In the Classroom

Teaching the Mountain Dulcimer

"Constructing the Cardboard Dulcimer by Backyard Music"

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 $19.95

Table of Contents

• 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

Things About Strings

Lorinda Jones is a nationally recognized folk music performer, recording artist, and music therapist, residing in Rineyville, Kentucky. Based on her 13 years of teaching music in the classroom, and her lifelong interest in folk music, Lorinda has produced an educational video that is the most comprehensive of its kind. The video not only allows the listener to hear the sound of each instrument, but also provides historical information, plus a visual and aural presentation showing the parts of the instruments:

• Autoharp
• Banjo
• Bass fiddle
• Mouth bow
• Folk harp
• Lyre harp
• Hammered dulcimer
• Mountain dulcimer
• Fiddle
• Guitar
• Mandolin
• Psaltery
• Zither
• Scheitholt

After viewing the video, students remarked how they enjoyed hearing the variety of instruments, how the conversation dialogue kept their attention for 30 minutes, and how much they learned about the roots of American music, including mountain and Bluegrass music.

The Teacher's Edition CD-Rom is a valuable tool for the teacher as a comprehensive lesson plan as it includes:

• Vocabulary list
• Pre and Post Test
• Matching word game
• Historical timeline
• Instructional content
• In-depth history about the dulcimer and harp
• Video script
• Instrument pictures

The video and CD-Rom can be used as a total unit package, or as a preceding or follow-up activity in coordination with a performance visit.
Video Cost: $15.95
Teacher's Edition CD, with purchase of video: $9.95