Because of its importance in the history of the tunes, the. This is a collection of oldtime fiddle tunes most of them from appalachia in pdf format. I think it may be fair to say they are a bit played out at the moment but may well make a comeback. The week of events runs from sunday to sunday, during the first week in august each year, centered on workshops teaching the distinctive tunes and technique of the shetland fiddle style. If you discover a tune listed that has a composer, please contact me so that i can correct it. The finest compendium we have of shetland fiddle tunes, both old and new along with the text, music and notes to the various songs and short biographical notes on famous eighteenth and early nineteenth century shetland fiddlers.
He explains that both tunes were thought to have been brought back by shetland fiddlers from the greenland whaling. Just click on the name to see the page for that tune. Dr tom anderson was responsible for the preservation of many of shetlands traditional tunes. He is leader of the shetland fiddlers and teaches traditional shetland fiddle music in schools throughout the islands. In his 1979 book of fiddle music with pam swing, haand me doon da fiddle, willafjord follows the tune oliver jack. If you learn all the tunes in this book, you wont be caught short at a shetland music session. Shetland fiddle musicscottish fiddle music youtube.
Extra festival events in addition to all the ticketed events that are listed in thi s booking form, the shetland folk festival society organises a number of additional events so that an even greater proportion of our community can access the culture and entertainment on offer. The emphasis is on instrumental folk music specifically, contra dance tunes, although. When i first got interested in playing irish and scottish music, i did a search of the. There is a compressed file containing all the tunes at the bottom of the page. Ze1 0bb cheques or postal orders should be made payable to. Aly bain is shetland s best known export and world renowned fiddler. This collection includes more than 1600 scores with sheet music and tabs for guitar plus midi files of the tunes. Aly travels the world, sometimes with accordion player phil cunningham, sharing his passion not only for the fiddle but for shetland s fiddle tunes. The emphasis is on instrumental folk music specifically, contra dance tunes, although some links also include other types of folk music or classical music. December, 2019 fiddling medley 4 tunes,g d a d sheet music 4 tunes red wing, snow deer joyeuses qu b coises and quadrille des montagnards mp3 4 tunes gdadred wing, snow deer, joyeuses qu b coises and quadrille des montagnards.
If the tune plays instead of downloading, use your context menu key and select save target as, this will bring up the option to save the file. Heres a short little classic tune in em that simple to flatpick. There are many fine fiddlemakers in scotland, but when it came to commissioning the instrument, one name stood out, the shetland maker ewen thomson. Watch how to play shetland fiddle online vimeo on demand.
Dr tom andersons 1979 tunebook with pam swing is out of print but there is a free download of the whole book here note that download of the pdf version starts automatically if you click the link. Nov 04, 2019 this work aims to characterize microtiming variations in traditional shetland fiddle music. Shetland society of wellington presidents report july 2012 june 20. Vve now began to march in close file, bending our against the blast so as to. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 traditional fiddle tunes from old recordings, festivals, jams and workshops, notated by john lamancusa click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys to hear a synthesized midi file, or for a recording.
In the context of shetland fiddle music, these microtiming variations are often referred to as lilt. Willie hunter without doubt among the finest fiddle players in scotland, willie also composes fine tunes. Aly bain is shetlands best known export and world renowned fiddler. Although a basic knowledge of the fiddle is necessary, these lessons are taught slowly and carefully, so even a nearbeginner can play the tunes tunes taught are. On charlie waldens list of 100 essential missouri fiddle tunes. Its a set of 4 books with coordinated arrangements for fiddle, clawhammer banjo, flatpick guitar, and mandolin. Tom anderson another famous son of northmavine was dr tom anderson mbe. List of popular scottish fiddle tunes yes, again there tunes are popular dance tunes but tend not to get played at sessions nowadays, certainly here on the west side of scotland. American oldtime music sheetmusic scores with chords. Carrbridge songbird sermanni has performed in shetland three times previously, first taking to a shetland stage in 2011 supporting folktpop giants mumford and sons starting out on fiddle, holmes switched to guitar at 14 and began. All tunes here are, to the best of my knowledge, traditional and in the public domain.
