Americana - American Favorites & Old Time Music

Americana - American Favorites & Old Time Music
Folk Notes Music Books

The Parlour Dulcimer
by Rosamond Campbell

In the 19th century before popular music began to be spread by recording devices, radio, and other media, there was parlor music. This book is a compilation of popular tunes from that era. Many of the songs are arranged for mountain dulcimer in their original keys, so there are a variety of tunings in this book, including some four string dulcimer arrangements. Advanced beginner and up.
Orignally priced higher, I bought the remaining stock of books and CDs from the author, so the price reflects what I bought these for. When they're gone, "there ain't no more".

The Parlour Dulcimer Book and CD - $16.00

Stephen Foster for Mountain Dulcimer
by Shelley Stevens

Fifty-eight of America’s Troubadour’s finest compositions including lesser and well known Foster songs of the 1800’s. The companion CD contains thirty-three of the tunes in the book. The spiral bound book contains melody line in standard notation with chords and tablature for the mountain dulcimer mostly in DAd tuning (some in DAA and DGd). It is geared for the experienced beginner up to the intermediate/advanced player.

$22.95 - Stephen Foster for Mountain Dulcimer

Angelina Baker, Beautiful Dreamer, Better Times are Coming, Comrades Fill No Glass for Me, De Camptown Races, Dolly Day, Don’t Bet Your Money on De Shanghai, Down Among the Cane Breaks, Ellen Bayne, Fairy Belle, Farewill My Lilly Dear, Gentle Lena Clare, Give the Stranger Happy Cheer, Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread, Glendy Burk, Happy Hours at Home, Hard Times Come Again No More, I’ll Be a Soldier, I’ll Be Home Tomorrow, If You’ve Only Got a Moustache, Irene, Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Jenny June, Jenny’s Coming O’er the Green, Kissing in The Dark, Little Belle Blair, Little Jenny Dow, Lou’siana Belle, Lula is Gone, Maggie By My Side, Mary Loves the Flowers, Merry Merry Month of May, Molly Dear Good Night, Molly Do you Love Me?, My Old Kentucky Home, Nelly and I, Nelly Bly, Nelly was a Lady, Oh! Lemuel, Old Black Joe, Old Dog Tray, Old Folks at Home, Old Memories, Open Thy Lattice Love, Ring De Banjo, Slumber My Darling, Song of All Songs, Summer Longings, Susanna, Sweet Little Maid of the Mountain, That’s What’s the Matter, The Hour for Thee and Me, Tioga Waltz, Under the Willow She’s Sleeping, Virginia Belle, We are Coming Father Abraam 300,000 More, Willie My Brave, Willie We Have Missed You.

Favorite Old Time American Songs
Favorite American Old Time Songs

for Dulcimer by Mark Nelson

This giant book features 116 of America's favorite folk songs, expertly arranged for the Appalachaian dulicmer. Children's songs, work songs, old Anglo-American ballads, songs of strife and freedom, love songs and much, much more are all gathered here in arrangements suitable for the beginning and intermediate player. The songs come from all over - old books and sheet music, transcriptions from field recordings, but mostly from the singing of countless folks in kitchens and festival hallways, street corners and concert stages. Most songs are in DAd and DAA tunings.

Favorite Old Time Songs - $24.95

Acres of Clams
All Are Talking of Utah
All Night, All Day
Alsea Girls
Amazing Grace
America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)
Aura Lee
Barb'ry Allen
Beulah Land
Beware, Of Take Care
Blood Red Roses
Boatman Dance
Bonnie Black Bess
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Camptown Races
Careless Love
Chickens are a-Crowin'
Cindy
Clementine
Cold Rain and Snow
Cripple Creek
Dakota Land
Darling Cory
Dixie
Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
Down in the Valley
Eating Goober Peas
Fennario
Fod
Follow the Drinking Gourd
Frankie and Johnnie
Froggie Went a-Courtin'
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Groundhog
Hallelujah, I'm a Burn
Handsome Molly
Haul Away, Joe
He's Got the Whole World inHis Hands
Hold On

Home on the Range
I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
I'm a Rambler and a Gambler
I'm On My Way
In the Good Old Colony Days
Jack o' Diamonds
Jenny Fair Gentle Rosemarie
Jimmy Crack Corn
John Henry
Kansas Boys
Lady Mary
Let My People Go
Little David, Play on Your Harp
Little Liza Jane
Little Mattie Groves
Little Old Sod Shanty
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
Nearer, My God, To Thee
NobodyKnows the Trouble I'v e Seen
Oh, Can't You Hear That Turtle Dove
Oh, Death
Old Dan Tucker
Old Dog Tray
Old Joe Clark
Omie, Let Your Bangs Hang Down
On Top of Old Smoky
One Morning in May
Pie in the Sky
Polly Wolly Doodle
Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Quit Kickin' My Dog Around
Red River Valley
Rueben and Rachel
Same Old Man
Shady Grove
Shenandoah
Shoo, Fly, Don't Bother Me
Silver Threads Among the Gold
Simple Gifts

Sourwood Mountain
Steal Away
Sweet Betsy From Pike
Tenting Tonight
The Banks of the Ohio
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Buggerboo
The Crawdad Song
The Cuckoo
The Devil's Questions
The Drunken Sailor
The E-Ri-E
The Erie Canal
The Farmer's Curst Wife
The Girl I Left Behind Me
The Glendy Burke
The Greenland Whale Fishery
The King's Daughter Fair
The Lady From York
The Little Brown Bullls
The Riddle Song
The Shantyman's Life
The Sow Took the Measles
The Texas Rangers
The Two Sisters
The Unquiet Grave
The Wagoner's Lad
The Yellow Rose of Texas
The YoungMan Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
There's a Little Wheel a-Turnin'
There's More Pretty Girls Than One
Tom Dooley
Turkey in the Straw
Wedding Dress
When First Unto This Country
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
Whopee Ti Yi Yo
Wonderous Love
Yankee Doodle

Deep Roots
Easy Folk Songs for Mountain Dulcimer
by Helen Johnson

The book includes arrangements of familiar folk songs sequenced according to the level of difficulty. All are in D-A-D tuning and include a strumming pattern in the tablature as well as fingering suggestions. There are also notes in the front of the book pointing out what's new in each song. This book is intended for beginning to early intermediate players, and it should help novice dulcimer players move from just strumming to a combination of strumming and flat picking, greatly enriching their playing. The songs on the CD are in the same sequence as those in the book.

