This collection of 23 striking and varied Celtic melodies arranged for solo guitar in altered tunings is presented in tablature and standard notation. The selection spans the Irish, Scots, Welsh and Manx traditions over three centuries and includes slow airs, reels, jigs, hornpipes and strathspeys.

Songs are:

  A Honeyed Lip
Humours of Castle Comer
Mabel Kelly
The Sheep Under the Snow
Morgan Magan
The Lark in the Clear Air
When Christ was Born
The Monaghan Jig
Niel Gow’s Lament
for the Death of His Second Wife
Port Atholl
Off to California
The Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow
Glenlivet
Castle Drummond
Mrs Jamieson’s Favourite
The Golden Keyboard
The Musical Priest
Chapel Keithack
The Rosewood Jig
Madame Bonaparte
Lord Mayo
Farewell to Whisky
The Marquis of Huntly’s Strathspey