Jean Ritchie. 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.
Visually attractive this user-friendly chart provides mountain dulcimer students and teachers with an overview of the instrument. Included are a chart of note locations on the fretboard for both DAA and DAD tunings a comparisonof DAA and DAD diagrams of typical dulcimer stringing and explanations of playing tools such as noters and picks. 24' x 35' durable coated paper.
This outstanding children's method for mountain Dulcimer is the result of the author's many years of sharing the Dulcimer with children and has been successful with children as young as 5 years old. In it you will find manytraditional songs and folk tunes arranged for the mountain Dulcimer.Each song has a simple strum pattern indicated above it with fret numbers for the melody notes and lyrics inc…
This beginner's method presents clear concise instruction for learning to play the traditional three-stringed mountain dulcimer. Thirty-eight songs are taught with notation and fret numbers for each note. Chord symbols are alsoincluded for playing with guitar banjo or another chording instrument. Melody playing with drones and basic chord playing are both taught. Lyrics are included with the so…
This book was written to aid the dulcimer player in playing as a backup musician. It provides the tools necessary for musicians who are seeking to go beyond simple melody lines. The majority of chords diagrammed are those mostcommonly used and those whose notes are clustered on the instrument in six repeated shapes. Diagrams are shown for the 15/14 dulcimer.
Killer Technique: Hammered Dulcimer focuses on dulcimer-specific skills and drills them in using effective and engaging new ways. Targeted areas include dexterity aim flow commonly used percussion rudiments chords arpeggios and chord suffixes. Killer Technique: Hammered Dulcimer is perfect for Dulcimer players of all skill levels.
Author Bonnie Carol learned first hand about soulful Latin American music as she grew up along the Texas-Mexico border.In this book she takes familiar and obscure Latin American tunes and piecesinfluenced by Latin music and arranges them for Hammered Dulcimer and in some cases Fretted Dulcimer (with tablature) as well. She draws from a repertoire including Argentinean tangos Andean panpipe musi…
Arranged For The Hammered Dulcimer-The Sandbridge Dance Tune Collection is a collection drawn from Ken Kolodner's extensive library of arrangements for the Hammered Dulcimer developed from over 30 years of teaching thousands ofworkshops.The Sandbridge Dance Tune Collection includes traditional and original dance tunes reels jigs hornpipes and polkas. The repertoire draws primarily from traditi…
This collection by Janita Baker contains 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain Dulcimer. Fingerpicking Dulcimer offers a wide variety of musical genres and playing levels.Divided equally between arrangements for three and four equidistant strings the songs progress in difficulty within each section from beginner to advanced level. Each piece is written in both standard music…
With This Ring is a hammered dulcimer collection of tunes for weddings and special occasions. Common wedding processionals such as ?Pachelbel?s Canon? and Wagner?s ?Bridal March? are included as well as common recessionals such asClarke?s ?Trumpet Voluntary? and Mendelsson?s ?Wedding March.? Other favorite melodies such as Vivaldi?s ?Spring? from the Four Seasons and Beethoven?s ?Fur Elise? are i…
This text by one of America's finest Hammered Dulcimer players contains the pieces played on Maggie's music recording A Scottish Christmas which features Scottish carols wassail tunes strathspeys and reels for thecelebration of Christmas Hogmanay and the New Year. Arranged for the standard 12/11 Hammered Dulcimer. The recording was acclaimed by CBS Sunday Morning as ‘Ancient and infectious 
Bluegrass on Hammered Dulcimer is a collection of tunes commonly found in the standard bluegrass repertoire. Favorite vocal pieces such as 'A Man of Constant Sorrow ' 'Angel Band ' 'Keep on the Sunny Side ' and 'Will the Circlebe Unbroken ' are included along side hot instrumentals such as 'Jerusalem Ridge ' 'Rawhide ' 'Big Mon ' and 'Blue Grass Stomp.' Even traditional tunes that you think you k…
A collection of songs jigs hornpipes airs polkas and arches from the Celtic lands of Scotland Ireland and England. The songs are arranged for mountain Dulcimer primarily in 1-5-8 (Mixolydian) tuning along with a fewtunes in 1-5-5 (Ionian) tuning. The arrangements make use of the capo as well as playing tunes in Em and Bm and include a Part II for a suggested harmony on selected songs.The …
Music of the World for Mountain Dulcimer contains 38 beautiful songs from around the globe all specially arranged for mountain dulcimer. This unique songbook features standard notation and tablature song notes a variety of tunings and styles plus an audio CD with demonstrations of all the songs in the book.
