Australian Traditional Dance Tunes Book Volume 2 - 179 tunes
179 set tunes, jigs, reels, polkas, marzurkas, waltzes, varsovianas, schottisches, hornpipes arranged for Australian bush dance music.
Includes instructions for 29 Bush Dances.
The majority of the tunes used are tunes collected from older dance musicians by folklorists since the early 1950s and found as part of a research project for the inauguaral National Library Folk Festival Fellowship by Jane Brownlee and David De Santi.
Originally published in 2006.
162 pages.
CONTENTS
Jigs and 6/8 Set Tunes
Schottisches
2/4 and 4/4 Set Tunes
Polkas
Waltzes
Varsovianas
Mazurkas
Australian Traditional Dance Music - history by Peter Ellis
Traditional Australian Bush Instruments - Bob Bolton
Background Information