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Old-Time Fiddling Across America

Author : DAVID REINER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 161065465X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Old-Time Fiddling Across America written by DAVID REINER and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique collection of 66 fiddle tunes illustrating the major regional styles found across America and Canada. This book contains rare vintage photographs, player's biographical profiles, historical and performance notes, bowing indications, and information on cross-tunings and the American institution of fiddle contests. the authors have collaborated brilliantly on this labor of love to produce a definitive volume of tunes transcribed from recordings by many of the best fiddlers in North America. Exemplary tunes are included from the Northeast, Southeast and Western regions, plus various widespread ethnic styles including Cajun, Irish, Scandinavian, Klezmer, and Eastern European styles.

Old Time Fiddle Solos

Author : MEL BAY
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609748697
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Old Time Fiddle Solos written by MEL BAY and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intermediate-level solos based on 68 fiddling favorites of reels, jigs, hornpipes and all styles of barn-dance tunes is not only interesting and fascinating, it is also very beneficial for the development of technique. As technique studies, in their respective grades, these barn-dance tunes are in a class by themselves. Excellent repertoire. Guitar chords included.

Mel Bay's old-time fiddling across America

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Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mel Bay's old-time fiddling across America written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anthology of Fiddle Dance Tunes

Author : Bill Guest
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1513459341
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Anthology of Fiddle Dance Tunes written by Bill Guest and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-12-17 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this generous collection, Nova Scotian fiddler Bill Guest presents standard notation of easy to intermediate-level traditional tunes, some of his own more complex original compositions plus works by twenty-one of his Canadian fiddling contemporaries. The collection offers approximately 120 dance tunes including: waltzes, hornpipes, jigs, polkas, two-steps, airs, breakdowns, reels, swing tunes, and a few 4/4 melodies for slow dancers. “The Irish Washerwoman” is presented in 3 versions with different time signatures, and five selections are arranged as duets. The salient feature of this book, however, is the enjoyment and multifaceted musical perspective gained from playing the work of so many fiddlers from across the vast commonwealth of Canada.

Newfoundland Fiddle Music in the 21st Century

Author : Dr. Bridget O’Connell
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 151345966X
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Newfoundland Fiddle Music in the 21st Century written by Dr. Bridget O’Connell and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously researched anthology presents detailed biographies and transcriptions, including bowing, ornamentation, and accentuation of 39 fiddle tunes as played by 25 Newfoundland fiddlers from locations throughout the island. For unparalleled authenticity, the author’s live field recordings of each tune are available online, offering a unique perspective of the various types of tunes and techniques favoured by past and present Newfoundland fiddlers. Newfoundland, a former British colony, possesses a rich and varied cultural heritage due to its history of unique settlement patterns. Beginning in the 16th century, European migrants from Ireland, Scotland, West-Country England, and France settled on the island, bringing with them their various cultural practices, including their fiddles! This collection provides insight to the backgrounds, geographical locations, and musical preferences of the individual players, and how music-making and the role and status of Newfoundland fiddlers have evolved over time. The tunes included here vary from original compositions and revival collectors’ treasures, to reinterpreted versions of timeless Irish, Scottish, and French tunes. Together, they form a part of the modern-day Newfoundland fiddling tradition. This book will delight fiddle players and any musician who wishes to further enhance their repertoire and technique, or simply learn more about the island of Newfoundland and its music. Includes access to online audio.

Appalachian Fiddle Music

Author : Drew Beisswenger
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1513459937
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Fiddle Music written by Drew Beisswenger and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-02-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachian fiddle music, based on the musical traditions of the people who settled in the mountainous regions of the southeastern United States, is widely-known and played throughout North America and parts of Europe because of its complex rhythms, its catchy melodies, and its often-ancient-sounding stylistic qualities. The authors explore the lives and music of 43 of the classic Appalachian fiddlers who were active during the first half of the 20th century. Some of them were recorded commercially in the 1920s, such as Gid Tanner, Fiddlin’ John Carson, and Charlie Bowman. Some were recorded by folklorists from the Library of Congress, such as William Stepp, Emmett Lundy, and Marion Reece. Others were recorded informally by family members and visitors, such as John Salyer, Emma Lee Dickerson, and Manco Sneed. All of them played throughout most of their lives and influenced the growth and stylistic elements of fiddle music in their regions. Each fiddler has been given a chapter with a biography, several tune transcriptions, and tune histories. To show the richness of the music, the authors make a special effort to show the musical elements in detail, but also acknowledge that nothing can take the place of listening. Many of the classic recordings used in this book can be found on the web, allowing you to hear and read the music together.

