Appalachian Dulcimer Music and Song Books
This giant book features over 100 of America's favorite folk songs, expertly arranged for the Appalachaian dulicmer.
What could be more beautiful than mountain dulcimer arrangements of Christmas favorites spanning the centuries? This popular book brings the festive sound of the dulcimer to this joyous season. Creative, beautiful arrangements on 23 Christmas favorites, each with a notated melody line and tablature. Finger positions for each chord are included.
A wonderful collection fo traditional American fiddle tunes arranged for the 12/11 hammered dulcimer. A working knowledge of the instrument is helpful in learning the techniques in this book. Selections include: Home Sweet Home; The Meeting House; Missouri; Soldier's Joy; Ragtime Annie; Blackberry Blossom; and more. Written in standard notation only.
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.
The arrangements in this book are based on the sixteen tunes found on the recording Southern Mountain Classics and are designed to be used with the recording.
This sizeable collection of hammered dulcimer tunes brings together over 225 old-time and Celtic traditional tunes that are commonly heard at gatherings of old-time musicians. This is music that has been passed down vocally, or learned by ear instrumentally, and derived from countries where many of our ancestors originated.
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.
Mark Nelson's knowledge and love of Celtic music is immediately evident through his choice of tunes for this comprehensive book. Harp music, the Piper's repertoire, and Fiddle tunes from Ireland, Scotland and Breton are all well-represented here, and a thorough historical foundation is carefully laid. Mark provides samples of Reels, Jigs, Hornpipes, Strathspeys, Polkas, Mazurkas, Slides, Marches, Piobaireachds, Set Dances, Airs, Plaxties, Country Dances, Morris Dances, as well as music from Breton in north-western France. The audio download available online contains 20 of the 109 songs from the book.
This collection by Janita Baker contains 21 songs arranged in a fingerpicking style for the mountain Dulcimer.
This instruction manual and song collection is a well-crafted collection of basic Dulcimer technique and traditional songs that might have been popular in Cripple Creek, Colorado in the 19th Century-- plus a few modern day tunes by its current inhabitants.
These compositions have been arranged so that each will work both as an air and as a song. All of the selections in the book appear on the companion CD.
This 50-song collection of popular songs, spanning four decades, will add variety to your mountain dulcimer repertoire and will be loads of fun to play! Each well-crafted arrangement is written in standard notation and tab in standard D-A-d tuning and includes lyrics plus chord diagrams for additional accompaniment. Many songs utilize the 1+ and 6+ frets commonly found on mountain dulcimers, which greatly expand song possibilities. Songs include: Ain't No Sunshine · Can't Help Falling in Love · Fields of Gold · Folsom Prison Blues · Free Fallin' · I Heard It Through the Grapevine · I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry · Leaving on a Jet Plane · The Long and Winding Road · Lyin' Eyes · Maggie May · Mr. Tambourine Man · Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) · Puff the Magic Dragon · Red, Red Wine · Runnin' down a Dream · Smoke on the Water · The Sound of Silence · Sweet Caroline · Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) · Under the Boardwalk · Wonderful Tonight · Y.M.C.A. · You've Got to Hide Your Love Away · and more!