Description
Herbert Hughes was an Irish born music critic, composer & an active participant in the Irish Cultural Revival. An avid supporter of folk music, he helped to found the Irish Folksong Society. This highlights edition contains the best-loved of Hughes' classic arrangements of traditional Irish melodies, for voice + piano accompaniment, with English lyrics (+ Irish for *). Set for ABRSM Examinations 2018 onwards Singing Grade 2 (List A: I Will Walk with My Love), Grade 3 (List A: I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue or I Know Where I'm Goin') & Grade 4 (List A: Down by the Salley Gardens) + Trinity Examinations 2023 onwards Singing Grade 4 (Group B: Leprechaun, The) & Grade 6 (Group B: She Moved through the Fair) & Trinity Music Certificate: Singing Foundation (I Know where I'm Goin')
Ballynure Ballad, A: Eb (bb-d") - County Antrim
Bard of Armagh, The: Ab (eb'-f") - County Tyrone
Black Ribbon-Band, The: G (d'-e")
Down by the Salley Gardens (Maids of Mourne Shore, The): Db (db'-eb")
Gartan Mother's Lullaby , The: D (d'-e") - County Donegal
Good Roarin' Fire, A: E (e'-e") - County Derry
I Have a Bonnet Trimmed with Blue: F (f'-d")
I Know My Love: F (c'-f") - West Irish
I Know Where I'm Goin': Ab (g'-eb") - County Antrim
I Will Walk with My Love: Ab (eb'-f") - County Dublin
Innisfree: G (d'-e")
Irish Elegy, An (Sixpence, The): F (d'-g")
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye!: A minor (e'-e")
Leprechaun, The: A minor (d'-g") - Limerick
Magpie's Nest, The: Bb (a-d") - Dublin
Monday Tuesday (Da Luain, da Mairt)*: Gb (d'-c") - Southern Counties
My Bonny Labouring Boy: Eb (eb'-f")
Next Market Day, The: F (a-c") - Ulster melody/Fragment of a Tyrone ballad
Oh Breathe Not His Name: Eb (c'-eb")
Old Turf Fire, The: F (b-e")
Rich and Rare (Summer is Coming, The): Db (db'-f")
Roisín Dubh (Little Black Rose): C minor (c'-f")
She Moved through the Fair: Ab (db'-eb") - County Donegal
Shule Agra: A minor (c'-e")
Star of the County Down, The: F# minor (c#'-e")
Tigaree Torum Orum: E (d#'-e")
Young Maid Stood in Her Father's Garden, A: Ab (eb'-f")
Tag: Singing Grade 3; Singing Grade 5; Singing Grade 6