Jazz Viola Wizard Jr. is designed for beginning and intermediate middle and high school violists in the tradition of the parent method Jazz Fiddle Wizard - a breakthrough approach for string playerswho want to learn to improvise within the jazz style. No step is left out in this sequentially arranged introduction to the role of rhythm call and response articulation scales and chord changes in…

To Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar-The ideal chance to become familiar with the stirring and heart-warming world of Celtic music on the fingerstyle Guitar with award-winning performer Pat Kirtley. Kirtley teaches six traditional tunes from Ireland and Scotland inthe DADGAD open tuning. The arrangements are designed for guitarists that already possess a fairly confident playing ability but are looking …

This book is a collection of 40 traditional Irish and Scotiish tunes arranged for fingerstyle guitar; with harmonizing bass lines. These melodies were originally sung or played on fiddle tinwhistle bagpipes or harp. The first section of the book consists of airs laments pipes tunes a waltz and a love song. The remaining three section are dance tunes: reels jigs and hornpipes.

Scottish Melodies For Two Violas contains twenty-four pieces from 18th and 19th century Scotland.Included are airs and dance tunes originally for Voice or Fiddle. These duet arrangements are perfect forstudent and teacher as well as Viola colleagues. The music is presented in sets of two or three tunes ready for performance. The traditional music of Scotland has unique and beautiful qualities and …

Today the cello is usually considered a classical instrument but from the late 17th to early 19th centuries it was used in folk ensembles to provide low driving rhythms for dance tunes and to render haunting Scottish airs.Within the folk music revival of the past forty years there has been a small but dedicated movement to restore the unique richness of the cello to traditional music and Abby N…

Par RIDEOUT BONNIE. Inspired by the Celtic circles of ancient Scotland, Bonnie paints a musical picture through time, joining the heavens and earth to the cycles of everyday life. Performed on Scottish fiddle with gold medal piper Eric Rigler on the Great Highland bagpipe, Scottish smallpipes and uilleann pipes. Also accompanied by guitar, Celtic harp, viola da gamba, hammered dulcimer, bass and b…

While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs stories music and dancingthat is very much alive today. In Scotland there are hundreds of ceilidh bands each of which has their own trademark tune sets making it possible for a man in a kilt to m…

Inspired by the Celtic circles of ancient Scotland Bonnie paints a musical picture through time joining the heavens and earth to the cycles of everyday life. Performed on Scottish fiddle with gold medal piper Eric Rigler on theGreat Highland bagpipe Scottish smallpipes and uilleann pipes. Also accompanied by guitar Celtic harp viola da gamba hammered dulcimer bass and bodhran. Includes N…

Par NORGAARD MARTIN. Jazz Viola Wizard Jr. is designed for beginning and intermediate middle and high school violists in the tradition of the parent method, Jazz Fiddle Wizard - a breakthrough approach for string players who want to learn to improvise within the jazz style. No step is left out in this sequentially arranged introduction to the role of rhythm, call and response, articulation, scales…

Following on from Jessica's hugely successful book Celtic Music for Flute she has produced a Volume 2 which contains 46 pieces ranging from lovely portraits to lively jigs. They come from traditions including Irish Scottish Welsh and Manx and were gathered from various sources: among others manuscripts written for Bagpipe Lute Mandora Fiddle and Voice. The unique personality and sound of…

Par STACY PHILLIPS. Méticuleusement prélevés dans les enregistrements, les danses carrées et contra, concours de violon, jam sessions individuelles violoneux - cet ouvrage est destiné à fournir un aperçu de ce que violoneux américains jouant et ont été écouter dans la dernière partie du XXe siècle. Comme le format d'enregistrement vinyle disparaît du marché, beaucoup de musique de violon enregistr…