Beautiful Airs & Ballads of The British Isles
[Solo Fingerstyle Ukulele]
In this collection of 23 melodies from the British Isles, award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Ondrej Sarek treats the soprano ukulele as the lyrical solo instrument it can truly be. Along with fingerstyle arrangements of traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing, and the timeless melodies of Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan, the book includes settings of a few original tunes by Mel Bay Publications president, William Bay.
All arrangements appear in gCEA tuning in standard notation and uke tablature with suggested backup chords and occasional light fingering.
| Featured Product | Yes |
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| Arranger/Editor | Ondrej Sarek |
| Composer | VARIOUS |
| Availability | Available |
| TAB/Notation | Music Notation PLUS TAB |
| Level of Difficulty | 3 |
| Description | In this collection of 23 melodies from the British Isles, award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Ondrej Sarek treats the soprano ukulele as the lyrical solo instrument it can truly be. Along with fingerstyle arrangements of traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing, and the timeless melodies of Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan, the book includes settings of a few original tunes by Mel Bay Publications president, William Bay. An Drochshaol (The Hard Times)
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Cailin Deas Cr ite na mB (Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow)
Call the Ewes
Down by the Sally Gardens
Fair Flower of Northumberland
Fields of Culloden
I Went to Visit the Roses
Irish Prayer
Jock O’Hazeldean
John Anderson, My Jo
My Irish Home
Once I Had a Sweetheart
Scarborough Fair
She Moved Through the Fair
Sheebeg and Sheemor
Star of the County Down
The Flowers of Sweet Erin the Green
The Galway Shawl
The Marsh of Rhuddlan
The Shearing’s Not for You
The Water Is Wide
Wild Mountain Thyme |