Product Number:
97232EB
Format:
eBook + Online Audio
Skill Level:
Beginning-Intermediate
Notation Type:
Standard Notation and Tab
Pages:
121
Binding:
eBook
ISBN:
1-6191-1983-8
ISBN13:
978-16191-1983-3
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
1/26/2020
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.
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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