A couple of weeks ago I recommended the reprint of "1000 Fiddle Tunes",
now reincarnated as "Ryan's Mammoth Collection 1050 Reels and Jigs", for
horn practice in sight-reading, transposition, warm-up exercises, gifts,
arpeggio practice, Kopprasch substitutes, playing along with a pianist
who can figure out proper chords on the fly. The book is cheap at
Amazon. You might want to replace the binding with a stay-open coil
binding.
For the reluctant here, now I recommend a website that I just stumbled
on that has many such tunes, both as sheet music and midi files. You
can download them freely; some of the music jpgs are too small to be
practical, but most are easy to read on screen. The website is
"Lorrie's Treasure Trove of Tunes" at:
http://www.geocities.com/lkreardon/NewFiddleTunes.html
Very much fun, and free! I stumbled on this site by doing an
image-google search on the word 'hornpipe'. Try it - you will see many
images of playable music. There may well be other extensive sites like
this one.
David Goldberg
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