 | Last Night's Fun: A Book About Irish Traditional Music by Ciaran Carson
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $5.00 a brilliant little gem of a book, which explores the meaning, feel, and culture of traditional session music in 31 essay stories of poetic prose; outstanding!
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 | Macpherson's Rant and Other Tales of the Scottish Fiddle by Stuart McHardy
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $9.00 collected oral histories and folklore of famous Scottish fiddlers, fiddle tune, and fiddle lore; light and fun
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 | Poems and Songs (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Burns
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.01 Burns wrote, improved, and collected some of the greatest of Scotland's traditional songs
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 | The Merry Muses of Caledonia: A Collection of Favourite Scots Songs, Ancient & Modern, Selected for Use of the Crochallan Fencibles by Robert Burns
Buy new: $90.00 / Used from: $49.75 Burns compiled this collection of bawdy songs, some that he found and others that he wrote; usually not included in more "respectable" editions of his work
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 | The Book of the Bagpipe by Hugh Cheape
Buy used from: $3.69 great information on bagpipes, bagpipe music, and bagpipe history; nicely illustrated with a useful bibliography
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 | Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 by John G. Gibson
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $19.95 a fascinating book on an all but disappeared style of bagpiping and the culture that disappeared with it
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 | The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 5 Volume Set by Francis James Child
Buy new: $85.25 / Used from: $110.00 Child was a proto-ethnomusicologist, and his collection of ballads is a foundation document for all such that came after; essential
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 | Ballads into Books: The Legacies of Francis James Child by Wales) International Ballad Conference 1996 (Swansea
More of the proto-ethnomusicologist and his famous collection of ballads
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 | Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland, & Wales
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $8.00 an enjoyable collection of traditional songs from all parts of the British Isles
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 | Field Guide to the Irish Music Session: An Authoritative Guide to Enjoying Irish Traditional Music in its Natural Habitat by Barry Foy
Buy used from: $29.62 excellent guide and crib sheet for understanding the rules and etiquette of the Irish Session
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 | Mel Bay O'Neill's Music of Ireland
Buy new: $35.00 / Used from: $23.02 The most important collection of traditional Irish tunes; another must have
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 | Seventy Scottish Songs
Buy used from: $4.00 another great early collection of songs (1905) , this time concentrating on Scotland
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 | Moore's Irish Melodies: With Music of Turlough O'Carolan, Slow Aires, Dance Tunes, & Harmonized Vocal Arrangements
Buy used from: $33.70 Thomas Moore was a famous Irish poet and collector and improver of traditional Irish music; this collection contains many tunes from Ireland's most famous harper
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 | Ireland the Songs by Various
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.47 First of a set of four song books collecting traditional Irish pub tunes, complete with guitar cords; these books are quite attractive, and contain great photos from the famous Father Brown collection
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 | Ireland the Songs Book Two by Assorted
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.99 |
 | Ireland the Songs Book Three by Assorted
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.77 |
 | Ireland the Songs Book Four by Assorted
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.99 |
 | Bringing It All Back Home: The Influence of Irish Music at Home and Overseas by Nuala O'Connor
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $4.65 a social history of Irish music, how and why it left home, and came back again
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