The Butlers of Glen Avenue, a jig composed by Tony Sullivan, played on tin whistle & with sheet music and fingering charts (tabs) for tin whistle
6 Irish tunes you can play at Thanksgiving, for tin whistle, with audio recordings, sheet music & whistle tabs (fingering charts). Scroll to the bottom of the page to download the free pdf sheet music booklet.
It is a New England Autumn in 1621. The beautiful gold and crimson leaves
contribute to the festive atmosphere that blankets Plimoth village. The smell of
roasting Turkeys adds to the ambience. The little village’s fifty English settlers
are preparing a harvest festival in celebration of having survived the previous
year’s great hardships and brought in their first crops in the New World.
Tin whistle tabs, sheet music & audio for 5 Irish tunes for Halloween, some spooky and some not so spooky! I play each tune at moderate speed with ornamentation. Scroll to the bottom of the page for download links, including free tin whistle sheet music pdf file. The music is played on a Dixon Trad whistle.
The pagan Hallowe’en at the end of summer was a time of grief for the decline of the sun’s glory, as well as a harvest festival of thanksgiving to him for having ripened the grain and fruit
The Rose in the Heather (jig) – played on Tin Whistle
The Rolling Wave, jig played on tin whistle. From the book Irish Music – 400 Traditional Tunes.
Here are 5 easy tin whistle tunes for beginners, complete with sheet music, whistle tabs and audio files, from the Tin Whistle for Beginners book & audio collection. The tunes here are all accessible to beginners, although it may take some time & practice to get them up to speed! I play them slowly in the audio files, both with & without ornamentation. Download link to the sheet music pdf at the end of this page. The tunes are typical irish dance tunes : jigs & reels, with a slide and a march.
The tunes :
Around the World for Sport (Reel)
Brian Boru’s March
The Dunmore Lasses (Reel)
Geese in the Bog (Jig)
O’Keefe’s (Slide)
Maloney’s Wife, jig on Irish flute
The Battering Ram : an unusual setting from the music of Jim Donoghue of this common Irish jig, played below on Irish wooden flute.
The Rambling Pitchfork, jig played on Tin Whistle. Audio recording included with the book Irish Music – 400 Traditional Tunes
The Humours of Glendart, Jig, audio recording from the book Tin Whistle – A Complete Guide to Playing Irish Traditional Music on the Whistle
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