Ssoommee ppeerrssppeeccttiivveess oonn ssccoottttiisshh. The way of the fiddle one fiddlers collection of oldtime tunes. Apr 12, 2020 bobby casey 1926 2000was a renowned fiddle player from annagh a town nearmiltown. Index of sets by number, pdf format index of tunes by title, pdf format pdf files for standard sets. The launch will take place in the foyer of shetland museum on sunday 2 august at 2. The emphasis is on instrumental folk music, although some links also include classical.
Arioso by bach free violin sheet music, sheet music book, violin music, violin. New rigged ship full rigged ship pdf sheet music harmony parts by georgia nettleton pdf sheet music for my harmony arrangement of two traditional shetland fiddle tunes. A compilation of traditional and original melodies a newer edition than we have with extra tunes, including this waltz sweet journeys waltz, page 81. I started downloading them when ever i stumbled across one and, after awhile, found out that i had a pretty good collection of tunes in various pdf files. Shetland tunes are very popular in the area where live and i hear them played a lot. These microtiming variations dictate the rhythmic flow of a performed melody, and contribute, among other things, to the suitability of this music as an accompaniment to dancing. He has appeared at the edinburgh folk festival, the glasgow celtic connections festival, and five times at the shetland folk festival. Aly and i are of an age and i remember him starting out at the side of the late great. Dance bands musicians fiddlers singers folk groups monologues. These are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif and or in abc notation.
A 100 minute tutorial on shetland fiddle playing, taught by kevin henderson, one of shetlands finest players. Known as the hamefarin, it was an organized return trip to their native. List of popular scottish fiddle tunes yes, again on the. Most modern versions are based on martins slightlycrooked recorded versions of the tune he was recorded several times in the 1940s by library of congress field personnel, including alan lomax in 1942, and martin gave the title. The henry reed collection american folklife center 280 american memory 254 the library of congress celebrates the songs of america 184. High quality digital sheet music for violin and piano, famous fiddle tunes and songs, from the red desert violin basic fiddling book 1 by loralyn staples, lyrics, chords, guitar lead sheet and violin fingerings included. Common session tunes from bluegrass, oldtime, english. Inspired by richard hefners website ezfolk, this simplified version of up on the housetop rooftop is one of my favorite christmas tunes for the banjo. A source of traditional fiddle tunes as well as original tunes this page features traditional tunes that have come across my path some are very common and wellknown tunes, and others are rather obscure tunes that have been rewarding to find and learn. The score also includes a separate page of just the melody lines. Download the file and use acrobat reader to print the pages you want.
This is a lovely book, which starts with tunes at beginner level fingerings marked and has text in shetland dialect. For the tab, eadgbe standard tuning for the guitar is assumed. In wider shetland musical circles, he was a driving force in the organisation of shetlands first folk festival in 1981, and its arguable that others took inspiration, and gave shetland its accordion and fiddle festival, blues festival, guitar festival, its fiddle frenzy fiddle school and others, while fiddle tuition in schools led to guitar. Full rigged ship new rigged ship fiddle harmony sheet music. These sheet music are mostly traditional celtic music, but some are world music, classical music, or popular music. Thistune,sojohnstickleinformedme,wasusedforakindofkibydance seref. If you discover a tune listed that has a composer, please. Dunwoodie describes the set as, brisk, bouncy, and fun. Customs gap gtr tab aka tuttles reel practice video moderate. Thank you to ruth mainland and mary wood for putting the calendar together. The charles gore index, which covers thcollections of the 18, 19th and a few in the early part of the 20th century, contains over 12,000 published tunes. A larger list of scottish music collections is available through the potomac. Free sheet music for fiddlers the scottish fiddle orchestra. The shetland fiddlers society is a group of fiddlers from shetland that play regularly for shetland folk dance and perform at events such as shetlands folk festival and accordion and fiddle festival the society had its origin in may 1960, when the first big postwar social event organized in shetland took place.
