Folk Traditional category: 475 books

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Moonlight: Music On a Mountain

The Detailed & Whimsical Diary of a 21st Century Deep-South Listening Room

by Keith Harrelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017

"Moonlight: Music On A Mountain" is a compendium of over three hundred weekly newsletters emailed to the fans and supporters of an original acoustic music venue in Birmingham Alabama. Part diary, part blog, and part encyclopedia, this collection presents the proprietor’s voice, views, and visions...
Cover of Five Popular Persian Ballads for Solo Classic Guitar
by Lily Afshar
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018

Here, for the first time, Mel Bay Publications offers Persian folk music arranged for the guitar by the Iranian-born, award winning international concert guitarist, Lily Afshar. This collection includes four love songs and a lullaby. These arrangements are extremely lyrical as they depict a singer's...
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by Leon Rosselson, Mitchell Abidor
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016

Like so many of those others in Britain of Jewish lineage, songwriter and award-winning folk singer Leon Rosselson is descended from antecedents who fled pogroms in eastern Europe. Pertinently, he questions what being a Jew means—is it adherence to Judaism as a religion, an ethnicity, a citizen...
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Scandinavian Song

A Guide to Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Repertoire and Diction

by Anna Hersey
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016

Scandinavian art songs are a unique expression of the cultures of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Although these three countries are distinct from one another, their languages and cultures share many similarities. Common themes found in art and literature include a love of nature, especially of the sea,...
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Cancionero

Songs of Laughter and Faith in New Mexico

by John Donald Robb
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015

Composer John Donald Robb (1892–1989) built an invaluable legacy in the preservation of New Mexico’s rich musical traditions. His extensive field recordings, compositions, papers, and photographs now comprise the John Donald Robb Archives in the University of New Mexico Libraries’ Center for...
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Right to the Juke Joint

A Personal History of American Music

by Patrick B Mullen
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018

The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into the sprawling Arcadia of American music. That music fused so-called civilized elements with native forms to produce everything from Zydeco to Conjunto to jazz to Woody Guthrie. The civilized/native...
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by Rob MacKillop
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018

Here is the Forgotten Heritage: Great Banjo Music! Discover the birth of the American fingerstyle banjo in this collection of 28 of the finest tunes culled from banjo publications between 1860 and 1887. Learn amazing banjo music by some of the early leading players, James Buckley, Albert Baur, and...
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A Treasury of Favorite Songs for Autoharp

for Autoharp, Guitar, Ukulele, Mandolin, Banjo, and Keyboard

by Meg Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018

The songs and ballads in this book include a rich selection of favorite American folk songs, patriotic songs, sentimental songs from the past, and songs from other lands. They have been arranged in the keys that are most suitable for singing, and can be played in a variety of styles using only the...
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by Kim Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019

This collection of melodies for quiet times draws mostly on the rich repertoire of the Celtic folk tradition. The song Tender Shepherd is not included in this book.
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by Frank Zucco
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019

A great solo book for the accordion player who is just beginning. In the tradition of the "Fun With" series, Fun with the Accordion provides a wide range of favorites in both the folk and light classic styles, including polkas, ragtime, bluegrass, Dixieland, and songs from many lands. All the selections were carefully arranged to provide a full accordion sound.
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The Flatlanders

Now It's Now Again

by John T. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014

A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years later—a band. The Flatlanders—Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—are icons...
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by Tudor Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018

Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's...
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Christmas Eve

16 Solos for Celtic Harp

by Sunita Staneslow
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018

Christmas Eve is a transcription of the recording by harp virtuoso Sunita Staneslow. It features 16 exquisite holiday tunes written in standard notation for the Scottish clarsach or folk harp.
Cover of Clawhammer Ukulele: Tabs and Techniques
by Aaron Keim
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013

Clawhammer ukulele instructional book by Aaron Keim. 18 songs in tablature format with several pages of instruction, tips and techniques (including traditional songs and original songs by Aaron). Included within some songs are links to youtube videos for demonstration purposes! (Very helpful for those...
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