School Of Dulcimer Singing Backup With The Mountain Dulcimer

Author : MADELINE MACNEIL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619113015
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School of Dulcimer: Singing & Backup with the Mountain Dulcimer written by MADELINE MACNEIL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2012-06-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new addition to Mel Bay's popular School Of series, MacNeil explains how to sing and accompany on the dulcimer. The book explains different chord types and how to apply them to a variety of songs. Learning backup will also help you hear chord changes and melodic movement, which will help you contribute to the song's narrative. The book includes accompanying audio

Author : Peter B. Irvine
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619117851
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs for Voice and Dulcimer written by Peter B. Irvine and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These compositions are collaborations based on texts and tunes from a variety of sources, including the Bible, the 1940 Episcopal Hymnal, George Herbert, Thomas Tallis and others. Arranged for the mountain dulcimer, these renditions provide traditional repertoire for individuals, house churches and congregations without an organ, as well as a musical change of pace. They can be sung by soloists, choirs and congregations alike. Written in standard notation and tablature in DAD tuning.

Author : Madeline MacNeil
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1513454986
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wedding Music for the Mountain Dulcimer written by Madeline MacNeil and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection for mountain dulcimer players includes two dozen wedding pieces in DAD tuning derived from the folk traditions of the British Isles and America’s Appalachian community. The melodies appear in both dulcimer tablature and music notation with suggested backup chords. Arrangements for a second dulcimer player are also included. An original song entitled Many Butterflies is provided as a wedding gift from author Madeline MacNeil! Haste to the Wedding, and the marrying couple then asks each other to Give Me Your Hand.

Author : Lois Hornbostel
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114127
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Fiddle Tunes for Mountain Dulcimer written by Lois Hornbostel and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 1996-08-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains melodious and energetic music arranged for the novice toexperienced player in traditional keys,with musical notation so the selections can be played with other instruments. Accompaniment chords are included

Author : MADELINE MACNEIL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610653963
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School of Dulcimer written by MADELINE MACNEIL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-10 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dulcimer is a unique instrument in many ways, with the modal layout of the fretboard prime among them. Early in its days in the Appalachian Mountains players would retune a string, bringing the dulcimer from major to minor and other modes. Today's players work in different tunings also, and this book shows why and how all of this happens.Music is a language that comes from the soul rather than solely from the dots and line. However, the dots and lines have their own stories. Learn where the notes fall on the fretboard and how they fit into the modes most dulcimer players know: Ionian/Major, Aeolian/Minor, Mixolydian and Dorian. Scale variations, pentatonic and hexatonic, are also outlined. Fifteen songs and tunes are written in musical notation as well as dulcimer tablature. A CD, with the tunings and count-offs, enable one to play all of the songs in the book along with the recording.Location of musical notes on the dulcimer.Study of modes: Ionian/Major, Aeolian/Minor, Mixolydian and Dorian.Study of scale variations: pentatonic and hexatonicSongs and tunes written in musical notation and tablature.Accompanying CD with which students can play.

Author : Jeffrey A. Lambert
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1411666666
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( 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.

Author : Lois Hornbostel
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114054
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthology for the Fretted Dulcimer written by Lois Hornbostel and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents a colorful array of music for the fretted dulcimer illustrating a wide variety of playing styles and techniques. Mel Bay Publications asked Loisto author this method book/collection because of the adventurous diversity of her playing techniques and musical interests. It is a tour de force of mountain dulcimer playing techniques, ranging from traditional southern Appalachian to Cajun music, cowboy songs, sea chanteys, black spirituals, traditional Irish, Scottish, and English music, camp-meeting songs, and European, Mexican, Israeli, and Oriental folk music. The book also offer basic instruction on reading music and tablature, right- and left-hand techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs, strumming, fingerpicking, flatpicking, various tunings, and accompaniment chords. The pieces themselves are arranged in notation and tablature for the three-string dulcimer in a variety of tunings with lyrics where appropriate

Author : Jean Ritchie
Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783234318
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( 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 150 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.

Author : MADELINE MACNEIL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610657039
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wonderful World of DAA written by MADELINE MACNEIL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, complemented by 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, the richness of the DAA tuning more than compensates for extra finger movement. These arrangements are written in notation and tablature for the three-string dulcimer with chord symbols, with a mix of strumming and fingerpick/flatpick arrangements. Lyrics are included where appropriate. Beginning level of difficulty. the companion play-along CD features all of the tunes in the same order as the book, played by the author. Each tune name is announced, and spoken countoffs and cues for repeats and are also provided. the recording will help make the unique style of the dulcimer clear.

Author : Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810874121
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( 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.