A Bard's Book of Pagan Songs: Stories and Music from the Celtic World

by Hugin the Bard

Enchant the ears and imaginations of all who hear you play the 50 original songs in this book. Fifteen songs relate mythic tales from the wondrous world of the Celtic Mabinogion. Take a musical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1567186033
• ISBN13: 9781567186031
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.3" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

LOVED every bit of the book and CD

The book and the CD are both so colorful in word and song that you can't help but enjoy it. I love the stories that come before the written music, I love the written music, and I loved the CD. Believe me, the songs are contagious! I definitely didn't think I would enjoy it this much, but I did.

Too Much Fun!

This music will brighten your day and put a hop in your walk. My family enjoyed both the CD and the written music (for our own live performances). The book has fun stories for storytime too.

Great Book and Wonderful Music

Wow. I really didn't expect to like this nearly as much as I did. The music on the CD is wonderful. Although I can't read or play music, I was able to make up my own tunes for some of the other songs. My family and I are going to enjoy this for a very long time. Thank You Hugin for such a lovely book.

A Celtic Delight !

This book and CD are a sheer delight. Hugin the Bard takes the tales of the Mabinogion and breathes life into them through a mixture of song and story telling that have the ability to transport you back in time to a Wales thousands of years ago. Close your eyes and you can get a feel what it would have been like to sit in the hall of a great king and listen to the stories of heroes and adventures recounted to an enthralled audience by a Bard who was a master of his art. At the end of the CD you are left with a feeling that you just want to play it again and again.

A fusion of styles of music..

Excellent! I love books which depict reasons and the why of music from around the globe but especially the celtic world! These songs, stories and tales are the real ways - so reflective of the times and how they were passed on. The fusion of various musical styles, customs, cultures, paganism of the Irish, the Celtic, Scottish, English, Welsch the ballads, the dance, the songs, were all fused together and was brought here to the new world the - Americas and then melded with the indiginous Spanish Indian of the Americas, and the real traditional music was born. This is the grass roots of our culture. As I listened I heard so many of the call and reply style of the fusion of black slave songs with the traditional music of the celtic people. I loved the tape and the book. It was refreshing and yes, you do want to learn how to dance the jig.