Books and Music of the
Mountain Dulcimer Champions
Folk Notes Books & Music

Stephen Seifert - 1st, Mid-East regionals, 97 & 95,OH

Dulcimer Solos

This book contains 20 advanced, bluegrassy versions of standard fiddle tunes. These arrangements represent some of Steve's fanciest playing. Like the Finger Pickin' Good on the previous page, with left-hand fingerings indicated for every note. The accompanying CD includes each arrangement in the book played very slow and up to speed.

$16.00- Dulcimer Solos BCD

Angeline the Baker, Arkansas Traveler, Barlow Knife, Bile Them Cabbage Down, Cherokee Shuffle, Flop-Eared Mule, Fly Around My  Pretty Little Miss, Forked Deer, June Apple, Kitchen Girl, Mississippi Sawyer, Old Joe Clark, Red Wing, Rock the Cradle Joe, Saint Anne’s Reel, Sandy Boys, Soldier’s Joy, Spotted Pony, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Yellow Rose of Texas

Finger Pickin' Good

Favorite hymns and other melodies for finger-picking and arranged for intermediate players.  Lyrics included for most of the songs. Left-hand fingerings indicated for every note. The accompanying CD includes all arrangements from the book played once as well as a short lesson on Steve's finger picking style.

$20.00- Finger Pickin' Good BCD

Amazing Grace, Beach Spring, Beautiful Dreamer, Do You Love an Apple, Dona Nobis Pacem, For the Beauty of the Earth, Home Sweet Home, Jesus Loves Me, Just a Closer Walk With Thee, Just as I Am, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Morning Has Broken, My Old Kentucky Home, O, How I Love Jesus, Old Rosin the Beau, On Top of Old Smoky, Santa Lucia, Sheebeg and Sheemore, Shenandoah, Silent Night, South Wind, Sweet Hour of Prayer, Foggy Dew, The Star-Spangled Banner, This is my Father’s World, Westphalia Waltz, When They Ring the Golden Bells, Wondrous Love


Come Let Us Adore Him by Stephen Seifert

21 favorite Christmas songs arranged for mountain dulcimer. All but one is in DAD. The exception is in DAC. A few songs require a capo. The accompaning CD lets you hear each tune as it is written in the book.

$16.00 - Come Let Us Adore Him BCD

Angels We Have Heard On High, Away In A Manger (High), Away In A Manger (Low), Children Go Where I Send Thee, Deck The Halls, The First Noel, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Go Tell It On The Mountain, Hark The Herald Angels Sing, In The Bleak Midwinter, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, Jingle Bells, Joy To The World, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Come O Come Emmanuel, O Holy Night, O Little Town Of Bethlehem, Silent Night, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, We Three Kings, We Wish You A Merry Christmas, What Child Is This



Steve Seifert Recordings
 
Mountain Dulcimer CD 

1. Old Shady Grove 2. Do You Love an Apple 3. Barlow Knife 4. Chinese Breakdown 5. Rosin the Beau 6. Kitchen Girl 7. Just as I Am

8. Ida Red 9. Arkansas Traveler 10. Foggy Dew 11. Southern Aristocracy 12. Soldier's Joy 13. Savoy Family Waltz 14. The Girl I Left Behind

15. New Shady Grove 16. Home Sweet Home 17. Seneca Square Dance 18. Buffalo Gals 19. Cluck Old Hen 20. Westfork Gals 21. Westfalia Waltz

Steve's first album.  All but two songs feature only one single dulcimer.
 
Mountain Dulcimer CD - $15.00



Mode for Dulcimer

1. Wildwood Flower 2. Precious Memories 3. Cherokee Shuffle 4. (Ghost) Riders in the Sky 5. Tennessee Waltz 6. Happy Land

7. Ground Hog 8. Little Liza Jane 9. Kaw-Liga 10. De Bharr Na GCnoc 11. Banish Misfortune and Boyne Hunt 12. When They Ring Them Golden Bells

13. Arkansas Traveler 14. Camp Meeting on the Fourth of July 15. Baby Elephant Walk 16. Bonaparte Crossing the Rhine 17. Ashokan Farewell 18. Mode for Dulcimer 19. Turkey in the Straw

Steve's second album, accompanied by Emily Eagan, two-time whistling champion, and two songs with
 old-time banjo player, Dave Cannon.
 
