Great Fiddling Tunes - Beautiful American Airs & Ballads

Description:

Beautiful American Airs & Ballads is a collection of 23 traditional American melodies that are particularly suited to being played on the fiddle. These are heartfelt tunes from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War eras along with Appalachian love songs and gems from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The arrangements include stylistic “fiddle” phrasing and variations. Each of the tunes includes the fiddle melody with guitar accompaniment. Includes access to online audio.
Table of Contents:

• When You and I Were Young, Maggie
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Weeping, Sad and Lonely
• Wayfaring Stranger
• To a Wild Rose
• Simple Gifts
• Shiloh’s Hill
• Shenandoah
• Shady Grove
• Old Fashioned Love
• My Old Kentucky Home
• Lorena
• The Lonesome Dove
• Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
• Jefferson and Liberty
• Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair
• I’ll Be All Smiles Tonight
• I Never Will Marry
• Hard Times, Come Again No More
• Darling Nelly Gray
• Black is the Color of My True Love’s Hair
• Beautiful Dreamer
• Aura Lee

Catalog:	30813M
Publisher:	Mel Bay
Composer:
Arranger:	Craig Duncan
Voicing:	Fiddle