Download or read book Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello written by Craig Duncan and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2023-01-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello is a collection of 30 traditional Irish, Scottish, and English melodies that are particularly suited to the cello. Traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O'Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. The arrangements include stylistic phrasing and variations as well as chord changes for accompaniment.