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Method for Beginning Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Bing Futch
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781481163194
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Method for Beginning Mountain Dulcimer written by Bing Futch and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bing Futch's "Method For Beginning Mountain Dulcimer" is the most comprehensive how-to-learn-the-dulcimer book available. You'll learn the basics, sure, and start playing songs right away. Even better, though, is the depth of content that Bing provides for you in this one incomparable volume - technique, repertoire, theory, history, and FUN! Once you've worked your way through this book, you'll be a competent dulcimer player that can enjoy playing with any group. You'll have a great time honing your skills with Bing, and you'll end up with a wealth of technical skills, music fundamentals, and dulcimer repertoire!

Dulcimer People

Author : Jean Ritchie
Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783234318
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Dulcimer People written by Jean Ritchie and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dulcimer experiences, news, memories, snapshots, playing styles, tuning and tablature methods, favourite songs, opinions, advice and information on the Appalachian dulcimer.

Method for Chromatic Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Bing Futch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781964725017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Method for Chromatic Mountain Dulcimer written by Bing Futch and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for the Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Neal Hellman
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610657993
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for the Mountain Dulcimer by : Neal Hellman

Download or read book Celtic Songs and Slow Airs for the Mountain Dulcimer written by Neal Hellman and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In folk tradition, stories of love lost, betrayal, jealousy, conflict, emigration, and the supernatural are often immortalized in songs of many traditions, demonstrating that singing has been a universal vehicle for the human condition. the criteria for this wonderful collection of prose and melodies is from Celtic traditions that have been with us for hundreds of years. These compositions have been arranged so that each will work both as an air and as a song. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion CD.

In Search of the Wild Dulcimer

Author : Robert Force
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Wild Dulcimer written by Robert Force and published by Vintage Books USA. This book was released on 1974 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions

Author : Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810841352
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions written by Ralph Lee Smith and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument arrived in the light of the 20th century with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions is a first-hand report to enlarge our knowledge of the dulcimer's history by searching the hills and "hollers" of Appalachia, looking at old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks. After reviewing the instrument's special musical features, the book describes some related instruments, and reveals little-known facts about the dulcimer's origins on the early Appalachian frontier. The book then describes three major design traditions of the dulcimer, each centered in its own geographical area, and focuses on important makers in each of the three traditions--the Melton family of Galax, Virginia, Charles M. Prichard of Huntington, West Virginia, and "Uncle Ed" Thomas of Kentucky. A final chapter describes four Appalachian makers of the folk revival transition, who began making instruments the old-time way and modernized them to meet the needs of Post-World-War-II urban players. The book concludes with listings of dulcimer recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.

Cajun Favorites for Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Lois Hornbostel
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 161065675X
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cajun Favorites for Mountain Dulcimer written by Lois Hornbostel and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2005-06-09 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sweet waltzes and lively two-steps presents an exciting new repertoire for mountain dulcimer players, with playing techniques for authentic style. An audio download online is availableof all the music is included, and the notation and chords in standard keys can also be used for other instruments. This music suits the mountain dulcimer well because it comes from the Cajun accordion, which has the same simple diatonic scale. The easy melodies and chord progressions in this repertoire can be played by less experienced dulcimer players, while the tips on improvisation and embellished versions offer creativity for more experienced players.Music includes Jolie Blon, Mardi Gras Dance, J'ai Pass, Devant ta Porte, Allons a Lafayette, MadameSosthne, The Back Door

Dirt Simple Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Madeline MacNeil
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114070
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Dirt Simple Mountain Dulcimer written by Madeline MacNeil and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain dulcimer has a long and interesting history in the southern Appalachian mountains, and it's an instrument that so many of us enjoy playing. The book begins with the basics of tuning, strumming and finding notes on the dulcimer. The songs and tunes include favorites of dulcimer players, such as Boil That Cabbage Down, Old Joe Clark, Waterbound, Amazing Grace, Aura Lee and Are You Sleeping. The tracks in the accompanying online audio include count-ins and are played at easy-to-follow moderate tempos. Includes access to online audio.

First Lessons Dulcimer

Author : Joyce Ochs
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610656733
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book First Lessons Dulcimer written by Joyce Ochs and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instruction book for beginning lap dulcimer in DAD tuning is unique in two ways. First, it instructs the beginning student in the increasingly popular DAD tuning. Secondly, the author, a classroom music teacher, has carefully and systematically layered the lessons to guide the student through familiar songs while teaching skills and musical concepts. This not only enables the student to enjoy the lap dulcimer but also enhances total music understanding and participation. the accompanying CD provides instructional dialogue and demonstrations of the techniques and songs included in the book. Additional hints and exercises are presented in an inviting and encouraging conversational text.

The Story of the Dulcimer

Author : Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher : Charles K. Wolfe Music
ISBN 13 : 9781621902386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Dulcimer written by Ralph Lee Smith and published by Charles K. Wolfe Music. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no instrument better represents the music of Appalachia than the fretted dulcimer. The instrument was no longer confined to back porches and local music halls when Jean Ritchie so melodically thrust herself and her dulcimer into the national limelight during the folk revival of the 1950s. But where did the dulcimer, known to exist in no other folk culture in the world, come from? In The Story of the Dulcimer, Ralph Lee Smith traces the dulcimer's beginnings back to European immigration to America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As German immigrants settled in Pennsylvania and Appalachia, they brought with them scheitholts, a type of northern European fretted zither. As German immigrants intermingled with English and Scotch-Irish immigrants, the scheitholt, which was customarily played to a slower tempo in German cultural music, began to be musically integrated into the faster tempos of English and Scotch-Irish ballads and folk songs. As Appalachia absorbed an increasing flow of English and Scotch-Irish immigrants and the musical traditions they brought with them, the scheitholt steadily evolved into an instrument that reflected this folk music amalgamation, and the modern dulcimer was born. In this second edition, Smith brings the dulcimer's history into the twenty-first century with a new preface and updates to the original edition. Copiously illustrated with images of both antique scheitholts and contemporary dulcimers, The Story of the Dulcimer is a testament to the enduring musical heritage of Appalachia and solves one of the region's musical mysteries.

