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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions (Paperback, Second Edition)
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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions (Paperback, Second Edition)
Series: American Folk Music and Musicians Series
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The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to
world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people
with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument
entered the post-World-War-II Folk Revival with virtually no
written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions tells the
fascinating story of the effort to recover the instrument's lost
history through fieldwork in the Southern mountains, finding of old
instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks. After
reviewing the instrument's distinctive musical features, Ralph Lee
Smith presents the dulcimer's story chronologically, tracing its
roots in a Renaissance German instrument, the scheitholt;
describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in
America; and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer
styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky.
The story continues into the 20th Century, through the final group
of tradition-based Appalachian makers whose work flowed into the
national scene of the Folk Revival. This fully revised edition
provides expanded information about the history of the scheitholt
and the dulcimer before the Civil War and discusses traditions and
types that are still being discovered and documented. Smith also
adds his personal adventures in searching for the dulcimer's
history. A new final chapter describes types and styles that do not
fit conveniently into the mainstream development of the instrument.
The book concludes with several appendixes, including measurements
of representative dulcimers and listings of dulcimer recordings in
the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.
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