These treble clef tunes are suitable for fiddle, flute, trumpet, clarinet, or any other. He plays many styles, but has a large repertoire of scottish fiddle tunes, which he plays either solo for private functions or with his ceilidh band quicksilver. Fiddle tips and resources on the web bite your own elbow. The northumbrian minstrelsy is a collection i resurrected from an abc file.
It is widely accepted that the fiddle was first introduced to the northern isles at the beginning of the eighteenth century by hanseatic traders. Bryan gear and violet tulloch launch shetland arts third fiddle tune book kebister head and other fiddle tunes composed, or as played, by bobby peterson. Shetland fiddle tune books originally posted by nigel gatherer among others, one of johns links was for tom andersons book haand me doon da fiddle which is an excellent book for shetland tunes. Sep 15, 2016 the flowers of edinburgh sheet music traditional scottish reel. Tune collections on the internet these are free collections of tunes in graphic format gif, jpg, pdf, png, or tif andor in abc notation. This set of three are not commonly put together as a set, but they seem to work ok. Shetland folk society, printed by the shetland times.
Randy miller, includes tunes from new england, ireland, scotland, shetland. Featuring bobby jamieson, andrew polson, gibbie gray, tom anderson, george sutherland, bobby peterson, william hunter, etc. The shetland fiddler i know this by heart, but the version i learnt was played by a scottish dance band in the 60s more slowly and without the triplets. Also, a special calendar was produced for the 90th anniversary which has sold very well. All the tunes on the cd are played individually for easy. Owing to this, along with dutch herring fleets and temporary emigration by shetlanders during years of. The ballad air and the fiddle tune are related, with the fiddle tune being more ornate and elaborate. Extra festival events 31st shetland folk f estiyal. Full rigged ship new rigged ship fiddle harmony sheet music by celtic fiddle music georgia nettleton, released 23 may 2014 1. Each pdf file has all the pages and parts for each set. Ive linked some of richards music files to play along with. Barb bycroft 2010 barbs 200 celtic tunes page 2 index to songs song page song page afton waters 6 galway shawl 15 all around my hat 6 im a rover 16.
The tunes are in the midi format, so will only take seconds to download. Archived files can be found at the bottom of the page. A fine fiddle player, trevor does justice to the northast of scotland style of playing. It contains a significant proportion of the standard traditional shetland tune repertoire, together with some of toms own compositions and one or two by a very young steven spence.
Tune collections on the internet bite your own elbow. I also heard it played by bobby crowe in the old cuparfife accordeon and fiddle clup around 1983. Source is the phillips collection of traditional american fiddle tunes. Thomas stove running for a fry and other shetland fiddle.
Includes many oldtime tunes, also with downloadable pdf versions. You can have a look yourself search results music the shetland times bookshop uk the shetland times bookshop books a collection of 24 fiddle tunes complete with demonstration cd featuring all of the. Having just seen the thread with the shetland fiddle tunes, i was reminded that ive never seen a dedicated shetland fiddle tune book. Aaaa origins unclear scottishshetlandirish the shetland fiddler 1 6 1. Transcriptions and audio files of over 550 traditional fiddle tunes from old. Recordings illustrating not only the distinctive arts of the older fiddlers, but also the way the tradition is moving. He presents them here in very neat manuscript form, with plenty of background info, plus chord symbols. Oliver jack, da delting bridal march, vallafield, da trowie burn and ahint da dykes o voe to demonstrate each tune, kevin is joined on guitar by shetland violin maker ewen thomson the lessons culminate in a sessionstyle set. You can use the provided midi files to help you determine the proper tempo. Bobby casey 1926 2000was a renowned fiddle player from annagh a town nearmiltown.
A warm welcome and personal touch to each individual was evident. The tunes are mostly ones commonly played in music sessions from the irish, bluegrass, oldtime, english, canadian, scottish and european traditions. This work aims to characterize microtiming variations in traditional shetland fiddle music. All these fiddle sheet music as well as the midi and mp3 files can be downloaded for free. Mp3s, sheet music and tune books for learning canaan. Tune collections on the internet mickey koth, fiddler, music librarian. These are jpg images, and you should be able to display them in your browser andor print them. Click on the tune name for the sheet music pdf file, the piano keys piano keys.