English Fiddle

Author : CHRIS BARTRAM
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610656865
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book English Fiddle written by CHRIS BARTRAM and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-03-11 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every country in Europe seems to have rediscovered its own vital tradition of fiddle music, except England ... But, English fiddle music forms an important, yet neglected, part of the mosaic of Old and New World fiddle styles.Chris Bartram has played this music for over forty years. He has learned from traditional musicians around his home communities and more widely in other parts of England and in Cornwall. He has studied the majority of the existing field recordings of older generations of players and many of the handwritten manuscripts of nineteenth century fiddlers. 'English Fiddling' contains a wide variety of traditional tunes, an essay about the history of the instrument in England and a number of archive photographs.'English Fiddling' is intended to be a source for people who can already play the fiddle - or violin - at some level. This is not a book for the complete beginner, although a player who can play simple tunes in the first position and who can read music a little will find it helpful and instructive.The companion CD contains a selection of tunes played by Chris and some of his friends.•

100 Tunes from O'Neill's Music of Ireland

Author : Kevin Allison
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619119242
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book 100 Tunes from O'Neill's Music of Ireland written by Kevin Allison and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who is serious about learning Irish traditional music will eventually come across O'Neill's Music of Ireland, a collection of well over 1000 tunes. This book contains a selection of one hundred tunes from this collection, arranged into sets for fiddle which can be used at sessions, and for dancing. The book includes hints, tips and comments for playing the tunes and some of the tunes also have alternative melodies and harmonies for added variety and interest. At the back of the book, there are guitar chords with standard and open D tuning, and a fingering chart for fiddle that you might find useful.

Irish Fiddle Playing - Volume 2

Author : BERTHOUD, PHILIP JOHN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610658043
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Irish Fiddle Playing - Volume 2 written by BERTHOUD, PHILIP JOHN and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a follow-up to "Irish Fiddle Playing: A Guide for the Serious Player" (MB99402BCD). the student will gain a deeper knowledge of fiddle playing and improve their overall playing and musical understanding. Subjects include:•

Famous Fiddlin' Tunes

Author : Craig Duncan
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610659236
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Famous Fiddlin' Tunes written by Craig Duncan and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This affordable 5 1/2 by 8 QWIKGUIDE offers 43 traditional fiddle solos in standard notation with chord symbols. Selections include: Arkansas Traveler; Back Up and Push; the Blarney Pilgrim; Beaumont Rag; Bill Cheatham; Billy in the Lowground; Blackberry Blossom; Bonaparte's Retreat; Cotton-eyed Joe; Cripple Creek; Down Yonder; Dill Pickle Rag; Drowsy Maggie; Durham's Bull; Eighth of January; Fisher's Hornpipe; Fire on the Mountain; Garry Owen; Haste to the Wedding; Jolie Blond; Maidens Prayer; and more. the attached CD contains performances of all the tunes in the book.Also available in Japanese from ATN, Inc.

North American Fiddle Music

Author : Drew Beisswenger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135847231
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book North American Fiddle Music written by Drew Beisswenger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North American Fiddle Music: A Research and Information Guide is€an annotated bibliography and research guide on the fiddle traditions of the United States and Canada.

Fiddler Magazine's Favorites

Author : MULTIPLE AUTHORS
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619116235
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Fiddler Magazine's Favorites written by MULTIPLE AUTHORS and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-06-03 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiddler Magazine in conjunction with Mel Bay Publications, Inc. has compiled a wonderful collection of tunes and interviews with contributions from 36 of the world's greatest fiddlers. The featured artists are Charlie Acuff, Paul Anastasio, Randal Bays, Byron Berline, Kevin Burke, Vassar Clements, Michael Doucet, Jackie Dunn, J.P. Fraley, Johnny Gimble, Bruce Greene, John Hartford, Richard Greene, Ivan Hicks, Jerry Holland, Olav Johansson, James Kelly, Barbara Lamb, Laurie Lewis, Sandy MacIntyre, Natalie MacMaster, Frankie McWhorter, Bruce Molsky, Juan Reynoso, Dale Russ, Oliver Schorer, Pierre Schryer, Bjorn Stabi, Alicia Svigals, Athena Tergis, & Laura Risk, Jay Ungar, Jean-Marie Verret, Claude Williams, George Wilson and Jennifer Wrigley. Includes access to online audio

