Appalachian Fiddle Music

Author : Drew Beisswenger,Roy M. Andrade,Scott Prouty
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781513459936

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Appalachian Fiddle Music by Drew Beisswenger,Roy M. Andrade,Scott Prouty Pdf

Appalachian fiddle music, based on the musical traditions of the people who settled in the mountainous regions of the southeastern United States, is widely-known and played throughout North America and parts of Europe because of its complex rhythms, its catchy melodies, and its often-ancient-sounding stylistic qualities. The authors explore the lives and music of 43 of the classic Appalachian fiddlers who were active during the first half of the 20th century. Some of them were recorded commercially in the 1920s, such as Gid Tanner, Fiddlin’ John Carson, and Charlie Bowman. Some were recorded by folklorists from the Library of Congress, such as William Stepp, Emmett Lundy, and Marion Reece. Others were recorded informally by family members and visitors, such as John Salyer, Emma Lee Dickerson, and Manco Sneed. All of them played throughout most of their lives and influenced the growth and stylistic elements of fiddle music in their regions. Each fiddler has been given a chapter with a biography, several tune transcriptions, and tune histories. To show the richness of the music, the authors make a special effort to show the musical elements in detail, but also acknowledge that nothing can take the place of listening. Many of the classic recordings used in this book can be found on the web, allowing you to hear and read the music together.

Author : Miles Krassen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:32000003268523

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Appalachian Fiddle by Miles Krassen Pdf

Fifty-eight grand old tunes from the mountains of Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky. Jigs, reels, hornpipes, and breakdowns, transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers, with authoritative notes, ideas for embellishments, bowing techniques, and double stops chart.

Author : Ken Perlman
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781513455082

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Appalachian Fiddle Tunes for Clawhammer Banjo by Ken Perlman Pdf

This comprehensive collection features over 100 note-for-note skillfully-crafted clawhammer banjo arrangements of “old-time” Southern fiddle tunes, in clear tablature - with suggested guitar chords at a wide variety of skill levels. It contains most of the tunes played in concert or recorded by author Ken Perlman and renowned Appalachian-style fiddler Alan Jabbour, plus over 50 more classic tunes from Ed Haley, Edden Hammons, John Salyer and many other iconic roots fiddlers. Also included: • Instruction on basic and advanced techniques • Tips on improving your musicianship • How to play syncopated rhythms and melodies in clawhammer style • Frameworks for dealing with crooked tunes and modal tunes • Historical notes and picturesque backstories • Ken Perlman demonstrates all tunes and most musical illustrations on 124 online audio tracks *Online Audio Includes: 24 tracks featuring excerpts from recordings of the author performing with the virtuosic fiddler Alan Jabbour, to whom the book is dedicated.

Author : Ken Kolodner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Fiddle tunes
ISBN : 0786681578

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Old-Time Fiddle Style Book/CD Set by Ken Kolodner Pdf

Ken Kolodner's book presents transcriptions with detailed bowings in tandem withthree recorded versions of 35 Appalachian fiddle tunes ranging from some very common and easy tunes (for more beginning players) but also quite a few less typically played tunes. All transcriptions are based on festival versions of the tunes, meaning the versions are those most commonly encountered at jams andfestivals. The book includes a clearly written description of old time style focusingon default bowing systems designed to develop rhythmic bowing. Ideaspresented include Nashville shuffle, 3-1 bowing, bow rocking, ghost bows, anticipations, left-hand ornamentation, drones, chording, dissonances, altered tunings, the concept of swing, tips on learning by ear and more. The tunes are played three times each for nearly 150 minutes of recording: (1.) very slowly and simply; (2.) at a modest tempo and but with double-stops, dronesand other ornaments; and (3.) up-to-tempo. While this effort was designed for fiddlers, the recordings should serve as an excellent source for non-fiddlers at all levels who desire to build their repertoire and practice learning tunes by ear. The book and accompanying MP3 disc are appropriate for any level of player. Thedifficulty of the tunes ranges from simple to relatively complex. Similarly, thebowing techniques include the simplest ideas to relatively difficult. The three recorded speeds make the learning and processing of the tunes appropriate for all levels of players wishing to improve their ear training. and bull; Simple and highly accessible transcriptions with detailed bowings of 35 estival versions of Appalachian fiddle tunes and bull; All tunes are recorded three times to accommodate players at all levels of experience and bull; Includes comprehensive and practical discussion of old-time bowings and style and how to learn by ear and bull; Strong focus on developing default bowings to get the characteristic groove of old-time and bull; Designed for all levels of players and non-fiddlers who desire to improve their learning by ear and/or increase their repertoire

