I found most of the common feis set dance tunes in either the O'Neill's (the 1850 Tunes... ) or the Roche's Collection. The ones I couldn't locate from those two sources, I found on Kevin Joyce's CD "The Final Round" and transcribed them. I probably have the ABC files somewhere around if interested.
David Mallinson has published several tune books with all the well known tunes. There's two in particular which may be of interest in the "Music for the sets" series, namely the Blue book and the Yellow book.
See http://www.mally.com/results.asp?CategoryID=1
Bob,
I hope for the dancers sake that they do not have to dance to these whiney musicians. An Coimissun Le Rinci Galeacha and An Comhghail Le Rinci Gaelacha have a pretty good if not excellent calibre of Feis musicians, namely Kevin Warren, Colm Keogh, Gerald Murphy, The Bradley brothers... and on and on. I can understand if a "remote area" does not have great musicians and are starting out..... but..
Let me put it like this.....
after 7 months of playing flute, would you like me to accompany you in a band???
Sorry, but I am a protector of dancers and all the hard work involved...........
By the way...
I believe I missed the relevance of the comment "fakebook"... could you elaborate???
Traditional sets:
Job of Journey Work
Three Sea Captains
Saint Patricks Day
The Blackbird
King of the Fairies
Garden of Daisies
Set Dances:
Miss Brownes Fancy
Kilkenny Races
Madame Bonapartes
Bonapartes Retreat
Hurry the Jug
Rambling Rake
Planxty Drury
Planxty Davis
Orange Rogue
Fiddler Around the Fairy Tree
White Blanket
Drunken Gauger
Is the Big Man Within
Three Sea Captains (non trad)
Ace and Deuce of Pipering
Youghal Harbour
King of the Fairies (non trad)
Of the top 50 tunes this leaves approx. 26 tunes can be used for Reels, Light Jigs, Single Jigs, Slip Jigs, Treble (Double) Jigs, and hornpipes............
Rather repetitive for a full day Feis?
I think that musicians who enter the dance world should be up to spec on a vast array of tunes needed to keep dancers motivated....
In the books section I saw at least 4 books having to do with set dancing or traditional sets. Most have an accompanying tape if you want to learn by ear as well.
If you have any questions the folks at NPU will be glad to answer them, too.
Fake books are so called because one is expected to "fake" (create) one's own accompaniment from the given tune/chords on the spot (if you're a pianist, guitarist, etc. who can play melody & accompaniment at the same time). They're great for learning new tunes, as well as for gigs where you read dots and/or need to take requests.
Jazz musicians have used them for decades, as a common body of repertoire. ("It's in The Real Book, book 1, page X.") I have a guitarist friend who carries his treasured collection of fake books around in his trunk, so he's ready for any gig.
Most fake books are instrumental, but more recent ones include lyrics.
I've recently published a fake book for harpers/harpists/others which includes a big section of trad tunes.
Jaysus, Eoin, but you're going to make a good ADCRG. Our hero. *grin* (I'm a Yank, not one of you Dubliners, so that wasn't a dig, mind!) There's been some dismal feis musicians (and no I'm not going to name names!) and you know it...but as a dancer and a musician I'll still give them a bow for the try.
Usually I've discovered that they're intermediate musicians who wanted the experience. I know of at least one really good player who tells his students that playing at feisianna is a good practice for them at keeping the beat steady and all.
Dots are of great help and limited use. As in fakebooks of jazz and pop standards, dots for us tend to only be a starting place. Of course, in our music, the best way to learn tunes is by listening to lots of the music (although I think that's also true of any music, really). Fakebooks were never meant to be for beginners who haven't the chops to be able to use them properly...
Feis tune book
Feis tune book
Hello,
I need to bring along several musicians who can't (or whine about) learn by ear or from a recording.
I need a Feis oriented tune book that contains the top 50 dance tunes and traditional sets.
I have some session books but they do not have several of the Favs like Three Sea Captains Job of Journey work etc.
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by bt
Re: Feis tune book
Hmm, looks like there are several in the tune list here on this site. I should have looked there first.
But if you know of a good fakebook let me in on it.
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by bt
Re: Feis tune book
Funny, I never think of a "fake book" when it comes to tunes. It seems a more suitable description of the "three chord trick" for accompanying songs.
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Feis tune book
I found most of the common feis set dance tunes in either the O'Neill's (the 1850 Tunes... ) or the Roche's Collection. The ones I couldn't locate from those two sources, I found on Kevin Joyce's CD "The Final Round" and transcribed them. I probably have the ABC files somewhere around if interested.
