An exciting collection of music for the Hammered Dulcimer as heard on Maggie Sansone's acclaimed recording A Celtic Fair. America's premier Hammered Dulcimer recording artist and player Sansone has created a perfect collection for all levels of playing including both a beginning 'melody-only' version and challenging intermediate versions with variations ornaments flams and bass runs. Two earlymusic pieces included present the melody and a version for duet and quartet with bass line. The music is drawn from jigs reels and airs from Ireland Scotland and Brittany France and Renaissance dance manuscripts. The sheetmusic is presented as the basic melody with chords and many of the tunes include a variety of advanced techniques (ornamentation flams rolls use of bass lines use of unusual modes and scales and interesting chord substitution)to add spice to the arrangements and challenge the player to reach towards the next level of advanced performance. Audio available online.

Every aspect of the Hammered Dulcimer and its playing techniques is covered in this comprehensive yet easy-to-understand text. A masterful teacher Madeline MacNeil exceeds the expectations of a beginner's book providing a firm foundation for the development of a total musician while maintaining an engaging informal tone throughout. With detailed discussions on Dulcimer layout hammers tuning and stands plus extensive performancenotes on every tune this book is a valuable asset to the beginning through intermediate player.From Oh Suzanna to Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Madeline shows the novice Dulcimer player how to'map your way through' a new piece of music finding clear musical directions through what at first must seem like a maze of strings.All tunes are in standard notation. The book is illustrated with photos as well as quaintwoodcuts engravings and pen and ink drawings. The companion 85-minute video and audio contains essential basic information on playing the Hammered Dulcimer--such as tuning major and minor keys duplicated notes repeated notes modulations walking bass lines chromatic notes drone harmony back-up chords interval harmony and more! Also contains Madeline MacNeil's Hammered Dulcimer solos on 25 tunes. Audio and video downloads are availableonline.

A companion video to Madeline MacNeil's You Can Teach Yourself Hammered Dulcimer book.Contains essential information on playing the Hammered Dulcimer--such as tuning major and minor keys duplicatednotes repeated notes modulations walking bass lines chromatic notes drone harmony back-up chords interval harmony and more.Also contains Madeline MacNeil's Hammered Dulcimer arrangements of 25 tunes.

Par MC NEIL MADELINE. Livre du grand débutant un autre de Madeline MacNeil, expliquant chaque aspect du jeu le dulcimer martelé. Des discussions détaillées sur dulcimer layout, marteaux, tuning, et les peuplements aux notes de vastes performances sur chaque tune, ce livre fournit une mine de renseignements pour tous les élèves du dulcimer martelé. Oh Suzanna à Jesu, Joy of Man désirant, Madeline montre le novice joueur dulcimer comment ' carte votre chemin à travers ' un nouveau morceau de musique, trouver clairs et orientations musicales à travers ce qui dans un premier temps doit ressembler à un labyrinthe de chaînes. Tous les morceaux est en notation standard. 87 Pages du livre sont illustrés par des photos ainsi que des gravures sur bois pittoresques, gravures et dessins de plume et l'encre. Le DVD de 85-minute companion contient des informations de base essentielles sur jouant le dulcimer martelé--comme le tuning, majeur et mineur touches, notes dupliqués, notes répétées, modulations, lignes de basse marche, notes chromatiques, drone harmonie, accords de recul, harmonie de l'intervalle et plus ! Contient également Madelin... / Niveau : Débutant / All Styles - Methods / Méthode / Dulcimer (Cordes frappées)