Mountain and Hammer Dulcimer
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Favorite Christmas Carols
for the Mountain Dulcimer (and Friends)

"50 intermediate level carols in DAd tuning. The melody line is also suitable for recorder, psaltery, hammered dulcimer, and tim whistle. Chords for guitar and lyrics are included. Notation and tablature is very readable Several carols are in the key of D and G, providing more variability in sound and complementing the use of insgruments such as the violin, recorder, or psaltery. Capo is required on a couple of the tunes."
-- Melody's Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe

SONG LIST:
Angels From the Realms of Glory -- Angels We Have Heard on High -- Away in the Manger -- The Boar's Head Carol -- Bring a Torch Jeanette Isabella -- The Cherry Tree Carol -- Deck the Halls -- Ding Dong, Merrily on High -- The First Noel -- The Friendly Beasts -- Gloucestershire Wassail -- God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen -- Good Christian Men Rejoice -- Good King Wenceslas -- Go, Tell It on the Muontain -- Hark the Herald Angels Sing -- He Is Born -- Here We Come A-Wassailing -- Hey, Ho, Nobody Home -- The Holly and the Ivy -- How Great Our Joy -- Infant Holy -- I Saw Three Ships -- Jingle Bells -- Jolly Old St. Nicholas -- Josef Lieber, Josef Mein -- Joy to the World -- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence -- Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming -- Mary Had a Baby -- My Dancing Day -- O Christmas Tree -- O Come All Ye Faithful -- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel -- Oh, Come, Littlte Children -- O Holy Night -- O Little Town of Bethlehem -- On Christmas Night -- Patapan -- Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow -- The Sans Day Carol -- Silent Night -- Sing We Now of Christmas -- Still, Still, Still -- We Three Kings -- We Wish You a Merry Christmas -- What Child is This? (Greensleeves) -- What Shall I Give to the Child? -- What Wondrous Love Is This?

Favorite Hymns and Gospel Songs
for the Mountain Dulcimer (and Friends)

"50 hymns in DAd tuning, arranged so that the left hand of the player moves as little as possible. Some arrangements are challenging, some are easy. The tablature indicates when a single note should be struck and when to strum the chord all theway across the fretboard to avoid dissonant sounds. A few hymns are written in the keys of D and G. Some harmonics are included, as well as a few duets. Very clear notation and tab, lyrics and shords included."
-- Melody's Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe

SONG LIST:
Amazing Grace -- Be Thou My Vision (duet) -- Blessed Assurance -- Brethren, We Have Met to Worship -- Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy -- Fairest Lord Jesus -- God Leads Us Along -- Grace Greater Then Our Sin -- He Hideth My Soul -- His Eye is on the Sparrow -- How Can I Keep From Singing -- I Am His, and He Is Mine -- I Hear Thy Welcome Voice -- Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise -- I Must Tell Jesus -- In the Garden -- I Saw the Cross of Jesus -- Jesus Loves Me -- Just As I Am -- The Lily of the Valley -- The Little Brown Curch in the Vale -- Lord, I'm Coming Home -- The Love of God -- My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (duet) -- A New Name in Glory -- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Had -- Nothing But the Blood -- Of the Father's Love Begotten -- On Jordan's Stormy Banks -- Pentecostal Power -- Poor Wayfarin' Stranger -- Precious Memories -- Rock of Ages -- Shall We Gather at the River -- Simple Gifts -- Sweet Hour of Prayer -- Swing Low, Sweet Chariot -- There is a Blam in Gilead (duet) -- This is My Father's World -- This Train -- Traveling On -- The Uncloudy Day (duet) -- What a Friend We Have in Jesus -- What Wondrous Love Is This -- When the Morning Comes -- When the Roll is Called Up Yonder -- When the Saints Go Marching In -- Whispering Hope (duet) -- Whiter Than Snow -- Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Tunes and Ballads
for the Mountain Dulcimer (and Friends)

"Here is another beautiful collection from Helen. Clear notation, chords and lyrics included. 50 songs in all."
-- Melody's Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe

