Par JANITA BAKER. Une collection de 21 chansons disposées dans un style fingerpicking pour le dulcimer de montagne, ce livre offre une grande variété de genres musicaux et de jouer des niveaux. Partagée également entre les arrangements pour les trois et quatre chaînes équidistantes, les progrès de chansons en difficulté au sein de chaque section de débutant au niveau avancé. Chaque pièce est écrit…

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 book presents fretted Dulcimer arrangements of 58 Stephen Collins Foster classics.Each song is written as a melody line in standard notation with Dulcimer tablature beneath plus complete lyrics historicalnotes and suggested Guitar chords. Cover graphics from the original nineteenth century sheet music publications lend grace and authenticity and songwriters and music historians will find m…

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…

Media Type : Book Level : Beginning-Intermediate Musical Genre : Folk Number of pages : 96 Visit the Greenwich Village folk music scene of the 1960s â?? and bring your dulcimer! Ralph Lee Smith was there and saw it all. He was the only dulcimer player in the Village's old-timey string bands during the Folk Revival's glory days. A fascinating text and rare photographs bring you to Washington Sq…

For Mountain Dulcimer Dad Tuning-The music of Ireland has inspired us for centuries. The DAD tuning is a favorite of mountain dulcimer players and this book with accompanying audio combines beautiful Irish songs and tunes arranged for the dulcimer in DAD.Two melodies by the Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan are included along with well-known songs like 'Down in the Salley Gardens' and more rare tr…

This collection of traditional music for the mountain dulcimer seeks to reunite this beautiful instrument with the people the music and the world from which it came. It tells the story of the Wilderness Road a trail through theAppalachian Mountains from Gate City Virginia to Fort Boonesboro Kentucky blazed by Daniel Boone and links it to the history and heritage of the mountain dulcimer. N…

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 

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.

Spiced with humor Anne Dodson?s Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book 1 is a beautifully structured and organized guide taking the beginning student step-by-step through a well-planned sequence oflessons.Friendly and encouraging Book 1 covers tips on buying and maintaining the instrument left and right hand techniques chords and accompaniment. Exercises lots of fun tunes to play and d…

Learn to play the lap Dulcimer. This instruction book for beginners is unique in two ways. First it instructs the beginning student in the increasingly popular DAD tuning. Secondly the author a classroom music teacher hascarefully 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 e…

Over 500 mountain dulcimer chords for the five widely used modes-- Mixolydian Ionian Lydian Dorian and Aeolian--plus jazz and four-string chromatic tunings. Includes an explanation and history of modes transpositions usinga capo playing dulcimer in jam sessions and more. Special case size.

Anne Dodson?s Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book 2 continues from Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book 1 (MB30608M) introducing two subsequent levels: ?BranchingOut? and ?You Take the Driver?s Seat?. These additional levels will improve your understanding of the fretboard and allow more seasoned players to create their own arrangements. Inside you will findextensive exercises and lo…