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Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Available for free at: http://www.ezfolk.com/library/fiddle/hardings-jigs/index.html Published 1922. I see plenty of titles not in other books, as well as interesting settings like the Humours of Whiskey in D Min. Pluckers also might take an interest in the Eclipse Self Instructor for Banjo, or assorted volumes on the ukulele. Harding's is also available at Amazon in reprint, with forward by Randy Miller (who apparently considers it "must-have"), if you'd rather go that way. Published by Double Dagger Press, whose other volume is a Tae Kwon Do manual...
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
My bad. The Aplang guy.
Am on a roll - just bought a copy of Feldamn/Doherty's Northern Fiddler for the princely sum of £12.00, $30 total with shipping to the US. How do I make a sticking-the-tongue-out smiley around here? ;) Borrowed that early in my career from my first pipes teacher, who would constantly complain about people who would "L and G" - i.e., Loan it to them and it would then be Gone. Returned all my borrowings except for the Shawm and Bagpipe LP, which he very vocally detested. Always kinda kicked myself for not hanging onto the NF, seeing how dear they are pricewise. Until now! Well, I had to wait 12 years. That bookseller really didn't check the fine print here.
Joe MacLean Collection of Scottish and Cape Breton Music = http://museum.gov.ns.ca/hv/macleancollection.html This has got to be about the most exhaustive bibliography of tunebooks I've ever seen. Curiously snapped up one of Joe's LPs last night for $10 on eBay.
Gordon F MacQuarrie's Cape Breton Collection of Scottish Melodies, published 1940 = http://www.electricscotland.net/canada/breton11-1.htm Really big and askew scans of the book, courtesy of the electricscotland.com guy and the Celtic Music Interpretive Center.
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Thank you very much for the link, Kevin. I've been trying to re-set and print the Joyce Collection for a few years, but I don't have the funds to print a run of books, and I'm not sure sales would even cover the investment.
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Crude piano backing was common for late 19th century books like the Skye Collection. O'Neill utilized it in Waifs and Strays (1922), and I guess some earlier books - I've never gotten my hands on his middle period offerings, whatever they're called, Irish Music for Violin and Piano? Seem to recall that Selena O'Neill, the Chief's protege, edited or provided the backing for one of those tomes. It's really irritating to me - clutters up the pages, and who ever actually used that junk in real life? Better to provided a treatise on how to accompany.
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Nice link, Kevin.
You might also like to consider adding your link to the links section of this website (tune collection category) - that is, if you haven't already done so.
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
I'd love to make the Joyce available for free, the idea behind the publishing was to make it available because as it stands, people online have been asking ridiculous prices for it. On this site, there have been people asking about it from time to time. Do you know if the EZ Folk Library would accept scans? I will try emailing them later this week.
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Let me encourage you to buy a copy of my reprint of Harding's. (Gravelwalks rightly deduced that the cost of printing has not turned out to be met by sales.)
In addition to making them available on Amazon and via DoubleDaggerPress.com (at cover price), I have been listing them at cost plus a little on eBay (basically what Amazon would pay me). They're sitting in my storage shed, already printed, so save a tree by not printing it again and get a copy from me.
Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Available for free at: http://www.ezfolk.com/library/fiddle/hardings-jigs/index.html Published 1922. I see plenty of titles not in other books, as well as interesting settings like the Humours of Whiskey in D Min. Pluckers also might take an interest in the Eclipse Self Instructor for Banjo, or assorted volumes on the ukulele. Harding's is also available at Amazon in reprint, with forward by Randy Miller (who apparently considers it "must-have"), if you'd rather go that way. Published by Double Dagger Press, whose other volume is a Tae Kwon Do manual...
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by KLR
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
It appears that the forward is by Rodney, not Randy.
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by worthy
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
My bad. The Aplang guy.
Am on a roll - just bought a copy of Feldamn/Doherty's Northern Fiddler for the princely sum of £12.00, $30 total with shipping to the US. How do I make a sticking-the-tongue-out smiley around here? ;) Borrowed that early in my career from my first pipes teacher, who would constantly complain about people who would "L and G" - i.e., Loan it to them and it would then be Gone. Returned all my borrowings except for the Shawm and Bagpipe LP, which he very vocally detested. Always kinda kicked myself for not hanging onto the NF, seeing how dear they are pricewise. Until now! Well, I had to wait 12 years. That bookseller really didn't check the fine print here.
Joe MacLean Collection of Scottish and Cape Breton Music = http://museum.gov.ns.ca/hv/macleancollection.html This has got to be about the most exhaustive bibliography of tunebooks I've ever seen. Curiously snapped up one of Joe's LPs last night for $10 on eBay.
Gordon F MacQuarrie's Cape Breton Collection of Scottish Melodies, published 1940 = http://www.electricscotland.net/canada/breton11-1.htm Really big and askew scans of the book, courtesy of the electricscotland.com guy and the Celtic Music Interpretive Center.
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by KLR
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Thank you very much for the link, Kevin. I've been trying to re-set and print the Joyce Collection for a few years, but I don't have the funds to print a run of books, and I'm not sure sales would even cover the investment.
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by gravelwalks
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
There are chords with the tunes.. first time I saw that. for piano probably ?
# Posted on May 4th 2009 by RoLuPiN
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Crude piano backing was common for late 19th century books like the Skye Collection. O'Neill utilized it in Waifs and Strays (1922), and I guess some earlier books - I've never gotten my hands on his middle period offerings, whatever they're called, Irish Music for Violin and Piano? Seem to recall that Selena O'Neill, the Chief's protege, edited or provided the backing for one of those tomes. It's really irritating to me - clutters up the pages, and who ever actually used that junk in real life? Better to provided a treatise on how to accompany.
I thought somewhere or another you could download the Joyce for free. I picked up Henebry's Handbook of Irish Music on CD-ROM from Unicorn Press: http://scotpress.com/catalog/scottish-music-books-irish-and-welsh-music-c-44_466/handbook-of-irish-music-p-1325 So, there's always that route to take.
# Posted on May 5th 2009 by KLR
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Nice link, Kevin.
You might also like to consider adding your link to the links section of this website (tune collection category) - that is, if you haven't already done so.
# Posted on May 5th 2009 by Mix O'Lydian
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
I'd love to make the Joyce available for free, the idea behind the publishing was to make it available because as it stands, people online have been asking ridiculous prices for it. On this site, there have been people asking about it from time to time. Do you know if the EZ Folk Library would accept scans? I will try emailing them later this week.
# Posted on May 5th 2009 by gravelwalks
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Interesting collection. Of special interest though is the link to Henebry's book. Really keen 2 read it.
# Posted on May 7th 2009 by Fipplewit
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Delightfull collection, Kevin! Thanks. For anyone interested, I've compiled all the pages into one .pdf, which you can download here:
http://www.joefago.com/Hardings_JigsReelsDances.pdf
It's rather hefty at 70M so it might take a minute or so to download, depending on your system.
# Posted on May 11th 2009 by fidkid
Re: Harding’s All-Round Collection of Jigs, Reels and Country Dances
Let me encourage you to buy a copy of my reprint of Harding's. (Gravelwalks rightly deduced that the cost of printing has not turned out to be met by sales.)
In addition to making them available on Amazon and via DoubleDaggerPress.com (at cover price), I have been listing them at cost plus a little on eBay (basically what Amazon would pay me). They're sitting in my storage shed, already printed, so save a tree by not printing it again and get a copy from me.
# Posted on November 1st 2009 by mvhplank