Catalog
Folk Harp Tutor
Music and playing guidelines
- Companion CD
- Songs in keys of C, Am, and G
- Playing tips and warm-up techniques
- Arrangements for small and large harps
- Beginning to intermediate playing levels
- Solo, 2, 3, and 4 part arrangements for ensemble
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| Down In The Valley Long, Long Ago McFarlane's Lament Ar Serjant-Major Chimes of London Katie Bairdie Hewlett The Dark Isle Come Thou Font of Ev'ry Blessing Scarborough Fair Mairis Wedding Annie Laurie |
Abide With Me Star of the County Down Barbara Ellen My Deaer Irish Boy Rakes of Mallow Skye Boat Song The Water Is Wide Minuet in G Amazing Grace Christ Child Lullaby Morning Has Broken Down By the Sally Garden |
Sacred Music Collection
Hymns, spirituals, and gospels arranged for mountain dulcimer Mostly DAD tablature, with some duet arrangements.
A Collection of mostly well-known tunes arranged with a vocal staff and suggested chord changes.
Titles include Abide With Me, Beautiful Star of Bethlehem, Count Your Blessings, Precious Memories, Sweet Hour of Prayer, This World Is Not My Home, There Is A Fountain, thirty-one songs total.
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| Abide With Me Amazing Grace Balm In Gilead Beautiful Star of Bethlehem Count Your Blessings Crying Holy Deep river Down To The River He Leadeth Me How Firm A Foundation I Will Bow and Be Simple In The Sweet By and By Love Is Little Lovely Love Mary, Don't You Weep Morning Has Broken |
My Lord, What a Morning Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen O Come, Angel Band O, Dem Golden Slippers Old Gospel Ship Peace Like A River Precious Memories Simple Gifts Steal Away Sweet Hour of Prayer Swing Low, Sweet Chariot The Uncluded Day There Is A Fountain This World Is Not My Home Where The Roses Never Fade |
The Mountain Dulcimer
A Design for Success
- Book and Play Along CD
- For Individual, Classroom, and Special Populations
- Basic Playing Techniques
- Number and color song charts
- Appalachian song tunes and lyrics
- Suggested arrangements with rhythm, folk, and Orff instrumentation
- Book and CD
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| Colored Charts Are You Sleeping? Train Is A-Coming Paw-Paw Patch Hush Little Baby Skip To My Lou He's Got The Whole World In His Hands Mama Don't 'Low Aiken Drum Bile Them Cabbage Down One For The Little Bitty Baby Skip To My Lou |
Tablature Bile Them Cabbage Down Goose Played The Fiddle Ground Hog Go Tell Aunt Rhody Hush Little Baby Ida Red Old Bald Eagle Old Dan Tucker Paw-Paw Patch The Riddle Song |
Dulcimer A La Mode
Mel Bay Publication
Dulcimer A La Mode takes the mystery of out modal tuning and playing for the mountain dulcimer player by presenting four common tunings (DAA, DAG, DAD, and DAC) with instructions for tuning, finding the scales and chords, and learning traditional tunes in each of the four modes. This book will encourage players to retune their instrument and learn more of its versatility. Each tune is presented as a melody with a drone in the mode indicated with strumming and rhythm guides. An optional arrangement, or accompaniment is also provided for most tunes that uses more complex chords and reflects more of traditional western harmony. As a further learning tool, the accompanying CD allows the listener to play along with the melody or accompaniment.
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| DAA Tuning Rosewood Casket Bendemeer's Stream Careless Love Flow Gently, Sweet Afton Burden Down DAG Tuning Cluck Old Hen Pretty Polly Scarborough Fair Drunken Sailor She's Like A Swallow |
DAD Tuning Hurree, Hooroo Rock-A-My Soul Little Maggie Over The Waterfall June Apple DAC Tuning Butcher Boy Nine Hundred Miles Wayfaring Stranger Bound for the Promised Land Shady Grove |
Lullabies
Mel Bay Publication
Lullabies and Other Lilting Melodies is a compilation of tunes designed to "soothe the savage breast." The contents of the book are divided, almost equally, under the heading of Lullabies, Classical Selections, and Folk Melodies. All are arranged for the mountain dulcimer in 1-5-8 (Mixolydian tuning). Along with the tablature notation, traditional music notation indicates the melody, suggested chords, and lyrics for many of the songs. An intermediate player should feel comfortable with the music as the songs are indicated for both strumming and some finger picking patterns, and do utilize chords on all 3 strings. The CD recording is very helpful to understand rhythms and expression.
