Scandinavian Fiddle Tunes is a collection of 73 arrangements for violin of traditional tunes from Sweden, Finland and Norway. Scandinavian traditional music specialist and folk fiddler Vicki Swan provides notes on the history of the music, as well as playing techniques and styles.The volume is accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes performed by Vicki Swan. German and French translations…

Par STEWART CRANFORD PAUL. This book celebrates the vibrant musical culture of Cape Breton Island. It gives a refreshing glimpse into a rooted, community-based, living tradition. Fiddle tunes from more than seventy-five contemporary composers are presented together with Scottish and Cape Breton music from earlier centuries. Compiled as a part of Cranford Publications Cape Breton Musical Heritage S…

Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles. Par DUNCAN CRAIG. Beautiful Airs and Ballads of the British Isles is a collection of 29 traditional Irish, Scottish and English melodies that are particularly suited to being played on the fiddle. Traditional fiddle airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. …

Par BENNETT STEPHEN. In what is neither an instructional nor a concert-style format, acoustic guitar master and acknowledged harp guitar pioneer Stephen Bennett plays ten captivating harp guitar solos, demonstrating the capabilities of this rarely heard instrument in a relaxed recording studio setting. With one exception, the traditional fiddle tune Westphalia Waltz, Stephen composed all of the mu…

Over 150 contemporary tunes written by 100 female composers from Britain and Ireland. Par TICKELL KATHRYN (Arr.). Folk Tunes from the Women, is a tune book like no other! This is a bumper book of over 150 contemporary tunes from 100 composers from Britain and Ireland, all from different areas, traditions and backgrounds and has been curated by the Northumbrian piper and fiddle player Kathryn Ticke…

Mel Bay's Complete Fiddling Book is a compilation of arrangements of traditional tunes by several outstanding practitioners of the art of fiddle playing: Craig Duncan, Bill Guest, Dave Reiner, Frank Zucco, and Joe Castle. From The Arkansas Traveler to The Yellow Rose of Texas, over 300 colorful fiddle tunes populated this book's 205 pages. Scant on text or historical notes, but long on musical con…

Par DUNCAN CRAIG. This book presents a general survey of American fiddling. The author's intent is to teach the basics of fiddling by beginning with essential bowings and fingerings, and progressing from simple to more complex renditions of tunes. As fiddling is an aural tradition and fiddlers from different parts of the country play a given tune in many ways, tunes included in this book are offer…

Playing And Arranging Reels, Jigs And Airs For Fingerstyle Guitar. Composed by Doug Young. Book and online audio. 72 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc