day
- The Foggy Dew (major and minor key versions)
- The Gentle Maiden
- The Girl I Left Behind Me
- Give Me Your Hand
- The Joyce's Country Greeting
- Saint Patrick's Day
- A Soft Mild Morning
- Summer is Coming
- The Wild Geese
- The Coolin
Harp tunes of Turlough O'Carolan:
- Thomas Burke
- Madam Cole
- John Drury (First Air)
- Anne MacDermott Roe
- Miss MacDermott
- Denis O'Conor (Second Air)
- Maurice O'Connor (Second Air)
- John Kelly
- Mary O'Neill
- John O'Reilly
- Kean O'Hara (Third Air)
- Planxty Scott
- Captain Sudley
- Colonel Palmer
- All Alive
- Carolan's Cottage
- Carolan's Fancy
- Planxty O'Carolan
- The Two William Davises
- The Lament for Terence MacDonough
- Ode to Whiskey