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This book is a little like Ireland itself: A lot of potentially interesting stuff has been suppressed.

As a source of Irish songs, it is incredibly useful. Dozens of songs, mostly Irish although there are a few ringers, with melodies and chords and lyrics. All in a thin, highly portable package. I truly know no better book of Irish songs.

The only complaint I have is the lack of information about the songs. There are occasional comments about the background, but many songs have no notes at all. And there is no source information. So you don't know how old the song is, whose version it is, what part of Ireland it comes from. It makes it tough if someone asks you about the song.

It's a minor defect in a popular songbook. And it may have let them keep the price down a little, since they can perhaps treat a few copyrighted items as traditional. I wish the information were there. I'm glad to have the book even without it.… (mere)

Contains original works and arrangements of many piano classics - dance forms; preludes; fugues; minuets; sonatas; rondos; variations; waltzes; fantasias; nocturnes; mazurkas; marches. Conveniently spiral bound.

Table of contents: Tango / Albéniz - Malagueña / Albéniz - Four pieces from The little notebook / Bach - Prelude no. 1 / Bach - Prelude and fugue, book 2, no. 12 / Bach - Prelude and fugue, book 1, no. 2 / Bach - Air / Bach - Bagatelle / Beethoven - Ecossaises / Beethoven - Für Elise / Beethoven - Minuet in G / Beethoven - Moonlight sonata / Beethoven - Rondo à cappriccio [i.e. capriccio] / Beethoven - Six variations / Beethoven - Minuet / Boccherini - Waltz in A flat / Brahms - Hungarian dance / Brahms - Fantasie-impromptu / Chopin - Valse op. 64, no. 2 / Chopin - Nocturne op. 72, no. 1 / Chopin - Nocturne op. 55, no. 1 / Chopin - Nocturne in E flat / Chopin - Prelude op. 28, no. 6 / Chopin - Prelude op. 28, no. 7 / Chopin - Mazurka in A minor / Chopin - Valse op. 69, no. 2 / Chopin - Mazurka in B flat / Chopin - Nocturne (posthumous) / Chopin - Valse op. 64, no. 1 / Chopin - (cont.): Le coucou / Daquin - The little Negro / Debussy - Clair de lune / Debussy - Minstrels / Debussy - La fille aux cheveux de lin / Debussy - Golliwog's cake-walk / Debussy - Deux arabesques / Debussy - Humoresque / Dvořák - Humoresque (four-hands) / Dvořák - Romance sans paroles / Fauré - Nocturne / Field - Rondino / Diabelli - Poem / Fibich - Anitra's dance / Grieg - Anitra's dance (four-hands) / Grieg - Papillon / Grieg - The doll's complaint / Franck - Humoresque / Grieg - Gavotte in D / Gossec - à Alfredo G. Faira Playera / Granados - Air and variations / Handel - Largo / Handel - Gypsy rondo / Haydn - Rondo / Hummel - Sonata in D Major / Haydn - The cascades / Joplin - Having fun / Kabalevsky - Saber dance / Khachaturian - The music box / Liadov - Hungarian rhapsody / Liszt - Liebestraum / Liszt - To a wild rose / MacDowell - Elégie / Massenet - (cont.): Venetian boat song / Mendelssohn - Alla turca / Mozart - Sonata K 545 / Mozart - Fantasy in D minor / Mozart - Rondo in D / Mozart - Barcarolle / Offenbach - Barcarolle (four-hands) / Offenbach - Peter and the wolf / Prokofieff - Prelude / Rachmaninoff - La tambourin / Rameau - Song of India / Rimsky-Korsakov - Song of India (four-hands) / Rimsky-Korsakov - Trois gnossiennes / Satie - Sonata L 375 / Scarlatti - Italian song / Tchaikovsky - Album leaf / Scriabin - Polka / Shostakovitch - Serenade / Schubert - Serenade (four-hands) / Schubert - Moment musical / Schubert - Soldiers' march / Schumann - Marche militaire / Schubert - Marche militaire (four-hands) / Schubert - The happy farmer / Schumann - Träumerei / Schumann - Träumerei (four-hands) / Schumann - The beautiful blue Danube / Strauss - Waltz / Weber.… (mere)