The Northern Fiddler

The Northern Fiddler
Author :
Publisher : Music Sales Corporation
Total Pages : 256
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0825602939
ISBN-13 : 9780825602931
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Northern Fiddler by : Allen Feldham

The Fiddler of the Northern Lights

The Fiddler of the Northern Lights
Author :
Publisher : Dutton Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 40
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:49015002638931
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fiddler of the Northern Lights by : Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

"Henry and Grandpa go in search of the fiddler whose music makes the Northern Lights dance"--Title page verso.

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish
Author :
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Total Pages : 422
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780826272935
ISBN-13 : 0826272932
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Play Me Something Quick and Devilish by : Howard Wight Marshall

Play Me Something Quick and Devilish explores the heritage of traditional fiddle music in Missouri. Howard Wight Marshall considers the place of homemade music in people’s lives across social and ethnic communities from the late 1700s to the World War I years and into the early 1920s. This exceptionally important and complex period provided the foundations in history and settlement for the evolution of today’s old-time fiddling. Beginning with the French villages on the Mississippi River, Marshall leads us chronologically through the settlement of the state and how these communities established our cultural heritage. Other core populations include the “Old Stock Americans” (primarily Scotch-Irish from Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia), African Americans, German-speaking immigrants, people with American Indian ancestry (focusing on Cherokee families dating from the Trail of Tears in the 1830s), and Irish railroad workers in the post–Civil War period. These are the primary communities whose fiddle and dance traditions came together on the Missouri frontier to cultivate the bounty of old-time fiddling enjoyed today. Marshall also investigates themes in the continuing evolution of fiddle traditions. These themes include the use of the violin in Westward migration, in the Civil War years, and in the railroad boom that changed history. Of course, musical tastes shift over time, and the rise of music literacy in the late Victorian period, as evidenced by the brass band movement and immigrant music teachers in small towns, affected fiddling. The contributions of music publishing as well as the surprising importance of ragtime and early jazz also had profound effects. Much of the old-time fiddlers’ repertory arises not from the inherited reels, jigs, and hornpipes from the British Isles, nor from the waltzes, schottisches, and polkas from the Continent, but from the prolific pens of Tin Pan Alley. Marshall also examines regional styles in Missouri fiddling and comments on the future of this time-honored, and changing, tradition. Documentary in nature, this social history draws on various academic disciplines and oral histories recorded in Marshall’s forty-some years of research and field experience. Historians, music aficionados, and lay people interested in Missouri folk heritage—as well as fiddlers, of course—will find Play Me Something Quick and Devilish an entertaining and enlightening read. With 39 tunes, the enclosed Voyager Records companion CD includes a historic sampler of Missouri fiddlers and styles from 1955 to 2012. A media kit is available here: press.umsystem.edu/pages/PlayMeSomethingQuickandDevilish.aspx

Simon the Fiddler

Simon the Fiddler
Author :
Publisher : HarperCollins
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780062966766
ISBN-13 : 0062966766
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Simon the Fiddler by : Paulette Jiles

The critically acclaimed, bestselling author of News of the World and Enemy Women returns to Texas in this atmospheric story, set at the end of the Civil War, about an itinerant fiddle player, a ragtag band of musicians with whom he travels trying to make a living, and the charming young Irish lass who steals his heart. In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band. Weeks later, on the eve of the Confederate surrender, Simon and his bandmates are called to play for officers and their families from both sides of the conflict. There the quick-thinking, audacious fiddler can’t help but notice the lovely Doris Mary Dillon, an indentured girl from Ireland, who is governess to a Union colonel’s daughter. After the surrender, Simon and Doris go their separate ways. He will travel around Texas seeking fame and fortune as a musician. She must accompany the colonel’s family to finish her three years of service. But Simon cannot forget the fair Irish maiden, and vows that someday he will find her again. Incandescent in its beauty, told in Paulette Jiles’s trademark spare yet lilting style, Simon the Fiddler is a captivating, bittersweet tale of the chances a devoted man will take, and the lengths he will go to fulfill his heart’s yearning. "Jiles’ sparse but lyrical writing is a joy to read. . . . Lose yourself in this entertaining tale.” — Associated Press

The Fiddler's Tune Book

The Fiddler's Tune Book
Author :
Publisher : Alfred Music
Total Pages : 68
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1457446839
ISBN-13 : 9781457446832
Rating : 4/5 (39 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fiddler's Tune Book by : Peter Kennedy

100 traditional airs, hornpipes, jigs, reels, schottisches, polkas, and waltzes for soprano or tenor recorders or tin whistle D.