SONG LIST:
Annie Laurie -- Ashgrove -- The Banks of the Blue Moselle -- Camptown Races -- Cindy -- Clinch Mountain -- Columbus Stockade Blues -- Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens -- Comin' Thro' the Rye -- Danny Boy -- Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes -- Emily's Tune -- Endearing Young Charms -- Fanny Power -- Fortune -- The Galway Belle (duet) -- Girl I Left Behind Me -- Green Willis -- Hard Times Come Again No More -- Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair -- Lady Mary (duet) -- The Last Rose of Summer -- Listen to the Mocking Bird -- Loch Lomond -- Long, Long Ago -- Lord Inchquin -- The Minstrel Boy -- Mississippi Sawyer -- My Johnny's a Soldier (duet) -- My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night (duet) -- My Wild Irish Rose (duet) -- Nunsense -- Oh! Susanna -- Old Folks at Home (duet) -- Over the Waterfall -- Red Wing -- Road to Lisdoonvarna -- Rosewood Casket -- Saint Anne's Reel -- Sally Gardens -- Shenandoah -- The Shepherd's Wife -- Southwind -- Star of the County Down -- Too-Ra-Loo-Ra--Loo-Ral -- Westphalia Waltz -- The Whistlin' Gypsy Rover (duet) -- The Wild Colonial Boy -- Wildwood Flower -- Will You Come to the Bower?

How Great Thou Art -- Songs to Light the Journey

"Here is a great book of gospel duets or solos for the mountain dulcimer (and friends). It is neatly notated, of intermediate difficulty, for DAd tuning. Each hymn is written as a dulcimer solo and a dulcimer harmony part, with standard music notation at the top and dulcimer tablature underneath. Any melody instrument can also play the standard notation portion. There are 30 hymns in this collection."
-- Melody's Traditional Music and Harp Shoppe

SONG LIST:
Angel Band -- Close to Thee -- Deliverance Will Come -- Drifting Too Far From the Shore -- Farther Along -- God Be With You -- Hold to God's Unchanging Hand -- How Beautiful Heaven Must Be -- How Great Thou Art -- I Canot Find the Way Alone -- I'll Be List'ning -- I'll Fly Away -- I Need Thee Every Hour -- It Is Well With My Soul -- Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me -- Leaning on the Everlasting Arms -- Nearer, my God, to Thee -- The Old Rugged Cross -- Safe in teh Arms of Jesus -- Softly and Tenderly -- Stand by Me -- Sweet Beulah Land -- There's a Land That is Fairer Than Day -- This World Is Not My Home -- 'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus -- Victory in Jesus -- What a Day That Will Be -- Where Could I Go? -- Where the Soul of Man Never Dies -- Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown?

Fiddlin' Around on the Mountain Dulcimer
(with Friends)

"Books designed especially for students who want to learn the tunes they need in order to fully participate in jam sessions are always in demand. Helen Johnson's newest book addresses the need in a collection of nearly fifty jam session standards that should quickly get beginners and intermediate mountain dulcimer players jamming. All of the tunes are in DAd tuning and some require a capo The tunes are presented in standard notation suitable for fiddle, whistle, and hammer dulcimer with accompanying dulcimer tablature."
-- Dulcimer Players News

SONG LIST:
Angelina Baker (duet) -- Arkansas Traveler (duet) -- Beautiful Dreamer (duet) -- Blarney Pilgrim -- Captain O'Kane (duet) -- Cherokee Shuffle (duet) -- Cheyenne Morning (duet) -- Child Grove -- Cold Frosty Morning -- Colonel John Irwin (duet) -- Connaught Man's Rambles (duet) -- Cripple Creek (duet) -- Denis Murphy's Jig (duet) -- Dennis Murphy's Slide -- Down the Brae -- Eighth of January (duet) -- Farewell to Whiskey -- Georgia Railroad -- Hewlett (duet) -- Hunting the Buffalo (duet) -- Jenny Lind Polka (duet) -- John Stenson's No. 2 -- Julia Delaney -- June Apple (duet) -- Lark in the Clear Air -- Liberty -- Maid Behind the Bar -- Midnight on the Water -- Miss McCleod's Reel -- Morrison's Jig -- O'Keefe's Slide (duet) -- Old Dan Tucker -- The Parting Glass -- Ragtime Annie (duet) -- Rights of Man -- The Rose Tree -- Sally Ann Johnson -- Sandy Boys -- Scarborough Fair -- Seneca Square Dance -- Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further in the Fire -- Skye Boat Song -- Turkey in the Straw (duet) -- Undre the Double Eagle -- Wild Mountain Thyme -- Wind That Shakes the Barley -- Yellow Rose of Texas (duet)

Learn to Play the Mountain Dulcimer
Book I

Basic instruction in DAA tuning.