Ozarks Fiddle Music

Author : DREW BEISSWENGER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 161065319X
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Ozarks Fiddle Music written by DREW BEISSWENGER and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, which includes 308 tune transcriptions, is organized around individual fiddlers who typically combine Appalachian-style fiddling with rags, pop standards, Midwest-style fiddling and sometimes a touch of Western swing to create a style often identifiable as Ozarks. Thirty Ozarks fiddlers and their lives are highlighted with biographical sketches, photographs, and tune histories. Another 50 great Ozarks fiddlers are presented in a similar manner but with less detail. the book and accompanying CD (with 37 tunes, many recorded in the field) emphasize the older fiddling traditions connected to the square dances and community events more than those connected to bluegrass music and modern contest fiddling. Some of the tunes in the collection are old standbys such as Bile Them Cabbage while others such as Finley Creek Blues are unique to the region.The book is the result of years of work by two respected researchers. Gordon McCann won the prestigious Missouri Arts Award in 2002 for his decades of work documenting, studying, and accompanying Ozarks fiddle music. Drew Beisswenger, a music librarian at Missouri State University with a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, has published three other works about fiddle music and is known for his strong transcription and analysis skills.

Encyclopedia of Irish and American Fiddle Tunes

Author : DUCK BAKER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610656849
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Irish and American Fiddle Tunes written by DUCK BAKER and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is intended as a folio of arrangements from the repertoire of a working musician. As such, there is only a minimum of discussion about the technical aspects of playing. Students who have already dealt with the American style called fingerpicking or fingerstyle guitar, which is quite distinct from other kinds of guitar playing, will be at an advantage. the easiest arrangements here are early intermediate level, while the other end of the scale includes pieces that may challenge even a professional. Tunes within each section are presented generally in order of difficulty. the bulk of the tunes presented are fiddle tunes, with a couple of banjo tunes and several songs as well as tunes originally played on other instruments such as harp, pipes, or accordion. There are even a small number composed for the guitar. for the most part, differences in approach among the tunes here are unrelated to the instrumental sources. All the tunes are presented in notation and tablature.

The Bridge: Connecting Violin and Fiddle Worlds

Author : Annemieke Pronker-Coron
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1941892183
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge: Connecting Violin and Fiddle Worlds written by Annemieke Pronker-Coron and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In music-instrument language a bridge usually refers to the part of the violin that supports the strings and transfers its vibrations to the instrument's body. It conducts the sound as well as the music produced by the player. In a wider sense, however, a bridge is a passage that connects two worlds-in this case the world of the violin and the world of the fiddle. [...] This book is for violin educators, violin and fiddle students who would like to teach and perform, and fiddlers who are curious to learn more about the connection of the fiddle heritage with the European baroque and classical world.

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

Author : Howard Wight Marshall
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272932
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Play Me Something Quick and Devilish written by Howard Wight Marshall and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx

Deluxe Anthology of Jazz Violin Styles

Author : Glenn Asch and David Reiner
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619118866
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Deluxe Anthology of Jazz Violin Styles written by Glenn Asch and David Reiner and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, violinists have played jazz, swing, blues and similar improvisational styles. With its rich tone, considerable range, and bowed rhythms and phrasing, the violin offers a unique opportunity for a creative and personal statement as a musician. This book presents a broad sampling of the styles of major jazz violinists, from blues to bebop, from jug band to jazzgrass, from big-band swing to Texas swing. Tunes represent the styles of Stéphane Grappelli, Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, Eddie South, Mark O'Connor, Benny Thomasson, Jean-Luc Ponty, and Darol Anger. Helpful jazz theory sections with exercises alternate with tunes that show how the theory works in practice. This book has two objectives; first, to present a broad, roughly chronological sampling of major jazz violinists and the styles associated with them, and secondly, to introduce the basics of jazz theory as applied to the violin. Whether consciously or intuitively, through critical listening or by practicing jazz patterns and exercises, the more knowledge of jazz you acquire, the better you will be able to think about the content of your playing without being bound by technical and theoretical aspects. This anthology was written to help provide that foundation. Interspersed with pragmatic jazz theory lessons, you’ll find 28 original tunes in the style of various jazz violin luminaries. The book ends with an extensive discography of recommended jazz recordings with a violin focus. Mandolinists as well as other instrumentalists will find a wealth of useful information in this outstanding collection. Delightful broadcast-quality recordings of the repertoire are available online. Includes access to online audio. Wirtten for intermediate to advanced violinists.