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.

Amazing Grace  

Arirang  

Bastringue, La  

Believe Me, If All Those Endearing   Young Charms  

Belle de la Louisiane  

Bianco Fiore  

Blues in D  

Bryllupsgarden  

Can-Can, The  

Can't You Dance the Polka?  

Canzone Di Zampognari  

Colinda                                                            

Comin' Through the Rye                                             

Country Gardens                                                    

Dance Around Gulliver  

Deer Chase, The  

Du, Du, Liegst Mir im Herzen  

Early One Morning  

Emperor Waltz  

Flying Cloud's Cotillion  

Follow the Drinking Gourd  

Fynbo  

Good Night  

Greensleeves  

Hana  

Hatikvah  

Here's to the Maiden  

Hey, Jenny Lou  

The Kid on the  Mountain

Kit Kime Elvenni?  

Leaning on the Everlasting Arms  

Lovely Evening  

Mazurka de Julie, Le  

Merrily, Merrily  

Mi Casita  

Molly St. George  

Morpeth Rant  

Muss I Denn  

One More Time!

Parson's Farewell  

Peach, Another Shuffle  

Pipe on the Hob  

Polka des Sorciers  

Polka from Sunnerbo  

Polska fran Ostergotland  

Rampart Street  

Russian Folk Air  

Sally Goodin  

Salt River  

Santa Lucia  

Scotland the Brave  

Sonny's Mazurka  

Sur Le Pont D'Avignon  

Sweet Music  

Texas Quickstep  

Tinga Layo  

Visa  

Vive La Compagnie                                                 

Wabash Cannon Ball                                                

Wade in the Water                                                  

Wha Wadna Fecht for Charlie                                        

Whoopee Ti-Yi-Yo                                                  

Wild Mountain Thyme                                               

Wildwood Flower                                                   

Ye Banks and Braes of Bonnie Doon