Folk Traditional category: 475 books
by Lenny Everson
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011
For those people who are tired of singing “dip, dip, and swing”, and would prefer canoeing songs with a little more originality to them, Lenny Everson offers 13 songs adapted from his famous canoeing poems.
What you get are the lyrics with guitar chords. The songs use traditional tunes, so you...
by Fiona Magowan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2005
This collection shows how traditional music and dance have responded to colonial control in the past and more recently to other external forces beyond local control. It looks at musical pasts and presents as a continuum of creativity; at contemporary cultural performance as a contested domain; and...
by Lenny Everson
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
For those hikers who are would like , Lenny Everson offers 10 songs, some adapted from his muck-downloaded book of hiking poems.
What you get are the lyrics with guitar chords. The songs use traditional tunes (such as "Oh Susannah" or “Green Grow the Lilacs”, so you can hear how they...
Wayfaring Strangers
The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them...
The Transformation of Black Music
The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie...
The Scots Fiddle
(Vol 1) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the North-East & Central Highlands
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
The first of a three-volume series, The Scots Fiddle --Tunes, Tales &; Traditions. This work combines an extensive and fascinating collection of traditional fiddle music (over 160 tunes) relating to the North-East and Central Highlands together with extensive background narratives and anecdotes...
by Art Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1968
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1968
An Instruction Method for playing the old-time five-string mountain banjo
based on the styles of traditional banjo-pickers.
by Kevin Allison
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
While one of a kind is a hard rating to achieve at Mel Bay Publications, Kevin Allison has done it with The Ceilidh Dance Book. A ceilidh is a traditional Scottish gathering where people share songs, stories, music, and dancing that is very much alive today. In Scotland, there are hundreds of...
100 Tunes from O'Neill's Music of Ireland
Selected and Arranged in Sets for Mandolin
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Anyone who is serious about learning Irish traditional music will eventually come across O'Neill's Music of Ireland, a collection of well over 1000 tunes. This book contains a selection of one hundred tunes from this collection, arranged into sets for mandolin which can be used at sessions, and for...
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by Dan Milner, Paul Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 1983
Traditional songs from the British Isles, each features guitar chord symbols and special tunings. Informative notes to each song, a discography and a bibliography.
by Jerry Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1963
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1963
The selection of songs was designed to give players a repertoire of the most common played tunes, as well as examples of the most commonly used techniques. The GUITAR collection contains a classic Bill Monroe tune Big Mon and 24 traditional tunes, ranging from Arkansas Traveler, Turkey in the Straw,...
by Bill Brennan
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
A rousing collection of flatpicking guitar solos in notation and tablature. Melodies were drawn from Ireland, Scotland, and the border countries of Northumberland, Durham, and Cumbria. The tunes are all traditional and would normally be played for dancing. Audio download available online.
by Steve Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
Here is a book of tunes from the Elizabethan era-the great period of English song-set in tablature for the clawhammer banjo. At first glance, it is true, the songs of Shakespeare-s day and the mountain banjo seem to be worlds apart. But the musical traditions are, in fact, related, as Elizabethan...
The Scots Fiddle
(Vol 3) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the Western Highlands, Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2012
In the third of a three-volume set of The Scots Fiddle, J. Murray Neil has compiled a collection of the fiddle music of Scotland from the West Highlands, Hebrides, Orkney & Shetland. It includes a wonderful selection of traditional fiddle tunes and song airs that are played and sung wherever Scots...