Breton/Galician etc tune collection

Hi

In all the years i listen to celtic music, it allways seamed that the irish/scottish kind is the most active/popular.
In my country (switzerland) is everything irish whats kind of celtic music. Even from calicia or nothern italy.
For myself i like all kinds of playing, i just love the sound af the instruments and the flow of melodies.

But its really difficult to find some breton or galician tune collections.
Do you know something similar to the session but with breton,… tunes?

Thanks a best regards L

Tonioù Breizh-Izel
Polig Monjarret
Musique Populaire de Basse-Bretagne

Web searches for particular tunes or tune types often bring up sites with collections. A quick try found this https://www.partitions.bzh Is that the sort of thing you seek?

(I searched “hanter dro partition” without the quotes)

Dave Surette, a well-known and fine New England musician who died in late 2021, published a well-regarded collection:

https://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Breton-Dance-Tunes-Breizh/dp/0786682752

For Galician tunes try

https://folkotecagalega.gal/pezas

Loads of material there.

No abc version immediately available, but each file can be audio previewed in the browser and downloaded in xml, PDF, and MIDI for onward processing

Jim Oakden and Shira Kammen run regular Breton tunes workshops, looks and sounds like this (tune in the video is Scottish, sorry) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4l4du_8No0

play video

Excerpts from Jim Oakden Breton tune list are here: https://library.larkcamp.org/Breton/Breton.html

I do not have a public download link for the full list, but I can send you a copy if you PM me.

+1 for David Surette (RIP)

The book “The Celtic Fiddler” (selected Edward Huws Jones) has tunes from Ireland, Isle of Man, Galicia (5 tunes), Wales, Brittany (4 tunes), Cornwall and Scotland. It also a pleasant play-along CD. I’ve found it enjoyable.

Breton music books that I’ve found in Google Books are at the link below. This should be publicly accessible.

https://books.google.com/books?uid=100454840071925516008&as_coll=1014&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list