A beginning method for the Appalachian dulcimer with a unique new approach to solo melody and chord playing. Includes tuning, modes and many beautiful folk songs. This second edition has added more songs, new photos, and is completely re-edited.
The Hal Leonard Dulcimer Method is designed for anyone just learning to play the mountain (Appalachian) dulcimer, but is equally useful to the intermediate player. This comprehensive and easy-to-use guide includes many techniques, tips, and fun songs to learn and play. The accompanying audio contains 54 tracks of traditional songs for demonstration and play along. Completely re-edited, this second edition features more songs, new photos and brand new demonstration recordings. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Dulcimer a La Mode takes the mystery out of 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 re-tune 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. For most tunes, an optional arrangement or accompaniment is also provided using more complex chords and reflecting more traditional Western harmony. As a further learning tool, the accompanying audio allows the listener to play along with the song as presented in the book. Includes access to online audio.
Contents:
Ionian
• Rosewood Casket (Melody)
• Rosewood Casket (Optional Arrangement)
• Bendemeer's Stream
• Bendemeer's Stream (Optional Arrangement)
• Careless Love (Melody)
• Careless Love (Optional Arrangement)
• Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (Melody)
• Flow Gently, Sweet Afton (Optional Arrangement)
• Burden Down (Melody)
• Burden Down (Optional Arrangement)
Dorian
• Cluck Old Hen (Melody)
• Cluck Old Hen (Optional Arrangement)
• Pretty Polly (Melody)
• Pretty Polly (Optional Arrangement)
• Scarborough Fair (Melody)
• Scarborough Fair (Optional Arrangement)
• Drunken Sailor (Melody)
• Drunken Sailor (with Optional Accompaniment)
• She's Like A Swallow (with Optional Accompaniment)
Mixolydian
• Hurree, Hooroo (with Optional Accompaniment)
• Rock-A-My Soul (Melody)
• Rock -A-My soul (with Optional Accompaniment)
• Little Maggie (with Optional Accompaniment)
• Over the Waterfall (Melody)
• Over the Waterfall (with Optional Accompaniment)
• June Apple (Melody)
• June Apple (Optional Arrangement)
Aeolian
• The Butcher Boy (Melody)
• The Butcher Boy (with Optional Accompaniment)
• Nine Hundred Miles (with Optional Accompaniment)
• Wayfarin' Stranger (with Optional Accompaniment)
• Bound For the Promised Land (Melody)
• Bound For the Promised Land (Optional Arrangement)
• Shady Grove (Melody)
• Shady Grove (with Optional Accompaniment)
The dulcimer is a unique instrument in many ways, with the modal layout of the fretboard prime among them. Early in its days in the Appalachian Mountains players would retune a string, bringing the dulcimer from major to minor and other modes. Today's players work in different tunings also, and this book shows why and how all of this happens.
Music is a language that comes from the soul rather than solely from the dots and lines. However, the dots and lines have their own stories. Learn where the notes fall on the fretboard and how they fit into the modes most dulcimer players know: Ionian/Major, Aeolian/Minor, Mixolydian and Dorian. Scale variations, pentatonic and hexatonic, are also outlined. Fifteen songs and tunes are written in musical notation as well as dulcimer tablature. Includes access to online audio with the tunings and count-offs, enabling one to play all of the songs in the book along with the recording.
* Location of musical notes on the dulcimer.
* Study of modes: Ionian/Major, Aeolian/Minor, Mixolydian and Dorian.
* Study of scale variations: pentatonic and hexatonic
* Songs and tunes written in musical notation and tablature.
* Includes access to online play-along audio.
Contents:
• All The World Is Sleeping
• Angels Watchin' Over Me
• At The Foot of Yonder Mountain
• Auld Lang Syne
• Bethel
• Blackbirds and Thrushes
• Fortune My Foe
• Geordie
• Goin' To Boston
• Greensleeves
• John Brown's Dream
• No Body's Jig
• Spanish Ladies
• The Rolling of the Stones
• The Shepherd and His Fife
35 dances arranged for oboe duet as well as a few trios (some with English horn). Includes suggested rhythmic alterations for some pieces. Score format.
Contents:
· The Great Hunt
· Little Gypsy
· Little Gypsy (2)
· The Ship
· The Two Mills
· The Anchor
· The King's Arms
· Bagatelle
· The Bells
· Jack-of-the-Green
· Happy Springtime
· The Monkeys
· Capuchina
· The Sentinel & His Minuet
· The Dove Cote
· Glory
· The Fricasee
· The Contra Clarin
· The Shepherd's Hour
· The Minuet for Four
· The Old Bachelor
· The Little Dulcimer
· The King's March
· The English Passeipied
· Prince George
· The French Flag
· The Quadrille
· The French Ambassador
· The English Flageolet
· The Surrenderings of Love
· The Girl from Velencia
· The Royal Weddings
· The Galop
· The University of Oxford
· Thye Soldier & His Girlfriend
· He, the Falsehearted One
This sparkling setting is a buoyant celebration of the season. Perform it with the original French text or English and with piano or chamber ensemble. Available for SATB and SA. Score and Parts for Flute, Oboe, Hammer Dulcimer, Harp and Cello are available separately. Performance Time: Approx. 4:30.
This sparkling setting is a buoyant celebration of the season. Perform it with the original French text or English and with piano or chamber ensemble. Available for SATB and SA. Score and Parts for Flute, Oboe, Hammer Dulcimer, Harp and Cello are available separately. Performance Time: Approx. 4:30.
This collection includes 11 reverent hymn arrangements for intermediate piano solo, focusing on the themes of peace, hope, and gratitude. Includes selections for Easter and Thanksgiving.
Contents:
• It Is Well with My Soul
• Hope of Israel
• A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief
• Amazing Grace
• Softly and Tenderly
• Restoration Medley:
    (Joseph Smith’s First Prayer • What Was Witnessed in the Heavens? • Rejoice, the Lord Is King!)
• I Know That My Redeemer Lives
• God Be with You Till We Meet Again
• His Voice, as the Sound of the Dulcimer Sweet
• He Is Risen
• Prayer of Thanksgiving
Cape Cod Girls – TB (Moran/Young)
The hymn settings in this volume were written for students; developing organists who play regularly in worship services and need accessible arrangements for preludes, postludes, and organ solos.
Registration indications are merely suggestions and can be adapted to fit a variety of instruments and occasions.
Contents:
• FIDELITY “How Firm a Foundation”
• FOLWER “We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet”
• NEANDER “He is Risen”
• DULCIMER “Redeemer of Israel”
• ST. ANNE “O God, Our Help in Ages Past”