LIST OF TUNES:
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star -- Skip to My Lou -- When the Saints Go Marching In -- Comin' Round the Mountain

Learn to Play the Mountain Dulcimer
Book II

Continued instruction in building chords in DAA tuning, and changing to DAd tuning.

LIST OF TUNES:
Golden Slippers -- Polly Wolly Doodle -- All Through The Night -- Pick a Bale of Cotton -- Sail Away, Ladies -- Sourwood Mountain -- Turkey in the Straw -- Arkansas Traveler

The Spirited Dulcimer

Collection of 28 black spirituals in DAA, DAc, and DAd tunings. Both well-known and obscure titles.

Lullabies
and Other Lilting Melodies

Contents are divided into 3 sections:

1) American and Scottish melodies:
Annie Laurie -- Beautiful Dreamer -- Believe Me -- If All Those Endearing -- Darling Nelly Gray -- Hard Times Come Again No More -- In The Good Old Summertime -- My Old Kenntucky Home -- Wild Mountain Thyme -- Old Folks At Home

2) Classical melodies:
Andante -- Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring -- Peer Gynt Suite, Serenade -- Traumeri

3) Lullabies:
All The Pretty Horses -- The Cradle Song -- I Will Sing A Lullaby -- Oh, How Lovely Is The Evening -- Rock-a bye Baby -- Slumber Song -- Still, Still, Still

Dulcimer A La Mode

Explanation and song selections in 4 popular modes for the dulcimer in DAA, DAc, DAd, and DAg tunings.

Night Cap

American and Celtic traditional tunes featuring Lorinda Jones as a multi-instrumentalist with help from her friends for a touch of bluegrass and Celtic.

A Midwinter's Feast

Recorded with the group, 'Just By Chance', a collection of Christmas and seasonal tunes from France, England, Ireland and America.

Another Winter Feast

A delightful and lighthearted collection of Renaissance Christmas arrangements.

Like their first recording, "A Midwinter's Feast", this collection of Renaissance Christmas music was inspired by their annual performances at the Mid-Winter Feaste, a madrigal dinner production by the Bardstown Community Theatre. In this recording, Lorinda plays folk harp, along with Larry Green on fiddle and mandolin, Bruce Adair on classical guitar, Fred Rucker on recorders, and Rob Smith on mandolin and cello.

The selections represent traditional tunes from the English, French, Spanish, Irish, and Welsh as far back as the 11th century. Some of the tunes like Deck The Halls, Here We Come A-Wassailing, and Pat A Pan, are in current Christmas repertoire today. Others like To Drive The Cold Winter Away and Shepherd, Awake, sadly have slipped away from present play. These, and the others, are beautiful melodies that express the sentiments of the Christmas season.

Song List:
Here We Come A-Wassailing -- To Drive the Cold Winter Away -- Holly and the Ivy -- Shepherd, Awake -- Fum, Fum, Fum -- Pat a Pan -- Wexford Carol -- Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day -- Deck the Halls -- Whence Comes This Rush of Wings? -- Masters in This Hall -- Sussex Mummers Carol

Cottages and Castles

A collection of songs and dances from Ireland and Scotland recorded by Lorinda and 'Just by Chance', featuring the beautiful arrangements that feature a variety of string and wind instruments.

No Shadows

"No Shadows" is Lorinda's first CD recording in which the mountain dulcimer is the featured instrument on each track, showing her versatility as a player and arranger.

Song List:
There is a Fountain -- Turkey in the Straw -- Holy Manna -- Harvest Home -- Farewell to Whiskey/George Brabazon -- Wayfaring Strainger/Shady Grove/Cluck Old Hen -- Lonesome Valley -- Hewlett -- Dawning of the Day/Minstrel Boy -- Barlowe Knife -- The Girl I Left Behind Me -- Bound for the Promised Land -- Off She Goes -- The Old Spinning Wheel -- How Firm a Foundation/There is a Balm in Gilead -- The Last Rose of Summer

"Her execution is really clean and the dulcimer is up front on each track. Interesting arrangements and a very relaxing & beautiful recording that is a great addition to anyone's dulcimer CD collection."
--Kerry Coates, Gila Mountain Dulcimers

Kentucky Standard Band has two CDs out now - currently working on a third.

