Hi Julie, Great site, lots of lovely tunes. Thanks for making them available, especially for viola, which is so often overlooked. FYI, "De Bharr an gCnoc" is Irish for "At the Top of the Hill". Have to try and play it now to see is it a hilly tune! Eithne

Nice site. Keep it up!

Interesting information, but I must point out that Arthur Wood was not from "Borsetshire". He was a Yorkshireman. Borsetshire is the county in which "The Archers" is set. It is a fictitious place.

Well done, I found this with a search. The only thing is that "Barwick Green" is not traditional, it is by Arthur Wood, the well-known Borsetshire composer. It is one of the movements from his suite "My Native Heath". Barwick is a village in Wood´s native Yorkshire. But please do not take it off the site for this reason! I have just completed (probably) the only Barwick Green ringtone in Mexico.

Thanks so very much for sharing the wonderful work you have done on this site. Your arrangements are very enjoyable. I am always looking for twin fiddle tunes and your duos fill the bill. The only thing that would be better is having midis or MP3s too. Will look forward to more tunes. Thanks again! Judy

Julie, this is great work. Thank you. Just discovered the site, and will have lots of exploring and learning to do. I play ukulele, but your arrangements suit the couple of pieces I've tried so far (Mari's Wedding, Star of the County Down). Texas Swing, since no-one else seems to have answered, is kind of country music with a swing/jazz/blues feel, usually fiddle led, developed in the '30s. Main exponent was Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Also Ernest Tubb as a singer, and more currently, Asleep At The Wheel. Examples that come to mind are Walkin' the Floor Over You and Tennessee Moon.

Hey all-- I've just added a guestbook for the folk archive so people can let me know what they do and do not like about it. Feel free to make suggestions, corrections, etc, especially as I'm sketchy on the origins of some of the songs listed. Thanks! --julie

Hi Bob-- thanks for the suggestion. I'm familiar with bluegrass and can definitely add some arrangements along those lines, but I'm not familiar with what you mean by "western swing" or "texas-style." Also, are there any particular instruments you'd like to see arrangments for? I've set up most of my arrangements to suit the violin range, but for bluegrass I could add a banjo part as well.

Congrats and thanks for leading this project. You appear to have a solid knowledge of music and your arrangements look great. Adding some bluegrass, texas-style and western swing tunes would be appreciated. Thanks, Bob

Congratulations!! What a great project.Perhaps adding some more Canadian style such as Ottawa Valley type tunes comes to mind,,,but other than that.absolutely super job!!!!!

Thanks for the transcriotions for viola- I have done several by hand and it is rather time consuming. Really enjoy Irish traditional. Like fiddle, but some of the tunes ( usually the slower ones ) sound better to me on viola. May God Bless.

Hi Julie Waters, What a great piece of work! I printed lots of tunes for myself and my friends. a suggestion -- could you put country-of-origin on the printable versions? It's the print versions that we use, and it is hard to keep them all straight without a prompt. Do you know what the words are to Karapyet? (I just looked them up) www.barynya.com) 'Hey girl Nadya What do you want? ... I want only Chocolate!' Thanks again Christopher Guida

I found your page because I was searching for info about the song "The Ash Grove" because my web page is dedicated to it. I hope you don't mind if I include a link to your page about it, but I wanted to correct something. Your page says it is Irish, but it is most definitely Welsh. Thanks!

that was top that music it made me think about everything