Author : KEN PERLMAN
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610655224

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Fiddle Music of Prince Edward Island by KEN PERLMAN Pdf

Over 425 reels, jigs, set-tunes, waltzes, marches, strathspeys, and airs transcribed from the playing of traditional fiddlers make this a must have title

Author : DREW BEISSWENGER
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610653190

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Ozarks Fiddle Music by DREW BEISSWENGER Pdf

This book, which includes 308 tune transcriptions, is organized around individual fiddlers who typically combine Appalachian-style fiddling with rags, pop standards, Midwest-style fiddling and sometimes a touch of Western swing to create a style often identifiable as Ozarks. Thirty Ozarks fiddlers and their lives are highlighted with biographical sketches, photographs, and tune histories. Another 50 great Ozarks fiddlers are presented in a similar manner but with less detail. the book and accompanying CD (with 37 tunes, many recorded in the field) emphasize the older fiddling traditions connected to the square dances and community events more than those connected to bluegrass music and modern contest fiddling. Some of the tunes in the collection are old standbys such as Bile Them Cabbage while others such as Finley Creek Blues are unique to the region.The book is the result of years of work by two respected researchers. Gordon McCann won the prestigious Missouri Arts Award in 2002 for his decades of work documenting, studying, and accompanying Ozarks fiddle music. Drew Beisswenger, a music librarian at Missouri State University with a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology, has published three other works about fiddle music and is known for his strong transcription and analysis skills.

Author : Ken Kolodner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0786686529

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Old-Time Fiddle Style by Ken Kolodner Pdf

Author : Loyal Jones
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813148823

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Minstrel of the Appalachians by Loyal Jones Pdf

It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song" -- his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress -- but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, an annual event that has shaped America's festival movement. Loyal Jones pens a lively biography of a man considered to be Appalachian music royalty. He also includes a "Lunsford Sampler" of ballads, songs, hymns, tales, and anecdotes, plus a discography of his recordings.

Author : Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469666273

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Wayfaring Strangers by Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr Pdf

From the seventeenth through the 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 a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

Author : ROB MACKILLOP
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781619116405

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DADGAD Blues by ROB MACKILLOP Pdf

Rob MacKillop presents 20 wonderful fingerstyle blues arrangements andcompositions in DADGAD tuning. The styles covered in this book include country blues, boogie woogie left-hand piano blues, early jazz blues, gut-bucket blues and modal blues. Great traditional songs are included such as St. James Infirmary Blues, St. Louis Blues, C. C. Rider and more, alongside 15 full-length studies. The book begins with easy arrangements, progressing to intermediate and more advanced ones - in short, these blues studies will improve your technique through playable 12-bar tunes. A wide array of chord and scale fingerings are also provided, including pentatonic minor and major scales, blues scales, diminished arpeggios and scales, 7th chords, whole-tone scales and the super Locrian mode and much more! All the tunes presented have accompanying audio recorded by Rob MacKillop and are available to download

Author : Phil Jamison
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252097324

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Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics by Phil Jamison Pdf

In Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics, old-time musician and flatfoot dancer Philip Jamison journeys into the past and surveys the present to tell the story behind the square dances, step dances, reels, and other forms of dance practiced in southern Appalachia. These distinctive folk dances, Jamison argues, are not the unaltered jigs and reels brought by early British settlers, but hybrids that developed over time by adopting and incorporating elements from other popular forms. He traces the forms from their European, African American, and Native American roots to the modern day. On the way he explores the powerful influence of black culture, showing how practices such as calling dances as well as specific kinds of steps combined with white European forms to create distinctly "American" dances. From cakewalks to clogging, and from the Shoo-fly Swing to the Virginia Reel, Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics reinterprets an essential aspect of Appalachian culture.

