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Michael Tubridy
A selection of Irish traditional step dances, Dublin, Brooks Academy, 1998, A4, xviii + 72 pp, ISBN 0-9533637-0-8 with accompanying tutor audio cassette (M. Tubridy flute solo with spoken instructions)
The traditional step dances of Ireland have been passed on orally for several hundred years, with no record of them ever having been written down. In this book, for the first time in their history, they are presented in book form.Using a system newly devised by himself, Michael Tubridy, the well-known musician and dancer, has prepared written transcriptions of nine traditional dances, including such famous pieces as ‘The Blackbird’ and ‘St. Patrick’s Day’.
Used in conjuction with direct instruction from a dancing master, these transcriptions should facilitate the learning of these dances and make them more widely accessible than ever before.
The accompanying audio cassette has, on side one, verbal instructions and the tunes played slowly on the flute (playable independently if desired on stereo equipment).
Side two has solo flute versions of the same tunes at normal speed.
Tunes:
The Priest and his Boots (double jig)
The Harvest Home (hornpipe)
Single Time (single jig)
Miss McLeod’s reel (polka version)
The Rocky Road to Dublin (slip jig)
The Job of Journeywork (4:4 time set dance)
Father O’Flynn (double jig)
Saint Patrick’s Day (6:8 time set dance)
The Blackbird (4:4 time set dance)
Book and tape available from Brooks Academy, c/o Na Píobairí Uilleann, 15 Henrietta Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.
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