Celtic/Irish sheet music

[liszt-essence]

Hello guys,

I am looking for celtic music. This genre has always had a special meaning to me and I want to play this type of music on the piano.

Also, if you happen to have some links or info on celtic music especially concerning improvisation or chords. You'd be most welcome.

[allthumbs]

Having a few composer names/pieces would be helpful.

[dnephi]

MacDowell wrote some Scottish-flavored music.

[retrouvailles]

Arnold Bax had lots of Irish/Celtic influence in his music.

[rhapsody4]

Peter Maxwell-Davies: an Orkney-based musician has an unique Celtic influence to his music. Most well known for the minimalist(ish) piece, "Farewell to Stromness".

[liszt-essence]

Thank you all, im getting the farewell to stromness soon.

Thing is, I don't know any composers that wrote celtic music for the piano..

But im going to try the names you have listed here.

[oscarr111111]

I play, write and gig in this style.  Due to the folk tradition of passing music on purely by ear tunes often go by lots of different names and are usually long detached from the author, as well as there being countless variations of everything.

This site has a lot of tunes with harmony:
https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/irish-folk-music/index.htm
https://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/traditional-music/index.htm

This site is more community driven but often lacks harmony, folk tunes are VERY easy to reharmonise though:
https://www.thesession.org/

This BBC page is great for playing along with:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/folk/sessions/

[khantallis123]

Henry Cowell wrote a very rare piece of music called the Dancing Irishman. It is NOT part of the Irish Legends, though. Henry Purcell set Lillibullero, an anonymous English, French or Celtic tune
to "A New Irish Tune".
earlymusician.weebly.com has arrangements and original English and Celtic pieces, as well as other genres: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Easy music, etc.

[throwawaynotreally]

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