Both have received almost constant rotation airplay on Echoes (a late-night national NPR radio show out of Pennsylvania that covers the country). Robert conrad of NPR Weekend Radio out of Cleveland has featured one of the CDs (Angels of Mercy) two times and the band has been used as background music for NPR Morning Edition numerous times. Their combined sounds of dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, violin and fingerstyle guitar coupled with all original material has their Classical Folk music sound in a category all it's own.

"Kerry, I appreciate you letting folks know about independant artists. Let me know if you need any other information on the CDs.
Thanks,"
Nancy Johnson Barker

The Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club

The Knoxville Area Dulcimer Club's new CD is hot off the presses. Appalachian and hammered dulcimers are joined with banjimer, guitar, autoharp, banjo, string bass, mandolin, bowed psaltery, harmonica, omnichord, penny whistle, jews harp, and spoons to create a unique sound that is pure mountain soul. You will find a nice mix of your favorite old tunes and original melodies.

SONG LIST:
Black Mountain Rag -- Eileen O'Carol -- Cherokee Shuffle -- Katiedid -- Hard Times -- June Apple/Angeline the Baker -- A Little "Bit" of Jenny's Waltz -- Old Joe Clark -- Old Joe Clark Has the Blues -- Mountain Ivy -- Greensleeves -- Mississippi Sawyer -- Piney Forks Waltz/The Fiddler Has Played His Last Tune for the Night -- Heartbeat -- Southwind -- The Ashgrove -- The Boatman -- Wildwood Flower -- John Stinson's #2 -- I'll Fly Away -- Simple Gifts

Homespun Dulcimer

GOSPEL MUSIC CD

Recently Recorded
Dulcimer Music - No other instruments
Family and friends give raving reviews!

SONG LIST:
Come Thou Fount -- In The Garden -- Sweet By And By -- I'll Fly Away -- What A Fellowship -- Amazing Grace -- Wayfaring Stranger -- Unclouded Day -- I Saw The Light -- Will The Circle Be Unbroken -- Where The Roses Never Fade -- Walk To Emmaus -- Old Time Religion -- Saints Go Marching In -- Bound For The Promised Land -- What A Friend

Speak a Little Louder Please

"The quiet creek that flows through the farm we call Wellynbridge has never ceased to soothe us through innunerable crossings and has sculpted our lives in ways beyond telling. Our music speaks of the many years we've watched our children, and now their children, grow in the freedom of this land. Our favorite songs are these that offer us a brief time of pleasure as we listen, then immerse us in ever widening ripples of contemplation. This feeling has guided us in selecting the traditional, original, contemporary and Gospel music for this album."
-- CarolLynn & Gene Langley

Tunes for Two or More Volume I

Book of duet arrangements by Beth Lassi and Nina Zanetti.
"Tunes for Two or More" is a collection of 15 common and not so common tunes arranged primarily as duets for intermediate and advanced mountain dulcimer players.  The book also includes some multi-level arrangements for several parts.  Buy two so you and your playing partner can each have one!  Add $2 for shipping/handling.

Song List:
Folk Song -- Nearer My God To Thee -- Fa La Nana, Bambin -- Home Sweet Home -- Tom Kane's Reel -- Trumpet Tune -- Plaisir D'Amore -- The Ashgrove -- Loch Lomond -- Little Brown Jug -- Autumn -- Greensleeves -- Kean O'Hara -- Angels We Have Heard On High -- Bonnie Doon

Tunes for Two or More Volume II

A second book of duets and multipart arrangements by Beth Lassi and Nina Zanetti.
Volume II is a collection of 19 tunes arranged primarily as duets for two mountain dulcimer players.  The arrangements range from novice to intermediate in difficulty, and a few include multiple parts for players with varying levels of experience.  All arrangements are in DAD tuning.

Song List:
Amazing Grace -- Lightly Row -- Aura Lee -- Ode To Joy -- Sweet Betsy From Pike -- Daisy, Daisy -- Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes -- Planxty Irwin -- Linstead Market -- Come Thou Fount Of Every Blessing -- Shall We Gather At The River -- Thine's All The Glory -- Harvest Home -- Suo Gan -- The Water Is Wide -- Golden Slumbers -- All Through The Night -- Dorset 4-Hand Reel -- Shule Aroon (Johnny's Gone for Soldier)

Accompaniment Styles & Techniques
for the Mountain Dulcimer

Ionian tuning, covers strumming patterns, finger picking

Learn the Mountain Dulcimer

Covers ionian tuning, several strumming patterns, developing chords.