Fiddling styles of shetland have more in common with bowing styles of scandinavia than those of mainland scotland. Fiddle frenzy artistic evaluation assessment august 2008. Pdf digital sheet music to download and print, interactive sheet music. Microtiming analysis in traditional shetland fiddle music. Shetland fiddler thomas gideon stove, grandson of gideon stove, has written many tunes, inspired by people, places and events. When i first got interested in playing irish and scottish music, i did a search of the web and found a slew of tunebooks that people put together for their sessions. Tune of the month, fiddling sheet music, midis, mp3s, videos. New rigged ship full rigged ship pdf sheet music harmony. Its not hard to find scottish books that will have shetland tunes in them, but does anyone know of any in print books dedicated to shetland fiddle tunes. About the volume and development of scottish fiddle and folk music the number of published scottish fiddle tunes runs into the thousands. A random assortment of resources for sheet music, tablature, lyrics and recordings of mostly american traditional music. You can also save the pdf to your computer for use on any device that can read pdf files ipad, kindle, etc.
How willafjord was found the scottish fiddle orchestra. It was the shetland version of a story told by the late mickey doherty of county donegal. Then, overnight, between the goodreader app for reading pdf files and the. In this case, the music notation is stored as either an image file for individual pages or pdf for full collections, and, while requiring. Including fiddlers bid, the chair, willie hunter, the cullivoe fiddlers, catriona macdonald, fiona driver and more orkney and shetland fiddle players. Complete citations to the printed sources in the lists may be found in the bibliography at the end of the pamphlet. One reoublic secrets violin sheet music free download as pdf file. The flowers of edinburgh sheet music traditional scottish reel. Appears in a list of traditional ozark mountain fiddle tunes recorded by musicologist vance randolph for the library of congress in the 1940s. Full rigged ship new rigged ship my arrangement of the set of shetland fiddle tunes full rigged ship and new rigged ship in three part harmony for three violins with chords for accompaniment.
Tunes included are sleep soond in the morning and willafjord. A prolific composer of fiddle tunes and a superb player, he is perhaps best remembered for his work in teaching young fiddlers and for his role in preserving shetland s musical heritage. Please click on link to view a printable sheet music in pdf format. Fiddle frenzy is an exciting and unique opportunity to experience an intimate musical and cultural festival in shetland. This page features traditional tunes that have come across my path some are very common and wellknown tunes, and others are rather obscure tunes that have been rewarding to find and learn. Thomas stove running for a fry and other shetland fiddle tunes. They comprised of 20 childrcn from all over shetland and range from primary five to secondary one and appeared with their teachers henderson and debbie scott.
Kevin teaches five classic shetland tunes in this tutorial, breaking each one down in detail, pausing for tips and exercises along the way. Old time fiddle tunes penn state mechanical engineering. Orkney, like shetland, has a long history of fiddle music, but without champions such as tom anderson or aly bain, orkney music is. Devil in the hay stack gtr tab practice video moderate. The shetland set is a medley of two traditional shetland fiddle tunes, arranged for three lever or pedal harps by anna dunwoodie. The little house behind the barn translated to our dialect its. A key person in the musical history of the shetland island was tom anderson 19101991 he is widely credited with saving and reviving the fiddle tradition of the shetland islands. Long out of print, but considered to be the source for donegal style fiddling.
The midis are pretty crude, of course, but will at least give you the. Aly travels the world, sometimes with accordion player phil cunningham, sharing his passion not only for the fiddle but for shetlands fiddle tunes. Celtic fiddling, free sheet music, mp3s, midis, videos. The escape key will stop the intro music if necessary. Below is a list of celtic tunes mostly irish with sheet music and chords. Fiddle collection, famous fiddle tunes sheet music for. Tunes and info this list of chunze is for those who want to pack just an essentials session kit.