Hammer Dulcimer Arrangements For Special Occasions - 67 tunes arranged for novice to advanced players for use at a variety of special events. Most arrangements offer an uncomplicated version for less experienced players and anembellished version for more advanced players. Includes Medieval Renaissance Old Time and Celtic music and some rarely-heard tunes as well as several Dulcimer Duo arr…
A comprehensive chord encyclopedia for the mountain dulcimer in the common Mixolydian Ionian Dorian Lydian and Phrygian modal tunings. Three different tunings are presented for each mode!
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.
Simple and unpretentious the diatonic musice of the Shakers lies well on the moutain dulcimer. The lyrics to these songs offer a universal message of love and understanding often with a joyous sense of humor. The author provideshistorical insights and program notes for the 30 tunes included here. This delightful informative book is illustrated with photos of craft work and period print reproduc…
This book is designed to help fretted Dulcimer players at all levels grow in their technical abilities by developing strength precision control and flexibility in both the right and left hands. Acquiring a solid technicalfoundation provides a base upon which to build strong musicianship enabling one to play more satisfying music regardless of style. Explore flatpicking fingerpicking slurs ch…
This book provides 20 beautiful Anglo-American folk songs field-collected by two remarkable real-life 'song catchers ' Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine andLoraine the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway a composer and arranger were among the first persons to search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians. The musical…
‘Tis the Season is a hammered dulcimer collection of tunes for holidays and other celebrations throughout the year. You may celebrate the New Year with “Auld Lang Syne ” and Valentine’s Day with“My Love is Like a Red Red Rose.” Play “St. Patrick’s Day” in March and for Easter you might choose the hymn “Christ the Lord is Risen Today.&rd…
DAA is a beautiful tuning for the Mountain Dulcimer. This book contains 19 arrangements of traditional Irish Welsh French Canadian Scottish and American folk tunes and songs that are rich within their melodies complementedby the DAA tuning. Although the DAA tuning results in predominantly linear movement of the fingers along the frets with jumps and runs along the melody or middle string th…
Finally! A chord book written for the young beginner (or even beginners of any age) showing a creative and simple way to learn and play dulcimer chords in DAD tuning. Chords are taught beginning with the most essential to moreadvanced. Chords are presented with exercises that build upon each other and eventually lead the student to playing logical and common chord progressions. Chords are shown in…
Standard notation and a simple alpha-numerical tablature system are used to present this unusual collection of pre-18th Century tunes for the standard 12/11-course hammered dulcimer. Creating a hybridof folk and classical elements Carole Koenig has expanded the repertoire of the hammered dulcimer with melodies from France Spain England and Scotland. The tunes are first presented in a simplemel…
This collection contains 25 beautiful traditional tunes from England Ireland Scotland and Wales as well as five original compositions by Martha Einan. Most of the arrangements include multiple parts formelody simple melody harmony bass and/or fingerpicking. All of the melody parts are also suitable for solo Dulcimer. Twenty-eight of the arrangements are for three-string Dulcimer in DAD tunin…
This collection by Janita Baker contains 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain Dulcimer. Fingerpicking Dulcimer offers a wide variety of musical genres and playing levels.Divided equally between arrangements for three and four equidistant strings the songs progress in difficulty within each section from beginner to advanced level. Each piece is written in both standard music…
