Description: Traditional English folk music is presented here arranged for the mountain dulcimer. These selections depict the trials and tribulations of everyday life, including courtship, marriage, work, crime, lost love, changing of seasons, songs of children, songs of sailors, and old ballads. When applicable the author has indicated which tunes are Child Ballads, that is, derived from the well-known collection of ballads published by Francis James Child between 1882 and 1898. All selections are written in standard notation and dulcimer tablature with chord symbols. Explanations of the notation and tablature systems are included. Each tune is presented with complete lyrics as well as historical notes. The tunings used include DAD, CGC, DCA, DAG, and DGD, CFC. Some of the tunes require and 6+ fret. Includes access to online audio containing 15 of the songs featured in the book. Spiral bound paperback book A-Begging I Will Go A-Roving All For Me Grog All Jolly Fellows That Follow the Plough All Things Are Quite Silent As I Was Going to Banbury Banks of the Sweet Primroses Barbara Allen The Blacksmith Byker Hill Claudy Banks Country Life The Cuckoo Dance To Your Daddy Dives and Lazuras False Knight on the Road Gaol Song The Golden Vanity Hal-An-Tow Hard Times of Old England Here's the Tender Coming Hi! Ho! The Rattlin' Bog Hunt the Wren I Live Not Where I Love I Was a Young Man It's a Rosebud in June John Barleycorn Lovely Joan Matty Groves The May Day Carol My Johnny Was a Shoemaker The Nutting Girl Over the Hills and Far Away Padstow May Song Prickle Holly Bush Queen Jane Rose of Allendale Scarborough Fair Searching Lambs Sovay Spotted Cow Staines Morris The Streams of Lovely Nancy The Trees They Do Grow High
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Publication Name: English Songs & Ballads for Appalachian Dulcimer
Type: Workbook
MPN: MB97232BCD
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Incorporated
Book Title: English Songs and Ballads for Dulcimer BK/CD
Topic: History & Criticism, Musical Instruments / Strings
Publication Year: 2000
Number of Pages: 120 Pages
Language: English
Genre: Music
Item Length: 11.8 in
Author: Lance Frodsham
Item Width: 9 in
Format: Trade Paperback