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| Lullabies Rock-A-Bye Baby The Cradle Song Still, Still, Still I Will Sing A Lullaby Slumber Song All The Pretty Horses Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening Classical Ode To Joy Andante Serenade Traumerei The Morning Song Dona Nobis Pacem Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring |
Folk Melodies Old Folks At Home Annie Laurie Wild Mountain Thyme My Wild Irish Rose My Old Kentucky Home Darling Nelly Gray Beautiful Dreamer Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms Hard Times Come Again No More |
Lullabies With CD
Mel Bay Publication
The CD is available for $6.95 when purchased with the book, for a total of $15.90.
Lullabies and Other Lilting Melodies is a compilation of tunes designed to "soothe the savage breast." The contents of the book are divided, almost equally, under the heading of Lullabies, Classical Selections, and Folk Melodies. All are arranged for the mountain dulcimer in 1-5-8 (Mixolydian tuning). Along with the tablature notation, traditional music notation indicates the melody, suggested chords, and lyrics for many of the songs. An intermediate player should feel comfortable with the music as the songs are indicated for both strumming and some finger picking patterns, and do utilize chords on all 3 strings. The CD recording is very helpful to understand rhythms and expression.
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| Lullabies Rock-A-Bye Baby The Cradle Song Still, Still, Still I Will Sing A Lullaby Slumber Song All The Pretty Horses Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening Classical Ode To Joy Andante Serenade Traumerei The Morning Song Dona Nobis Pacem Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring |
Folk Melodies Old Folks At Home Annie Laurie Wild Mountain Thyme My Wild Irish Rose My Old Kentucky Home Darling Nelly Gray Beautiful Dreamer Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms Hard Times Come Again No More |
The Celtic Collection
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. Two of the songs include a Part II for a suggested harmony. The book also features a CD recording of solo mountain dulcimer playing each tune in the book through twice at a medium tempo. The stereo recording allows the listener to learn the tune, as written, as well as hear some ideas for rhythmic strumming. Harmony parts are also played on the two songs that include a Part II.
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| George Brabazon Irish Lamentation Loch Lomond Foggy Dew The Minstrel Boy, (DAD/AEA) Flowers of Edinburgh Scotland The Brave Hewlett Off She Goes The Dawning of the Day Love Is Teasin' The Irish Washerwoman Farewell to Whiskey |
The Wicklow Hornpipe Sean Ryan's Polka The Hills of Lorne Shepherd's Hey The Water Is Wide Planxty Irwin Star of the County Down Country Gardens The Girl I Left Behind The Keel Row The Last Rose of Summer |
Traditional Playing of the Mountain Dulcimer
A collection of old time tunes arranged in DAA tuning with song lyrics, tablature, chord arrangements, strumming patterns PLUS a play along CD and DVD.
This book is great for those learning to play, as well as those that want to develop their skills and try playing with a noter, as well as advanced chord arrangements.
Over 20 great tunes to learn in a variety of ways, making this a keepsake book for years to come.
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| Bile Them Cabbage Down Go Tell Aunt Rhody Down In The Valley Waterbound Will The Circle Be Unbroken Polly Wolly Doodle Little Birdie The Riddle Song Handsome Molly Careless Love Banks of The Ohio Hand Me Down My Walking Cane |
My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains Long Journey Hoe Nine Pound Hammer Rosewood Casket Pay Me My Money Down John B. Oh, Them Golden Slippers Wildwood Flower Cripple Creek Fair and Tender Ladies |
Learn to Play the Mountain Dulcimer, Book I
This book is designed to help both children and adult beginners to understand the mountain dulcimer and how to make music quickly. As a self-instrucitonal book for learning basic music reading, the book also contains familiar songs with fret numbers, as well as strum indicators. Musical concepts and playing techniques are introduced as needed through the song literature. A sure and gentle way to begin mountain dulcimer playing!
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| Twinkle Twinkle LIttle Star Skip to My Lou When The Saints Go Marching In She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain Hush Little Baby Jacob's Ladder Waterbound Frere Jacques |
Amazing Grace Michael Row The Boat Ashore Bile Them Cabbage Down Fais Do Do Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening Baby Friendly Beasts The Christmas Star |
Learn to Play the Mountain Dulcimer, Book II
Book II follows the introduction of playing in Book I with introducing chord melodies in DAA and single line melodies on the melody and middle strings in DAD tuning. As in Book I, Book II includes song lyrics and chord accompaniment, familiar tunes, and large tab and illustrations.