Author : Andrew Hamilton Dabczynski,Bob Phillips
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739048589

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Basic Fiddlers Philharmonic Old-Time Fiddle Tunes by Andrew Hamilton Dabczynski,Bob Phillips Pdf

Basic Fiddlers Philharmonic: Old-Time Fiddle Tunes is absolutely perfect for introducing fiddling to your youngest string players. Eleven tunes from the old-time American fiddling tradition are presented first in a simplified, basic" version of the tune printed with note names in the note heads. Following the Philharmonic format, the tune is then presented in an "advanced," but still accessible version of the tune. Several options for simple back-ups and very basic improvisation tips are provided for each instrument. Basic Fiddlers Philharmonic keeps each version on its own staff to avoid confusing young readers and lyrics are included where applicable. The accompaniment audio features recordings of both versions as well as a back-up track for play-along at home or in class. A Federation Festivals 2020-2024 selection."

Author : Gerald Milnes
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813183886

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Play of a Fiddle by Gerald Milnes Pdf

Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and custom, making their own music and dance in celebration of them. Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions. These elements have come together to create a body of music tied more to place and circumstance than to ethnicity. Milnes explores the legacies of the state's best-known performers and musical families. He discusses religious music, balladeering, the influence of black musicians and styles, dancing, banjo and dulcimer traditions, and the importance of old-time music as a cultural pillar of West Virginia life. A musician himself, Milnes has been collecting songs and stories in West Virginia for more than twenty-five years. The result is an enjoyable book filled with anecdotes, local history, and keen observations about musical lives.

Author : Malcolm L. Smith,Edwin Lacy
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476676425

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Appalachian Fiddler Albert Hash by Malcolm L. Smith,Edwin Lacy Pdf

World-class luthier and renowned guitarist Wayne Henderson calls Albert Hash "a real folk hero." A virtuoso fiddler from the Blue Ridge, Hash built more than 300 fiddles in his lifetime, recorded numerous times with a variety of bands and inspired countless instrument makers and musicians in the mountains of rural Southwest Virginia near the North Carolina border. His biography is the story of a resourceful, humble man who dedicated his life to his art, community and Appalachian musical heritage.

Author : Stacy Phillips
Publisher : Oak Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1984-12-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783235445

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Hot Licks For Bluegrass Fiddle by Stacy Phillips Pdf

This book will give the bluegrass fiddler an idea of the wide range of licks that are part of the repertoire. The licks included range from hardcore traditional to jazzy, urban progressive. Laid bare are those sizzling, audience-grabbing riffs that all fiddlers find irresistible. You will find this wealth of material arranged in sections that cover single-string licks, double stops, connecting klicks, kickoffs and tags, licks in upper positions, and even an entire chapter devoted to “Orange Blossom Special.” There are chapters here to interest the advanced player, and valuable introductory chapters on music theory and technique for the novice bluegrasser. To help put the licks in perspective, many are set into typical bluegrass songs and chord progressions. In addition, readers will find frequent reference to the outstanding players of today, such as Vassar Clements, Sam Bush, Kenny Baker, Bobby Hicks, and Kenny Kosek, as well as past masters like Scotty Stoneman and Benny Martin. The soundsheet, which features Mary Laster, includes many of the licks in the book, and demonstrates the finer points of nuance and execution. It is also a helpful supplement to the standard notation in the book.