This collection presents a colorful array of music for the fretted dulcimer illustrating a wide variety of playing styles and techniques. Mel Bay Publications asked Lois to author this method book/collection because of the adventurous diversity of her playing techniques and musical interests. It is a tour de force of mountain dulcimer playing techniques, ranging from traditional southern Appalachian to Cajun music, cowboy songs, sea chanteys, black spirituals, traditional Irish, Scottish, and English music, camp-meeting songs, and European, Mexican, Israeli, and Oriental folk music. The book also offer basic instruction on reading music and tablature, right- and left-hand techniques such as hammer-ons and pull-offs, strumming, fingerpicking, flatpicking, various tunings, and accompaniment chords. The pieces themselves are arranged in notation and tablature for the three-string dulcimer in a variety of tunings with lyrics where appropriate.

Anthology for the Fretted Dulcimer

Amazing Grace...................................................................................................... 58

Arirang................................................................................................................. 139

Bastringue, La..................................................................................................... 172

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing   Young Charms.......................................... 50

Belle de la Louisiane............................................................................................ 34

Bianco Fiore........................................................................................................ 177

Blues in D............................................................................................................ 151

Bryllupsgarden.................................................................................................... 119

Can-Can, The...................................................................................................... 144

Can't You  Dance the Polka?............................................................................... 40

Canzone Di Zampognari...................................................................................... 103

Colinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

Comin' Through the Rye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Country Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Dance Around Gulliver....................................................................................... 128

Deer Chase, The.................................................................................................... 33

Du, Du, Liegst  Mir im Herzen............................................................................ 94

Early One Morning............................................................................................... 72

Emperor Waltz...................................................................................................... 89

Flying Cloud's Cotillion....................................................................................... 175

Follow the Drinking Gourd.................................................................................. 42

Fynbo.................................................................................................................. 116

Good Night........................................................................................................... 63

Greensleeves........................................................................................................ 134

Hana.................................................................................................................... 126

Hatikvah.................................................................................................... 108

Here's to the Maiden............................................................................................. 69

Hey, Jenny Lou................................................................................................... 166

Kid on the  Mountain, The................................................................................... 86

Kit Kime Elvenni?............................................................................................... 111

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.......................................................................... 60

Lovely Evening..................................................................................................... 64

azurka de Julie, Le................................................................................................ 131

Merrily, Merrily..................................................................................................... 65

Mi Casita.............................................................................................................. 106

Molly St George.................................................................................................... 78

Morpeth Rant........................................................................................................ 70

Muss I Denn.......................................................................................................... 96

One More Time!................................................................................................... 163

Parson's Farewell.................................................................................................... 71

Peach, Another Shuffle....................................................................................... 157

Pipe on the Hob.................................................................................................... 84

Polka des Sorciers................................................................................................ 100

Polka from Sunnerbo............................................................................................. 114

Polska fran Ostergotland..................................................................................... 124

Rampart Street....................................................................................................... 46

Russian Folk Air.................................................................................................. 112

Sally Goodin.......................................................................................................... 31

Salt River............................................................................................................. 167

Santa Lucia.......................................................................................................... 105

Scotland the Brave................................................................................................ 74

Sonny's Mazurka.................................................................................................... 80

Sur Le Pont D'Avignon....................................................................................... 102

Sweet Music......................................................................................................... 179

Texas Quickstep................................................................................................... 170

Tinga Layo........................................................................................................... 141

Visa...................................................................................................................... 120

Vive La Compagnie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38

Wabash Cannon Ball. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

Wade in the Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

Wild Mountain Thyme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81

Wildwood Flower . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Ye Banks and Braes of  Bonnie Doon................................................................ 148