Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
The Appalachian Dulcimer Book
Download The Appalachian Dulcimer Book full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Appalachian Dulcimer Book ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Method for Beginning Mountain Dulcimer by : Bing Futch
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!
Book Synopsis Method for Chromatic Mountain Dulcimer by : Bing Futch
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:
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.
Book Synopsis In Search of the Wild Dulcimer by : Robert Force
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:
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.
Book Synopsis The Dulcimer Hymn Book by : Bud Ford
Download or read book The Dulcimer Hymn Book written by Bud Ford and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular text blends the haunting, sweet voice of the mountain dulcimer with treasured gospel and sacred melodies. Contains 37 outstanding arrangements in standard notation and tab with lyrics and suggested guitar chords. Dulcimer chord diagrams are also shown.
Book Synopsis Dirt Simple Mountain Dulcimer by : Madeline MacNeil
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.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Dulcimer by : Ralph Lee Smith
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.
Book Synopsis Cajun Favorites for Mountain Dulcimer by : Lois Hornbostel
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
Book Synopsis You Can Teach Yourself Dulcimer by : Madeline MacNeil
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.
Book Synopsis Join the Jam, Ukulele Edition by : Stephen Seifert
Download or read book Join the Jam, Ukulele Edition written by Stephen Seifert and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Constructing the Mountain Dulcimer by : Dean Kimball
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.
Book Synopsis Mel Bay's Complete Dulcimer Handbook by : Mark Biggs
Download or read book Mel Bay's Complete Dulcimer Handbook written by Mark Biggs and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written as a basic guide and source book for all dulcimer players, from the absolute novice to the most advanced picker. With its 53 songs in various modes and tunings, The Complete Dulcimer Handbook is meant to be used as a songbook, a lesson plan book, and a step-by-step guide from beginner to intermediate or advanced level. The author's basic premise is that, given this instrument's relatively brief pedagogical history, There are no right or wrong ways to play the mountain dulcimer, only harder or easier means of reaching the same ends. The stereo CD features the authors outstanding performance of 17 tunes from the book.
Book Synopsis Complete Book of Celtic Music for Appalachian Dulcimer by : Mark "Kailana" Nelson
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.
Book Synopsis Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions by : Ralph Lee Smith
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.
Download or read book The Dulcimer Book written by Jean Ritchie and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1974-06-01 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words and music for 16 songs from The Ritchie Family of Kentucky. How to tune and play and recollections of the dulcimer's local history. Illustrations and drawings.
Book Synopsis The Complete Book of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes for Appalachian Dulcimer by : Mark Nelson
Download or read book The Complete Book of Old-Time Fiddle Tunes for Appalachian Dulcimer written by Mark Nelson and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-03-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 70 fiddle tunes arranged for Appalachian dulcimer, this book includes both common session tunes that everyone should know and a handful of obscure gems. The tunes include a representative collection of what people are playing in the current old-time music scene. The author has indicated the source of the tune when known, plus notes on achieving the proper feel and playing style. Although a few of the arrangements are real finger-twisters, most are well within the reach of the intermediate dulcimer player. Some tunes are written for old-time “noter” style playing, some are best fretted with your fingers. All of the arrangements include suggested chords for guitar or other instruments. One or two include lyrics; most do not. Old-time tunes tend to be played in fiddle-friendly keys like D, G, A (major and minor), and C. Although you can play in most of those keys out of DAD tuning, the music really comes alive when you re-tune and let those drones ring. Tunings include DAA, DAD, DGD, AAA and more. The author includes notes on how to re-tune your dulcimer, as well as alternative tunings for some of the tunes. The author says, “This book represents the fruits of over fifty years spent chasing down a good tune.” Includes access to online audio of all of the tunes played on solo dulcimer.
