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John & William Neal

A Collection of the Most Celebrated IrishTunes 

proper for the violin, German Flute or hautboy

Dublin 1724

Now available (October 2010)

Second revised and enlarged facsimile edition. Edited with introduction & notes by Nicholas Carolan

Cover of Neal 2nd edition   Dublin: Irish Traditional Music Archive in association with the Folk Music Society of Ireland, 2010. xiv, 118 pp. ISBN 9780953270439 (hbk.)

Only one copy of the original is known to exist

Available from http://www.itma.ie/Publications/Publications.html

(First edition, Dublin, FMSI, 1986, ISBN 0-905733-01-0, is out of print)

CONTENTS

Section 1 General Introduction

Foreword to First Edition

 Foreword to Second Edition

List of Illustrations

Introduction

The Celebrated Irish Tunes, and its reception;  Background: Violin, German Flute or Hautboy;  Italian Music;  Music in Dublin;  Music Publishing

John and William Neal

Neal Publications

Lorenso Bocchi

The Celebrated Irish Tunes:  Description;  Date of Publication;  Sources of the Tunes;  The Music of the Tunes;  Motivations;  This Edition

Notes to Introduction

Section 2 Facsimile of Collection

A COLECTION of the most Celebrated Irish Tunes proper for the Violin German Flute or Hautboy

1 King of the Blind

2 Ye Clarges Lamentation

3 Sqr. Woodes`s Lamentation on ye Refusuall of his HALF PENCE

4 Da mihi manum

5 Thomas Burk

6 Eiry na Greany

7 Molly Halfpenny

8 Planksty Plunket

9 Plea Rarkeh na Rourkough or ye Irish weding improved with diferent divitions after ye Italian maner with A bass and Chorus by Sigr. LORENZO BOCCHI

10 Counr. MacDonoghs Lamentation

11 Shea sude shear an Rode a Dima shee

12 Capten MAGAN

13 Creamonea

14 Tom Judge

15 Ta me ma Chulla’s na doushe me

16 Radara meen Chusogh

17 Fairy Queen by sigr Carrollini

18 MABLE KELLY

19 Cuckoo

20 lshabele Burk

21 Raddire en Ougnish

22 Catty Magee

23 Can duh Dilish

24 Seperation of Soul and Body

25 Sheen sheesh igus souse lum

26 Vaccatu en starri dugh

27 Ye Joynter

28 Challeeny vacca shu sheorshe

29 Clanuff’s delight

30 Luke Dillon by Carrollan

31 Voyden drid lum

32 PLANKSTY

33 Shuseen Bane

34 Carrollans Devotion

35 Ld. Gallaways Lanientation

36 Lady St. John

37 Morgan Macgann

38 Molly st. GEORGE

39 Gye Fiane

40 sr. Ulick BURK

41 Limbric’'s lamentation

42 Gracee NUGENT by Carrallan

43 Ye Bockagh

44 Patrick Sarsfild

45 Ye RAGG set by A gentleman

46 Fanny DILLON

47 Ye Lord Mayos delight

48 Stary ghed ina lousa Voem gigga

49 Ye Trugh

Notes to the tunes

Index to the tunes

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