The Irish Dulcimer

Author : LOIS HORNBOSTEL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114100
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish Dulcimer written by LOIS HORNBOSTEL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 1979-12-28 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic collection provides fretted dulcimer players with an authentic Irish repertoire. The 31 selections include jigs, slides, hornpipes, polkas, reels, slow airs, harp tunes, and songs. Accompaniment chords and musical notation are provided for other instruments. The modal music of Ireland fits well to the modal techniques and nuances of the dulcimer. It can drone like the uillean pipes, be rhythmic as a bodhran, and melodic like a fiddle. Lois gives the dulcimer player an important introduction to the techniques of applying Irish music to the dulcimer. Consider this the beginning of a new approach to an old music, and a point of departure for your own interpretations of tunes you love

Author : Karen Ashbrook
Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 1783234237
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing The Hammered Dulcimer In The Irish Tradition written by Karen Ashbrook and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1987-06-01 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is to encourage dulcimer players at the intermediate-to-advanced level to play the “right” way. If you’re going to play a few Irish tunes, why not play them the way they were intended to be played? Then you can enjoy what other Irish musicians have enjoyed for hundreds of years. This book can teach you several basic, simple techniques that create the feel of traditional Irish music.

Author : MADELINE MACNEIL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114895
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 20 Irish Tunes and Songs for Mountain Dulcimer DAD Tuning written by MADELINE MACNEIL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 treasures like The Lark in the ClearAir. Standard notation and backup chords are included with the tablature. The accompanying audio helps you play through each tune at a moderate tempo

Author : LORINDA JONES
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610651200
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Celtic Collection: Mountain Dulcimer written by LORINDA JONES and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of songs, jigs, hornpipes, airs, polkas, and marches 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 few tunes 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 book is accompanied by a CD recording of each tune. Song titles include: George Brabazon, Off She Goes, Irish Lamentation, Keel Row, Water Is Wide, Loch Lomond, Foggy Dew, and many more. Intermediate playing level suggested.

Author : LOIS HORNBOSTEL
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619114119
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dulcimer Fiddle Tunes written by LOIS HORNBOSTEL and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the mountain dulcimer books published over the past 20 years, this book is the jam-session standard. Contains 40 favorite fiddle tunesthat can easily be played in the regular keys and upto speed. In notation and tablature. Level of difficulty - intermediate. (Arranged for the beginner to advanced player intraditional keys fo they can be played with other instruments. Accompaniment chords included.)**Note - only 25 songs of the 40 total from the book are on online audio

Author : MARTHA EINAN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1619116669
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melodies and More for Mountain Dulcimer written by MARTHA EINAN and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melodies and More contains 30 beautiful arrangements for mountain dulcimer,including 25 traditional tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and five original tunes by Martha Einan. Most of the arrangements include multiple parts for melody, simple melody, harmony, bass and/or fingerpicking. All of the melody parts are also suitable for solo dulcimer. Twenty-eight arrangements are for three- string dulcimer in DAD tuning and two arrangements are for four-equidistant- string dulcimer in DADD tuning. The tunes are written in standard notation and tablature for intermediate to advanced players

Author : Shelley Stevens
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610650263
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book O'Carolan Harp Tunes for Mountain Dulcimer written by Shelley Stevens and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turlough O'Carolan is the most revered of all Irish harpers and composers. This collection, epertly transcribed in notation and tablature, presents 30 beloved O'Carolan medoldies featuring a uniquely Irish collection of moods and meditations. the arrangements are designed for the intermediate to advanced player, performing on a dulcimer with a 6 and 1/2 fret. the book also includes playing tips and a biographical sketch of Turlough O'Carolan.

Author : MAGGIE SANSONE
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1610653912
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celtic Fair (for hammered dulcimer) written by MAGGIE SANSONE and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting collection of music for the hammered dulcimer as heard on Maggie Sansone's acclaimed recording A Celtic Fair. America's premier hammered dulcimer recording artist and player, Maggie has created a perfect collection for all levels of playing, including both a beginning melody-only version and challenging intermediate versions with variations, ornaments, flams and bass runs. Two early music pieces included present the melody and a version for duet and quartet with bass line. the music is drawn from jigs, reels and airs from Ireland, Scotland and Brittany, France and Renaissance dance manuscripts. the sheet music is presented as the basic melody with chords and many of the tunes include a variety of advanced techniques (ornamentation, flams, rolls, use of bass lines, use of unusual modes and scales and interesting chord substitution) to add spice to the arrangements and challenge the player to reach towards the next level of advanced performance. Audio CD included.

Author : Bonnie Carol
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
ISBN 13 : 1609744993
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dulcimer Jam written by Bonnie Carol and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dulcimer Jam takes common and obscure tunes heard in jam sessions and arranges them for hammered dulcimer, fretted dulcimers (with tablature), and other instruments to play in a jam session setting.

Author : Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher : Charles K. Wolfe Music
ISBN 13 : 9781621902386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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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.