C Chanter / D Drones Tunes
Here's a comprehensive list of pipe-feasible tunes from Francis O'Neill's "Music of Ireland" that are in the keys of E minor, A major, A minor, and various modes on E and A. As such, they're eligible candidates for the technique of combining a C chanter with D drones (or Bb chanter with C drones).
I. Airs | ||
Number | Title | Key |
28 | O'Connell's Lamentation | a minor |
58 | The Parting Glass | a Mixolydian |
76 | The Widow's Daughter | e minor |
84 | The Brink of the White Rocks | e minor |
87 | For Ireland I'd Not Tell Her Name | e minor |
156 | The Widowed Bride | e minor |
169 | As I Roved Out | A major |
216 | The Alewoman | e minor |
243 | The Fairy Boy | A major |
260 | The Boyne Water | e minor & A major |
266 | The Old Blind Bard | e minor |
269 | Burn's Farewell | a minor |
270 | The Church of Dromore | a minor |
290 | Green Shady Bowers | A major |
319 | One Wife is Enough For Me | a minor |
332 | Forget Not the Angels | e minor |
333 | Lough Sheeling | e minor |
347 | The Road to Hollyhill | A Mixolydian |
348 | The Weary Maid | a Dorian |
371 | Let Other Men Praise | A Mixolydian |
378 | There's an End to My Sorrow | a minor |
396 | Curse the Laws That Gave Me Cause | a minor |
397 | America Lies Far Away | a Dorian |
468 | Johnny Fill Up the Bowl (When Johnny Comes Marching Home) | a minor |
492 | The Lovers' Discourse | a minor |
580 | Bandon Bridge | a minor |
592 | Have You Seen My Valentine? | e minor |
II. O'Carolan's Tunes | ||
Number | Title | Key |
628 | Young Catherine | a minor |
653 | Dermot O'Dowd | a Dorian |
676 | Planxty Nancy Vernon | A major |
697 | Planxty Madam Crofton | e minor |
700 | O'Carolan's Farewell to Music | a minor |
III. Double Jigs | ||
Number | Title | Key |
729 | Contentment is Wealth | a minor |
735 | The Basket of Turf | e minor |
738 | The Merry Old Maid | e minor |
756 | The Templehouse Jig | e minor |
765 | The Miller of Glanmire | a minor |
787 | Dan Rogers' Jig | e minor |
858 | Lannigan's Ball | e minor |
859 | Hide and Go Seek | e minor |
913 | Humors of Castle Comer | e minor |
919 | The New Cloak | e minor |
940 | The Humors of Passage | e minor |
970 | The Unfortunate Rake | e minor |
993 | Lock the Door | e minor |
1000 | The Old Grey Goose | e minor |
1033 | The Monaghan Jig | e minor |
1084 | Sweet Biddy Daly | A major |
1104 | Come in From the Rain | e minor |
1111 | Apples in Winter | e minor |
IV. Slip Jigs | ||
Number | Title | Key |
1152 | Reaping the Rye | e minor |
1162 | The Hills of Ireland | e minor |
1164 | Dublin Streets | e minor |
1173 | Johnny O'Shea | e minor |
1174 | A Fig For a Kiss | e minor |
V. Reels | ||
Number | Title | Key |
1217 | The Youngest Daughter | e minor |
1230 | The Templehouse | e minor |
1245 | Peggy on the Settle | e minor |
1264 | The Ships Are Sailing | e minor |
1267 | The Merry Sisters | e minor |
1290 | Cunningham's Fancy | a Dorian |
1296 | Jim Kennedy's Favorite | e minor |
1298 | Lovely Molly | e minor |
1310 | The Fermoy Lasses | e minor / G major |
1316 | The Reel of Mullinavant | e minor |
1324 | Miss Brady | e minor |
1339 | The Merry Harriers (vers. 2) | e minor |
1340 | Pat Tuohy's Reel | e minor |
1345 | The Old Grey Gander | a Dorian |
1349 | The Star of Kilkenny | G major / e minor |
1352 | Tie the Ribbons | e minor |
1360 | The Man With the Money | e minor |
1398 | The Man of the House | e minor |
1399 | The Pretty Blue Seagull | e minor |
1406 | The Pigeon on the Gate | a Dorian |
1414 | O'Reilly's Fancy | e minor |
1423 | Considine's Grove | e minor |
1427 | The Humors of Ballinacarrig | e minor |
1442 | Around the World for Sport | e minor |
1470 | The Humors of Schull | a Dorian |
1504 | The Smoky House | a Dorian |
1505 | The New Potatoes | e minor |
1519 | The Piper's Son | e minor |
1523 | The Field of Oats | e minor |
VI. Hornpipes | ||
Number | Title | Key |
1657 | The Piper's Despair | e minor |
1734 | The Cuckoo's Nest | e minor |
VII. Marches & Miscellany | ||
Number | Title | Key |
1842 | With Biddy By My Side | e minor |