You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer

Author : Madeline MacNeil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786693306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer written by Madeline MacNeil and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madeline MacNeil's performances are characterized by her effortless vocals and impeccable mountain and hammered dulcimer playing. In this book she reveals some of the secrets of her success with the mountain dulcimer. Early on, she reminds the reader that the dulcimer is not a toy or a stringed kazoo but a serious, expressive musical instrument capable of stretching as far as the imagination. She endorses both playing by ear and learning to read standard notation. In easily-understood language she manages to explore some very complex, even esoteric concepts, making this a particularly valuable book for the beginning instrumentalists. You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer is simply a great fundamental book. Twelve intensive lessons in 95 pages with arrangements in both DAA and DAD tuning. Standard notation and tablature. Illustrated with photographs and drawings. Includes access to online audio and video.

Constructing the Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Dean Kimball
Publisher : New York : McKay
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Constructing the Mountain Dulcimer written by Dean Kimball and published by New York : McKay. This book was released on 1975 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive handbook for building the dulcimer.

Music Theory and Chord Reference for the Mountain Dulcimer

Author : Jerry Rockwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964722217
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (222 download)

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Download or read book Music Theory and Chord Reference for the Mountain Dulcimer written by Jerry Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 1995-07-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication explains the basic concepts of music theory, & how they relate to the mountain (Appalachian) dulcimer. Rockwell, who has spent some 20 years as a folk musician & mountain dulcimer teacher/player/builder, has distilled his own formal theory training in this book. Section 1, Music Theory, surveys the musical rudiments of all musicians' basic training. Rhythm notation, notes, meter, accidentals, scales, scale-building, key signatures, circle of Fifths, chords, etc., are covered & an explanation of whole & half-steps on the dulcimer fretboard is included. Section 2, Chord Reference, takes the reader/player through an orderly, rational evaluation of a dulcimer fretboard tuned D-A-D. Using graphic "pitch/interval surveys," "constellations," & "chord tablature," Rockwell explains the fretboard patterns of various triads. Chord progressions for 8 familiar tunes are provided: Bile Them Cabbage Down, Stretched Cabbage, Soldier's Joy, Fisher's Hornpipe, Liberty, Rickett's Hornpipe, 12-bar Blues in D & A. An appendix, Understanding the Modes, surveys the antique modes associated with this instrument. Exercises, diagrams & illustrations amplify this tightly packed reference, which will benefit dulcimer players at all levels, arrangers, & primary & secondary music educators. Includes publisher's CIP. To order: J.C. Rockwell Music, 6368-B Ambleside Dr., Columbus, OH 43229. 614-846-1096. E-MAIL: [email protected].

Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions

Author : Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810874121
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions written by Ralph Lee Smith and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument entered the post-World-War-II Folk Revival with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions tells the fascinating story of the effort to recover the instrument's lost history through fieldwork in the Southern mountains, finding of old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks. After reviewing the instrument's distinctive musical features, Ralph Lee Smith presents the dulcimer's story chronologically, tracing its roots in a Renaissance German instrument, the scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in America; and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The story continues into the 20th Century, through the final group of tradition-based Appalachian makers whose work flowed into the national scene of the Folk Revival. This fully revised edition provides expanded information about the history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer before the Civil War and discusses traditions and types that are still being discovered and documented. Smith also adds his personal adventures in searching for the dulcimer's history. A new final chapter describes types and styles that do not fit conveniently into the mainstream development of the instrument. The book concludes with several appendixes, including measurements of representative dulcimers and listings of dulcimer recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.

Playing the Mountain Dulcimer Made Easy

Author : Jeffrey A. Lambert
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411666666
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Playing the Mountain Dulcimer Made Easy written by Jeffrey A. Lambert and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You CAN play the mountain or lap dulcimer. This book makes it easy The mountain dulcimer is in the midst of a great revival It has found renewed popularity throughout the world. Persons of all nationalities are discovering the sweet music of this grand old instrument.

The Appalachian Dulcimer Book

Author : Michael Murphy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Appalachian Dulcimer Book written by Michael Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complete Book of Celtic Music for Appalachian Dulcimer

Author : Mark "Kailana" Nelson
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610655362
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Complete Book of Celtic Music for Appalachian Dulcimer written by Mark "Kailana" Nelson and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Nelson's knowledge and love of Celtic music is immediately evident through his choice of tunes for this comprehensive book. Harp music, the piper's repertoire, and fiddle tunes from Ireland, Scotland and Breton are all well-represented here, and a thorough historical foundation is carefully laid. Mark provides samples of Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, Strathspeys, Polkas, Mazurkas, Slides, Marches, Piobaireachds, Set Dances, Airs, Plaxties, Country Dances, Morris Dances, as well as music from Breton in northwestern France. the CD contains 20 of the 109 songs from the book.