Mountain Dulcimer Duets, Trios, and Rounds
Duets and Trios for mountain dulcimer in DAD tuning. Includes American and Celtic folk tunes, Fiddle tunes, Christmas, Cowboy and Classical tunes.
ROUNDS
Make New Friends White Coral Bells Shalom Chaverim Alleluia
DUETS
Kum Ba Yah
We Shall Overcome
Liza Jane
French Mazurka
Good King Wenceslas Waltz Quadrille Southwind
Largo from the
“New World Symphony” Hewlett
Be Thou My Vision Coleman’s March
The Water Is Wide Sonny’s Mazurka
Give Me Your Hand
TRIOS
The Old Chisholm Trail Sweet Betsy From Pike Little Birdie
All The Way To Galway
Mountain Dulcimer: A Survival Guide for Beginners
Equipment, Part of a Dulcimer, Tools, Strings, Picks,Tuners, Straps, Fret Markers, Tuning
1-5-8 or Mixolydian Ear vs. Electronic
Notes Scales
Mixolydian vs. Major First Songs
By Ear and By Tablature (Fret Numbers) By Notes
Rhythm Hand and Strumming Fingerpicking
Introduction to Chords Two Chord Songs Three Chord Songs
Finger Positions, Getting around the melody string
Melody Across the Strings
Picking the middle string
More Chord Theory
I- IV- V Chord Progression
Chords in D Major
Combining chords and melodies
Amazing Grace
Bile Them Cabbage Down Buffalo Gals
Camptown Races
Chanters Tune
Going to Boston
Gray Cat on a Tennessee Farm Happy Land
Home On The Range
Lil’ Liza Jane
Old Joe Clark
Oh, Susanna
Rock-A My Soul
Shortnin’ Bread
Soldiers Joy
Streets of Laredo
Susanna Gal
What A Friend We Have In Jesus What’ll I Do With The Baby-O
Traditional Playing of the Mountain Dulcimer
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.
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Bile Them Cabbage Down | 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 |
Lullabies and Other Lilting Melodies
A collection of gentle tunes to soothe the day away. Available in print or as an e-book.
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Lullabies | Folk Melodies |
Dulcimer a la Mode
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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 SwallowDAD 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
Christmas Solos and Duets for the Mountain Dulcimer
- 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?
Sacred Music Collection
Hymns, spirituals, and gospels arranged for mountain dulcimer. Mostly DAD tablature, with some duet arrangements.
Includes:
Abide With Me Go Tell It On The Mountain Deep riverDown 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 It is Well With My Soul All People That on Earth Do Dwell |
Southern Harmony For Mountain Dulcimer
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
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, DAD) tuning along with a few tunes in 1-5-5 (Ionian, DAA) tuning. The arrangements make use of the capo as well as playing tunes in Em and Bm. Two of the songs include a Part 1 and Part 2 as suggested harmony. The book also features a CD recording of solo and mountain dulcimer playing each tune in the book through twice at a medium tempo. The stereo recording allows the listener to learn the tune by ear, or follow along by tab, or traditional notation.
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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 |
The Mountain Dulcimer: A Design for Success
ebook and digital music files
The Mountain Dulcimer
A Design for Success
- ebook and audio files
- 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 |