Description

Complete Dulcimer Handbook
by Mark Biggs

Product Number: 94047BCD
ISBN: 078666794X
Publisher: Mel Bay Pub., Inc.
Difficulty Level: Multiple Levels
Format: Book/CD Set

This book was written as a basic guide and source book for all dulcimer players, from the absolute novice to the most advanced picker. With its 53 songs in various modes and tunings, The Complete Dulcimer Handbook is meant to be used as a songbook, a lesson plan book, and a step-by-step guide from beginner to intermediate or advanced level. The author’s basic premise is that, given this instrument’s relatively brief pedagogical history, “There are no right or wrong ways to play the mountain dulcimer, only harder or easier means of reaching the same ends”. The stereo CD features the authors outstanding performance of 17 tunes from the book.

CONTENTS

Mixolydian Songs
Oh Susanna
The Camptown Races
Swanee River
Wildwood Flower
La Paloma
Sonya’s Song
Jacky Tar
Silent Night
Sweet Betsy from Pike
Johnny, I hardly Knew You/ When Johnny Comes Marching Home
The Road to Lisdoonvarna
Minuet in G (Bach)
Hard Times Come Again No More
My Old Kentucky Home
Red River Valley
Red-Haired Boy
Arkansas Traveler

Twenty-two Songs(Intermediate to advanced)
Maid of Amsterdam
Irish Washerwoman
Lady Owen’s Delight
The Lass of Gowrie
The Lass of Richmond Hill
The Lass of Patie’s Mill
The Shepherd’s Hey
The Handsome Couple
Linnen Hall
The Golden Star (Thomas Connelan)
La Paloma
Blue Mood (M. Biggs)
Fugue (for Lute)
What if a Day
Wilson’s Wilde (J. Dowland)
Two Renaissance Lute Pieces
Meagan Jayne (M. Biggs)
Planxty Irwin (O’Carolan)
Planxty Morgan Magan (O’Carolan)
Lord Inchiquin (O’Carolan)
Give Me Your Hand (Rory Dall O’Cathain)
Maybe You’ll Wander (M. Biggs)

Ionian and New Ionian Songs
Hand Me Down My Walking Cain
Shenandoah
Go to Jane Glover
Cripple Creek
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn)
O’Keefe’s Slide
Planxty Fanny Power (O’Carolan)
Farewell
Abaresque (Biggs-Tyndall)

Aeolian Songs
Black Hag
Shady Grove
Scarborough Fair
Packington’s Pound
Greensleeves