The Fiddler on Pantico Run

The Fiddler on Pantico Run
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 368
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781451627619
ISBN-13 : 1451627610
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis The Fiddler on Pantico Run by : Joe Mozingo

In this gorgeously written and “vividly fascinating” (Elle) account, a prize-winning journalist digs deep into his ancestry looking for the origins of his unusual last name and discovers that he comes from one of America’s earliest mixed-race families. “My dad’s family was a mystery,” writes journalist Joe Mozingo, having grown up with only rumors about where his father’s family was from—Italy, France, the Basque Country. But when a college professor told the blue-eyed Californian that his family name may have come from sub-Saharan Africa, Mozingo set out on an epic journey to uncover the truth. He soon discovered that all Mozingos in America, including his father’s line, appeared to have descended from a black man named Edward Mozingo who was brought to America as a slave in 1644 and, after winning his freedom twenty-eight years later, became a tenant tobacco farmer, married a white woman, and fathered one of the country’s earliest mixed-race family lineages. Tugging at the buried thread of his origins, Joe Mozingo has unearthed a saga that encompasses the full sweep of America’s history and lays bare the country’s tortured and paradoxical experience with race. Haunting and beautiful, Mozingo’s memoir paints a world where the lines based on color are both illusory and life altering. He traces his family line from the ravages of the slave trade to the mixed-race society of colonial Virginia and through the brutal imposition of racial laws.

Old-Time Fiddle Round Peak Style

Old-Time Fiddle Round Peak Style
Author :
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Total Pages : 129
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781610659543
ISBN-13 : 1610659546
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Old-Time Fiddle Round Peak Style by : Brad Leftwich

Traditional Southern old-time fiddling from the world-renowned Round Peak area of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, focusing on the style and repertoire of master fiddler Tommy Jarrell (1901–1985). Author Brad Leftwich, himself an acclaimed fiddler who learned the music in person from Jarrell, presents detailed, accurate transcriptions of 83 tunes (the bulk of Jarrell's repertoire) both in standard music notation and fiddle tablature, along with interesting anecdotal information relating to each tune. All of the tunes are included on the accompanying CD as transcribed, played solo at a moderate tempo to facilitate learning. Helpful stylistic tips and important background information on the area and the music, along with biographical information on Jarrell and many of the musicians from whom he learned, illustrated with many fascinating old photographs.• Featuring the old-time Round Peak fiddle style and repertoire of Tommy Jarrell• Detailed, accurate transcriptions of 83 tunes in standard notation and tablature• CD including all 83 tunes played solo at moderate tempo• Stylistic tips, photos, and background information on Round Peak music and musicians

The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora

The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora
Author :
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages : 208
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1409419207
ISBN-13 : 9781409419204
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora by : David Cooper

Northern Ireland remains a divided community in which traditional culture is widely understood as a marker of religious affiliation and ethnic identity. David Cooper provides an analysis of the characteristics of traditional music performed in Northern Ireland, as well as an ethnographic and ethnomusicological study of a group of traditional musicians from County Antrim. In particular, he offers a consideration of the cultural dynamics of Northern Ireland with respect to traditional music.

Scottish Fiddlers' Session Tune Book - Volumes 1 & 2

Scottish Fiddlers' Session Tune Book - Volumes 1 & 2
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1871931479
ISBN-13 : 9781871931471
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Scottish Fiddlers' Session Tune Book - Volumes 1 & 2 by : Ho-Ro Gheallaidh

(Music Sales America). This collection is a reflection of the current repertoire of "sessions" in Scotland. Included are the popular tunes of today which stand the test of time. Some of the material is fairly tricky and should offer a challenge to the increasing numbers of excellent fiddlers. Songs include: Fairy Dance * Sleepy Maggie * Ships Are Sailing * The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh * The Wind That Shakes the Barley * Loch Leven Castle * The Apple Tree * Lynne's Reel * The Old Grey Cat * Lord MacDonald * Miss Lyall * Captain Campbell * The Left Handed Fiddler * The North Shore * I Wish You Would Marry Me Now * Gladstone * Itchy Fingers * John Spence of Uyeasound * Jack Broke da Prison Door * The Shetland Fiddler * Da Ferry Reel * The Sally Gardens * The High Reel * The Boys of Malin * The Silver Spire * Sligo Maid * The Earl's Chair * Paddy's Trip to Scotland * King of the Fairies * The Firefly * Fisher's Hornpipe * The Golden Eagle * Lark in the Morning * Trip to Sligo * Traditional Jig * The Rocky Road to Dublin * Kennedy Street March * The Sweetness of Mary * Ashokan Farewell * Mitton's Breakdown * Trip to Windsor * Rory MacLeod * Ally Bally * and more.

The Northern Fiddler

The Northern Fiddler
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 274
Release :
ISBN-10 : IND:39000005970772
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis The Northern Fiddler by : Allen Feldman