Mode for Dulcimer - $15.00


Duets, with Lloyd Wright
More Lloyd Wright on the first Mountain Dulcimer Champions page.

1. Soldier's Joy 2. Coleman's March 3. Nonesuch 4. Bile Them Cabbage Down 5. Bull Of The Wagon

6. Rock The Cradle Joe 7. Old Joe Clark 8. Mississippi Sawyer 9. John Stinson's 10. Seneca Square Dance

11. Borsch Before Breakfast 12. Yellow Rose Of Texas 13. Shepherd's Wife's Waltz 14. Cherokee Shuffle

Steve and Lloyd Wright, #1 MD champ, Walnut Valley Nationals, 2000, exchange riffs,
and swap lead and harmony parts in songs on this CD.

Duets CD - $15.00

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Mark Biggs - 1st, Nationals, Winfield, KS, 1984
 
Complete Dulcimer Handbook by Mark Biggs

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, La Paloma, Blue Mood (M. Biggs), Fugue (for Lute), What if a Day, Wilson's Wilde, Two Renaissance Lute Pieces, Meagan Jayne, Planxty Irwin, Planxty Morgan Magan, Lord Inchiquin, Give Me Your Hand, Maybe You'll Wander
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, Farewell, Abaresque
Aeolian Songs - Black Hag, Shady Grove, Scarborough Fair, Packington's Pound, Greensleeves



Mel Bay's Mountain Dulcimer Book
by Mark Biggs

This book is a collection of traditional folksongs, Irish and American fiddle tunes, adaptations of classical pieces, and original songs in contemporary stylings. Melody lines are in standard notation and tab with suggested chords for accompaniment. There is a section for  players who want to learn how to add chords to a melody line, finding and choosing their own chords, and adding rhythm changes to create their own arrangements.  This book is best suited for players beyond absolute beginner level(novices) to intermediate players.  All but three songs are on the CD. Several different tunings.

 Book and CD - $17.95 Peppermint Stick Rag, Tomorrow Today, Sonya's Song, Wildwood Flower, Old Joe Clark, Nobody Home, The Parting Glass, Winter's Lament to Spring (and Spring's Reply), Farewell and Adieu Ye Fine Spanish Ladies, The Ashgrove, Soldier's Joy, Greensleeves, Lord Lovel, Drill Ye Tarriers Drill, Morning Song, Ramble Away, What Should We Do with the Drunken Sailor, The Lass of Patie's Mill, Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Andante Grazioso (Mozart), Minuet in G (Bach), God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Munga Laten, The Touchstone, The Rakes of Mallow, Old Molly Hare, Star of County Down, Sheebeg Sheemore, Golden-Haired Maid in the Morning  

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Bonnie Carol - 2nd, Nationals, Winfield, KS 1978 & '82

Dulcimer Jam
Favorite Jam Session Tunes for Hammered or Fretted Dulcimer
by Bonnie Carol

Dulcimer Jam takes common and obscure tunes heard in jam sessions and arranges them for hammered dulcimer, mountain dulcimer(with tablature), and other instruments to play in a jam session setting.

Dulcimer Jam - $14.95

SONG: Frére Jacques • Dear Friends, Dear Friends • Joy to the World • On the Carpenter's Porch • Scotland the Brave • Wayfaring Stranger • Amazing Grace • Dona Nobis Pacem • Red Haired Boy • Eight More Miles to Louisville • Golden Slippers • O My Little Darlin' • Greensleeves • The Wee Reel • The Parting Glass • Sí Beag, Sí Mór • Drink to me Only • Dolores Waltz • The Road to Lisdoonvarna • Far Away • King of the Faries • Irish Washerwoman • Dark Island • Bonny Portmore • Westphalia Waltz • Tommy Bhetty's Waltz • Gravel Walks • Inis Oírr • Inishere • Ashokan Farewell • Miss Rowan Davies


Dust Off That Dulcimer & Dance
by Bonnie Carol