General Music

100 Great Scottish Songs - With words and music - These attractively packaged kits contain your favorite Scottish and Irish songs on both CD and book. If you are not familiar with how the song goes, listen to it on the CD, then you can sing or play it with the piano or guitar.

100 Irish Ballads with words and music - This book and CD contains your favorite Irish ballads on both book and CD. If you are not familiar with how the song goes, listen to it on the CD.

Alexander Walker Collection of 19th Century Scottish Fiddle Tunes A book of 19th century Scottish fiddle tunes, originally published in 1866, the new edition has been carefully produced presenting the music in a horizontal single line melody format. The repertoire is diverse...from slow airs to driving reels; from simple to complex; from ecstatic to pathetic: 196 melodies for every mood. The compositional style is akin to the style of many 20th century Cape Breton composers and performers.

Auld Scottish Songs Book 1 - This collection of books has some great music in it. The books contain the words and Piano music for a ton of great favorites. There are two volumes available.

Auld Scottish Songs Book 2 - This collection of books has some great music in it. The books contain the words and Piano music for a ton of great favorites. There are two volumes available.

Brenda Stubbert's Collection of Fiddle Tunes - Brenda, an accomplished fiddler, piano accompanist and step dancer is steeped in Cape Breton dance music traditions. A great talent as composer and player.

The Second Collection - by Jerry Holland - This collection contains over 300 tunes including 100 new Holland compositions. This volume is the fifth in the Cape Breton Musical Heritage Series.

Lighthouse Collection - by Paul Cranford - Includes jigs, reels, marches, strathspeys, airs and pipe tunes. Something for everyone. Also includes a CD with 18 tracks of many of the tune in the book.

Scottish Songs & Ballads - This series of books is a great collection of Scottish Songs and Ballads. There are over 50 songs in each book. Each book contains the words to the songs as well as the music and guitar cords so that your friends can play and sing along with you.

Simon Fraser Collection -

The Simon Fraser Collection brings together the Airs and Melodies peculiar to the Highlands and The Isles from 1715 to 1745. Many of the over 240 Airs in this book are Captain Fraser's instrumental settings of Gaelic songs derived from the singing of his father, grandfather and their acquaintances. Other tunes are a mixture of traditional and newly composed strathspeys, reels and jigs from this time period. The music in this book is especially written for those who play the piano, harp, organ and fiddle. People interested in this type of music will be aware of the Simon Fraser Collection due to the history that it is part of. The product has been unavailable for years, which makes it a very popular item.

Soodlum's Irish Tin Whistle Tutor - Written with each note in every tune fully diagrammed, enabling the beginner to play immediately.

The Harp and Claymore - by J. Scott Skinner - This classic collection, recently reprinted, is comprised of pastorals, marches, strathspeys and reels, hornpipes, laments and songs in memory of a romantic and patriotic past. Music is provided for voice, violin, bagpipe and piano.