Rochester's
Notated Collections

These linked Google Drive Folders include sheet music used in one or more local session.

• Rick Muir's The Source collections, used for the monthly Learners' Session:
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
• George and Sean Walker collection, courtesy of Rick Muir, with notes by Bob Taylor
• Monday Slow Session Music
  

Tunes by Ear

Rochester Comhaltas hosted regular "tunes-by-ear" workshops aimed at improving players' memory and ear for playing tunes in sessions.

Workshops were regularly held at Pittsford's Spiegel Recreation Center on the second Sunday of each month.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, these workshops moved online via Zoom, but those workshops have been discontinued in mid-2021. They have not restarted as of March 2022.

Email rochestercce@gmail.com to be added to the email list for upcoming workshops.

Recordings of Learners' Session tunes are available in this Youtube Playlist.

Additional Resources

TheSession.org
This "crowdsourced" site is a go-to place for tunes, discussion, and session listings.

IrishTune.info
Track your practice repertoire and compare different versions of tunes.

IMSLP.org
The International Music Score Library Project is the world's largest archive of public domain sheet music. Major Irish collections in it include:

• O'Neill's Dance Music of Ireland (1001 tunes)
• O'Neill's Music of Ireland
  (a little older, 1850 tunes)
• Bunting's Ancient Music of Ireland

Irish Traditional Music Archive
Collections in the ITMA Digital Library's Notated Collections include play-along scores of such manuscripts as:

• Ryan's Mammoth Collection
• Tunes of the Munster Pipers 1 & 2
• Allan's Irish Fiddler
• Francis Roche's vols 1, 2, 3, 4
• Tutor books by Padraig O'Keeffe, James Morrison, and others
  
• Composers' and collectors' manuscripts