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by pbassnote
Re: Feis tune book
David Mallinson has published several tune books with all the well known tunes. There's two in particular which may be of interest in the "Music for the sets" series, namely the Blue book and the Yellow book.
See
http://www.mally.com/results.asp?CategoryID=1
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by Johnny Jay
Re: Feis tune book
The ceili band I play with has a large subset of their tunebook that we use for step dancers online:
http://www.uptospeed.net/hoi/
Scroll down to the "Sunday Morning Class Sheet Music" section, where you will find a number of .pdf tune books to download.
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by Michael Eskin
Re: Feis tune book
Bob,
I hope for the dancers sake that they do not have to dance to these whiney musicians. An Coimissun Le Rinci Galeacha and An Comhghail Le Rinci Gaelacha have a pretty good if not excellent calibre of Feis musicians, namely Kevin Warren, Colm Keogh, Gerald Murphy, The Bradley brothers... and on and on. I can understand if a "remote area" does not have great musicians and are starting out..... but..
Let me put it like this.....
after 7 months of playing flute, would you like me to accompany you in a band???
Sorry, but I am a protector of dancers and all the hard work involved...........
By the way...
I believe I missed the relevance of the comment "fakebook"... could you elaborate???
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by Eoino
Re: Feis tune book
Just on the note of 50 top dance tunes.....
Traditional sets:
Job of Journey Work
Three Sea Captains
Saint Patricks Day
The Blackbird
King of the Fairies
Garden of Daisies
Set Dances:
Miss Brownes Fancy
Kilkenny Races
Madame Bonapartes
Bonapartes Retreat
Hurry the Jug
Rambling Rake
Planxty Drury
Planxty Davis
Orange Rogue
Fiddler Around the Fairy Tree
White Blanket
Drunken Gauger
Is the Big Man Within
Three Sea Captains (non trad)
Ace and Deuce of Pipering
Youghal Harbour
King of the Fairies (non trad)
Of the top 50 tunes this leaves approx. 26 tunes can be used for Reels, Light Jigs, Single Jigs, Slip Jigs, Treble (Double) Jigs, and hornpipes............
Rather repetitive for a full day Feis?
I think that musicians who enter the dance world should be up to spec on a vast array of tunes needed to keep dancers motivated....
# Posted on August 10th 2004 by Eoino
Re: Feis tune book
Bob -
Take a look at the catalog on NPU's web site.
http://www.pipers.ie - Resources/Mail Order Catalogue. Search on books.
In the books section I saw at least 4 books having to do with set dancing or traditional sets. Most have an accompanying tape if you want to learn by ear as well.
If you have any questions the folks at NPU will be glad to answer them, too.
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by mconners
Re: Feis tune book
Fake Books are collections with notated melody line, chord symbols, and complete lyrics.
# Posted on March 1st 2003 by dafydd
Re: Feis tune book
Thanks for the suggestions. I suppose "fakebook" is a term from another genre and doesn't apply to ITM.
I am after all, a b***o player as well.
Bob
# Posted on August 11th 2004 by bt
Fake books (was: Feis tune book)
Fake books are so called because one is expected to "fake" (create) one's own accompaniment from the given tune/chords on the spot (if you're a pianist, guitarist, etc. who can play melody & accompaniment at the same time). They're great for learning new tunes, as well as for gigs where you read dots and/or need to take requests.
Jazz musicians have used them for decades, as a common body of repertoire. ("It's in The Real Book, book 1, page X.") I have a guitarist friend who carries his treasured collection of fake books around in his trunk, so he's ready for any gig.
Most fake books are instrumental, but more recent ones include lyrics.
I've recently published a fake book for harpers/harpists/others which includes a big section of trad tunes.
http://www.cynthiashelhart.com/publications.html
Cindy in Indiana
# Posted on August 15th 2004 by Cindyharp
Re: Feis tune book
Jaysus, Eoin, but you're going to make a good ADCRG. Our hero. *grin* (I'm a Yank, not one of you Dubliners, so that wasn't a dig, mind!) There's been some dismal feis musicians (and no I'm not going to name names!) and you know it...but as a dancer and a musician I'll still give them a bow for the try.
Usually I've discovered that they're intermediate musicians who wanted the experience. I know of at least one really good player who tells his students that playing at feisianna is a good practice for them at keeping the beat steady and all.
Dots are of great help and limited use. As in fakebooks of jazz and pop standards, dots for us tend to only be a starting place. Of course, in our music, the best way to learn tunes is by listening to lots of the music (although I think that's also true of any music, really). Fakebooks were never meant to be for beginners who haven't the chops to be able to use them properly...
# Posted on August 15th 2004 by Zina Lee