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| DAA Tuning Tell Me Why Polly Wolly Doodle Hole In The Bucket My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean Do Lord Down In the Valley Oh, Dem Golden Slippers Long, Long Ago All Through The Night Will The Circle Be Unbroken |
DAD Tuning Old Joe Clark Soldier's Joy Pick A Bale Of Cotton Cherry Tree Carol Sail Away Ladies Sourwood Mountain Sally Goodin Red River Valley Turkey In the Straw Arkansas Traveler |
Christmas Solos and Duets for the Mountain Dulcimer
- Melody, Chords, Song Lyrics and Tablature for Mountain Dulcimer
- Intermediate Level Playing Arrangements
- Including Appalachian Christmas Tunes
- All Through The Night
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- Away In A Manger
- Christmas Day In The Morning
- Deck The Halls
- Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
- I Saw Three Ships
- In The Bleak Midwinter
- Jesus, Jesus Rest Your Head
- Joseph Liver, Joseph Mein
- Jesus Born In Beth'ny
- Now the Holly Bears A Berry
- Still, Still, Still
- Star Of The East, Brightest adn Best
- The Snow Lay On The Ground
- Silent Night
- The Huron Carol
- There Was A Pig Went Out To Dig
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- What Child Is This?
Advanced Arrangements in DAA Tuning
- Tradition, Religious & Christmas Selections
- Arranged in DAA Tuning for an intermediate playing level
- Westphalia Waltz
- Santa Lucia
- Will You Listen To me My Brown-Haired Girl?
- My Wild Irish Rose
- Barlow Knife
- Daisy Bell
- 'Tis The Old Ship of Zion
- The Haven Of Rest
- Rock of Ages
- He Is Born, The Holy Child
- Jingle Bells
- Go Tell It On The Mountain
- The Cherry Tree Carol
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- Good King Wenceslas
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Complete Package of Traditional Playing of the Mountain Dulcimer, Book/CD/DVD
A collection of old time tunes arranged in DAA tuning with song lyrics, tablature, chord arrangements, strumming patterns PLUS a play along CD and DVD.
This book is great for those learning to play, as well as those that want to develop their skills and try playing with a noter, as well as advanced chord arrangements.
Over 20 great tunes to learn in a variety of ways, making this a keepsake book for years to come.
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| Bile Them Cabbage Down Go Tell Aunt Rhody Down In The Valley Waterbound Will The Circle Be Unbroken Polly Wolly Doodle Little Birdie The Riddle Song Handsome Molly Careless Love Banks of The Ohio Hand Me Down My Walking Cane |
My Home's Across The Blue Ridge Mountains Long Journey Hoe Nine Pound Hammer Rosewood Casket Pay Me My Money Down John B. Oh, Them Golden Slippers Wildwood Flower Cripple Creek Fair and Tender Ladies |
This DVD will provide step by step instructions not only in learning the basics of holding, tuning, melody making and strumming, but will go beyond the basics to include playing chords and adding rhythmic variations to your strumming.
Purchase the companion book with the same title, or use the DVD alone as a basic playing guide.
Over 20 classic old time tunes are played in both noter style, as well as instruction in proper fingering technique using chords.
Southern Harmony for Mountain Dulcimer
Shape Note Singing Tradition Arranged for Dulcimer Players
3 part arrangements for mountain dulcimer based on the vocal arrangements of the shaped note singing arrangements in William Walker's Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion, newly released and published by University of Kentucky Press.
Soprano, Tenor, and Bass parts for:
- Holy Manna
- New Britain (Amazing Grace)
- Rock of Ages
- Happy Land
- The Promised Land
- What Wondrous Love Is This
- When I Am Gone
- The Christian's Farewell
Assorted Harp Arrangements (Solo and Ensemble)
A variety of songs for a variety of occasions in a variety of keys for the novice and intermediate player of folk or lever harp.
Folk, Christmas, Classical, Ensemble, Original, Sacred, Rounds, and Celtic
- Lady Owen's Delight
- Bridget Cruise
- Arran Boat Song
- How Can I Keep From Singing?
- After You
- Sheep May Safely Grave
- Christmas Day In The Morning
- I Saw Three Ships
- Auld Lang Syne
- Just As I Am
- Road To Lisdoonvarna
- Simple Gifts
- Breton Circle
- Good Night
- Parsons Farewell
- The Bard of Armagh