Par . This new addition to the First 50 series is a one-of-a-kind collection of accessible, well-known traditional, folk and pop songs arranged expertly for dulcimer by Steven B. Eulberg. / Date parution : 2022-07-23/ Recueil / Dulcimer

Spiced with humor Anne Dodson?s Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book 1 is a beautifully structured and organized guide taking the beginning student step-by-step through a well-planned sequence oflessons.Friendly and encouraging Book 1 covers tips on buying and maintaining the instrument left and right hand techniques chords and accompaniment. Exercises lots of fun tunes to play and downloadable audio files tosupport the written instruction all make Field Guide to the Mountain Dulcimer Book I a lasting resource.

This book provides 20 beautiful Anglo-American folk songs field-collected by two remarkable real-life 'song catchers ' Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine andLoraine the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway a composer and arranger were among the first persons to search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians. The musical adventurers traveled hundreds of miles on horseback andon foot through an inaccessible world to which radios roads and cars had not yet come. They made friends in isolated log cabins and transcribed some 200 song treasures some of which they published in complex arrangements inbooks that are now out of print and rare. This book contains a selection of the songs presented with simplified musical notation guitar chords and dulcimer tablature. It also includes glowing accounts of their mountainadventures published by Josephine and Howard in long-forgotten publications; a must for all lovers of American folk music.