Edited by Dave Mallinson, this book contains a selection of English country dance tunes, the very backbone and life blood of the English traditional music scene. You’ll observe that many of the tunes aren’t exactly English but within this book you'll find the repertoire that crops up in sessions and at dances across the country.
Also available:
CD of the tunes in English Country Dance Tunes
Mally's English Pub Session Tunes
Mally's Popular English Session Tunes
List of Tunes:
A Life on the Ocean Wave
A Man's a Man for A' That
Aiken Drum
Another Jig Will Do
Ap Shenkin
Banish Misfortune
Barney Brannigan
Beatrice Hill’s Three Handed
Big Rock Candy Mountains
Boil ‘em Cabbage Down
Bonny Breast Knot
Bonny Dundee
Bottom of the Punchbowl
Chinese Breakdown
Cindy
Circassian Circle
Come, Let Us Dance and Sing
Corn Rigs
Dixie
Dorset Four Hand Reel No. 1
Dorset Four Hand Reel No. 2
Double Lead Through
Drumdelgie
Durham Rangers
Father Kelly's Jig
Finnegan's Wake
Galopede
Golden Slippers
Goodbye Girls
Green Grow the Rushes-o
Gussie
Haste to Wedding
Herbert Smith’s Four Hand
Here We Go Round Mulberry
Highland Laddie
Horses’ Brawl
Jack’s Maggot
Jeanie's Blue E'en
Jumping Cactus
La Russe
Little Diamond
Marching through Georgia
Miss Forbes' Farewell
My Love Is Like a Red Rose
Newcastle
Orange and Blue
Pay the Reckoning
Peacock Followed the Hen
Petronella
Phillebelula All the Way
Polly Wolly Doodle
Pop Goes the Weasel
Proudlock's Hornpipe
Sellenger’s Round
Sir Roger de Coverley
Some Say the Devil's Dead
Swedish Masquerade
Tavern in the Town
Teribus
The Arkansas Traveller
The Bear Dance
The Big Corral
The Blarney Pilgrim
The Boston Burglar
The Bourton Six
The Cumberland Reel
The Dashing White Sergeant
The Duke of Perth
The East Neuk of Fife
The Fandango
The Flop-Eared Mule
The Friendly Visit
The Gentle Maiden
The Geud Man o' Ballangigh
The Goathland Square Eight
The Greenwood Tree
The Haymakers' Jig
The Heel and Toe Polka
The Humours of Donnybrook
The Lass o’ Gowrie
The Magic Slipper
The Morpeth Rant
The Orkney Rope Waltz
The Road to Boston
The Road to the Isles
The Scartaglen Polka
The Sheffield Hornpipe
The Ship in Full Sail
The Sidbury Four Hand Reel
The Sussex Polka
The Sweets of May
The Tempest
The Thistle of Scotland
The Triumph
The Year of Jubilo
This Old Man
Three Meet
Turkey in the Straw
Twelve Reel
Voulez Vous Danser
What Can the Matter Be?
