This is the 8th volume of an extensive collection of folk songs arranged for the classical guitar mostly in two-part counterpoint. The arrangements are of moderate difficulty and the aims of this publication are to familiarise, entertain and educate guitarists (and other musicians) with a melodic repertoire of lasting aesthetic value, under the light of contrapuntal treatment. The thirty five volumes of this collection can certainly be printed on paper if so desired and there are a few pages in each volume, either blank or with photographs of various musicians, which can be inserted at will in any place for the correct ordering of left and right hand pages so that page turns can be avoided. The principle of avoiding page turns has been maintained in all volumes, but this edition is also designed with mobile electronic devices in mind such as tablets etc, using the environment and facilities of a score reading application, towards a paperless world, at least in music. Therefore the size of the staves is bigger than usual for ease of reading on a small screen but not big enough to exceed the limit of a two-page view. Active internal links for navigating from thematic indexes to particular songs and back to indexes have been added, and also external internet links to sites that give further information for the 945 songs of this first collection for classical guitar.

Volume 8 (Songs 190-216)

Coconut Tree- Codfish Shanty (The)- Cold Blows the Wind 1 (Shropshire)- Cold Blows the Wind 2 (The Unquiet Grave)- Cold, Haily, Windy Night- Collier’s Rant (The)- Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies- Come all you True Good Christians- Come All You Worthy Christian Men- Come all you worthy Gentlemen- Come Away to the Skies- Come buy my fine herrings- Come O’er the Stream Charlie- Come Write me Down- Come, Tune Your Cheerful Voice- Constant Farmer’s Son (The )- Constant Johnny- Cooper Of Fife (The)- Cosher Bailey- Cottage thatched with straw (The)- Coulter’s Candy- Coventry Carol 1- Coventry Carol 2 (Lulle Lullay)- Crocodile (The)- Cropper’s Song (The)- Cruel Mother (The)- Cruel Ship’s Carpenter (The)