$15.00 - Deep Roots Book & CD

A Hole in the Bucket	Lovely Evening
Beautiful Brown Eyes	Oh, the Horse Went Around
Billy Boy	Old Joe Clark
Blow the Man Down	One More River
Buffalo Gals	The Red River Valley
Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie	Rosin the Beau
Cape Cod Chanty	Sacramento
Clementine	Sail Away, Ladies
Cotton-Eyed Joe	She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
Crawdad Song	Skip to My Lou
Down in the Valley	Streets of Laredo
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton	Sugar Hill
Good-Bye, Old Paint	Sweet Betsy of Pike
I've Been Working on the Railroad	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
Li'l Liza Jane	Yankee Doodle

Songs of the Civil War
by Maureen Sellers
Songs about slavery, abolition, the confederacy, marches, and songs to commemorate the fallen and wounded. Novice level and beyond. All songs are in DAD tuning, some capo required. Standard notation and tablature, lyrics, and chords. Also includes author's notes about each song. 57 pages

Songs of the Civil War - $12.00

Aura Lee
Battle Cry of Freedom
Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Bonnie Blue Flag
Darling Nelly Gray
Dixie
The Girl I Left Behind Me
Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier
Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo)
Lincoln and Liberty
Lorena

Lula Is Gone
Marching Through Georgia
My Old Kentucky Home
Never Forget the Dear Ones
Richmond Is A Hard Road To Travel
Somebody's Darling
The Southern Soldier Boy
Tenting Tonight
The Vacant Chair
Wait for the Wagon
When Johnny Comes Marching Home

Songs and Tunes of the Wilderness Road
by Ralph Lee Smith & Madeline MacNeil

This collection of traditional music for the mountain dulcimer seeks to reunite this beautiful instrument with the music and the world from which it came. It tells the story of the Wilderness Road, a trail through the Appalachian Mountains from Gate City, Virginia, to Fort Boonesboro, Kentucky, blazed by Daniel Boone, and links it to the history and heritage of the mountain dulcimer. Numerous photographs and maps help tell the story, and each tune in the book includes a historical description of its origin. Essential for study of the music and history of the Appalachian Mountains. The sixteen tunes in this book are written in notation and tablature for the standard three-course mountain dulcimer (without the 6 1/2 or 1 1/2 fret in the fretboard), with chord symbols and complete lyrics. A knowledge of simple chording techniques is all that is needed to play the tunes. The tunings used are Ionian (DAA), Aeolian (DAC), and Dorian (DAG).

$14.95 - Songs and Tunes of the Wilderness Road

Cumberland Gap, The Devil's Nine Questions(Child Ballad #1), Sourwood Mountain, Shady Grove, Bold Robing(Child Ballad #140), Old Man in the Mill, The Unquiet Grave(Child Ballad #78), Sailing at High Tide, Three Nights Drunk(Child Ballad #274), When are You Coming to See Me?, The Three Babes(Child Ballad #79), The Coo Coo Bird, The Storms are on the Ocean(Child Ballad #76), Cripple Creek, Sheep Shell Corn by the Rattlin of His Horn, I Gave My Love a Cherry(Child Ballad #46)

Folk Songs of Old Kentucky
by Ralph Lee Smith & Madeline Macneil

This book provides 20 Anglo-American folk songs, field-collected by two remarkable real-life "song catchers," Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman, in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine and Loraine, the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway, composer and arranger, were among the first to search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians. The adventurers traveled hundreds of miles on horseback and on foot through an isolated area to which radios, roads and cars had not yet come. They made friends in lonely log cabins, and transcribed some 200 song treasures, some of which they published in books that are now out of print and rare. This book gives the background of each, and includes accounts of their mountain adventures, published by Josephine and Howard in long-forgotten publications. The second half of the book is a selection of the songs, presented with standard notation, guitar chords, and dulcimer tablature. Seven songs are arranged for both DAD and DAA tunings, four for DAD, three for DAA, and six for the DAC tuning.

$14.95 - Folk Songs of Old Kentucky

Little Sparrow, Barbara Allen, Frog Went a-Courting, As I Walked Out, Sweetheart in the Army, Charming Beauty Bright, John Riley, The Lonesome Scenes of Winter, The Cherry Tree Carol, The Lady and the Glove, The Barnyard Song, Her Cheek is Like Some Blooming Red Rose, Noah's Ark, The Cuckoo,First Version, The Cuckoo,Second Version, Loving Hannah, Fair Nottiman Town, Sourwood Mountain, The Inquisitive Lover, Peggy Walker

This collection of sweet waltzes and lively two-steps presents an exciting new repertoire for mountain dulcimer players, with playing techniques for authentic style. A CD of all the music is included, and the notation and chords in standard keys can also be used for other instruments. This music suits the mountain dulcimer well because it comes from the Cajun accordion, which has the same simple diatonic scale. The easy melodies and chord progressions in this repertoire can be played by less experienced dulcimer players, while the tips on improvisation and embellished versions offer creativity for more experienced players.