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With Fife and Drum
This CD comes with Gary’s excellent book of the same name, which is essential reading for anyone interested in the Fifing tunes of Ulster and in the Lambeg tradition.
The sub heading for the book is - "Music, memories and customs of an Irish tradition".
The book contains around 70 excellent wee Fifing tunes which any self respecting Whistle or Flute player would be only to pleased to add to his repertoire.
The CD is an invaluable insight into this rich tradition.
List of tunes presented in the book (and now on CD & CDROM?)
http://www.cylist.com/List/404567043/ lists them all.
I don’t remember a CD in the version above being included in the book, the last time I borrowed it (thought the publication date, 2004, seems to coincide…) but, at any rate, it will give you an overview of the scores that form the last part of this book.
1689 n a’ that
Ptarmigan, tell the truth, did you wait on purpose for the Recording No1689 to come up (see address window) to enter this book?!
"With Fife And Drum: Music, memories and customs from an Irish Tradition"
book & CD ~ Gary Hastings
The Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2003
ISBN: 0-85640-709-7
http:www.blackstaffpress.com/
~ including sheet music for 72 fifing tunes…
Ptarmigan’s details of the tracks:
_1. ) Open The Door
_2. ) Willy Nicholl Lilting
_3. ) The Little Beggar Man - Drummed By Frank Orr
_4. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - How He Learned To Fife
_5. ) Ballymena Time - Drummed By Frank Orr
_6. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - Why Hornpipe Time Is Used
_7. ) Loughgall Time - Drummed By Frank Orr
_8. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - Talking About Stave Drums
_9. ) Tandragee Time - Drummed By Frank Orr
10. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - Hibernian & Lambeg Drumming
11. ) Frank Orr Drumming
12. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - Lilting Tune In Jig & Fife Time
13. ) Richard And Darryn Sterrit - ‘stick-in’ Drumming
14. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl
15. ) Maids On The Green
16. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - Sings An Initiation Song
17. ) Conversation With Willy Nicholl - Lilts The ‘Lilibolero’ (Protestant Boys)
THIS is the demo CD I meant, as presented at the above link, where both Gary Hastings & Willy Nicholl are credited for all tracks:
1. (00:04)
2. The Banks of Kellswater (00:37)
3. The Boys of Belfast (00:25)
4. Paddy O’Carroll (00:26)
5. Open the Door (00:26)
6. The Heights of Alma (00:26)
7. The Irishman’s hornpipe (00:26)
8. The Russian Retreat (00:35)
9. I lost my love (00:26)
10. A Hundred Pipers (00:36)
11. One Bottle More (00:26)
12. Blue Bonnets over the border (00:25)
13. The Grand spy (00:24)
14. Maids in the green (00:26)
15. Gold in every pocket (00:27)
16. Boyne water (00:23)
17. Leaving the Battlefield (00:24)
18. The Boys of Sandy Row (00:23)
19. The Bugle Hornpipe (00:23)
20. The Blanch’s hornpipe (00:24)
21. Pretty girls from Ahoghill (00:26)
22. Boney’s retreat (00:24)
23. The Rakes of Coleraine (00:23)
24. The Dainty gay thing (00:23)
25. The Steamboat (00:23)
26. The Morning Star Reel (00:23)
27. Davey Brown’s farewell (00:25)
28. The Tinware lass (00:23)
29. The Hangman’s hornpipe (00:28)
30. The Culbert lodge (00:23)
31. The Rose tree (00:24)
32. The Grange Orange Hall (00:23)
33. The Dublin volunteers (00:24)
34. Sloan’s hornpipe (00:24)
35. King Edward the Seventh (00:25)
36. Number 5 (00:25)
37. Young men in their bloom (00:25)
38. The Blueberry blossom (00:24)
39. Orange and blue (00:25)
40. Donnybrook fair (00:24)
41. The Battle of Garvagh (00:25)
42. Jackson’s return (00:28)
43. The London Hornpipe (00:25)
44. The West Hornpipe (00:25)
45. The Bogtown Lasses (00:26)
46. The Strawberry Blossom (00:25)
47. The Cuckoo’s nest (00:47)
48. The Hatter’s hornpipe (00:23)
49. Maguire’s (00:46)
50. The Blackbird from Clough (00:24)
51. (00:04)
52. (00:04)
53. The Pansy Blossom (00:24)
54. Highland whiskey (00:29)
55. Boney’s grand march (00:24)
56. Bard’s legacy (00:35)
57. Wullie’s tune (00:27)
58. The Purple Rocket (00:24)
59. The West End Hornpipe (00:25)
60. (00:04)
61. The Liverpool Hornpipe (00:24)
62. The New hornpipe (00:25)
63. The Panthon dance (00:31)
64. Bonapart’s hornpipe (00:31)
65. (00:04)
66. The Englishman’s hornpipe (00:26)
67. Speed the plough (00:23)
68. Hillstown orange hall (00:27)
69. The Mountain (03:00)
70. CDROM track (00:49)
Note that there are less than 72 tunes presented here.