Fiddle traditions
Subtitle: a musical sampler from the pages of Strings magazine
Publisher: String Letter Pub.; Exclusively distributed by Hal Leonard
Published: 2007
Place of publication: [San Anselmo, Calif.]; Milwaukee, WI
Language: eng
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781423418092
Subjects: Fiddle tunes; Violin -- Methods (Fiddling); Fiddling
Genres: Methods (Fiddling)
Other titles: Strings (San Anselmo, Calif.)
Description: Includes chapters on history, technique, style, tradition, and personalities (collected from the pages of Strings magazine) as well as musical examples, practice suggestions, and resources for further listening and study
Notes: "Twenty five tunes in bluegrass, country, Irish, Cajun, swing, and other traditional styles, including guidance on how to play them."
Table of contents: value: Chapter 1. The reel deal; value: Chapter 2. Bridging the gap between classical and traditional music; value: Chapter 3. Birds of a feather.  The Beaumont rag; value: Chapter 4. Solving technical fiddle riddles. Devil's dream; value: Chapter 5. Bluegrass and double-stops. Take this hammer; value: Chapter 6. Triple play. Glory in the morning meeting house; value: John Ryan's polka; value: Chapter 7. Get your chops down. Cluck old hen; value: Chapter 8. Retunings in American fiddle music. Camp Chase; value: Black mountain rag; value: Cruel Willie; value: Bonaparte's retreat; value: Chapter 9. The exotic world of modal fiddle tunes. Pretty little Indian; value: Abe's retreat; value: Shag poke; value: Chapter 10. Texas hoedown fiddling. Little Joe; value: Chapter 11. Modern Southern fiddling. Fiddler's dream; value: Sugar tree stomp; value: Chapter 12. Baroque to Bluegrass; value: Chapter 13. Cookin' with Cajun spice. Two step de l'anse à paille; value: La valse de bambocheur; value: La valse pénitentiaire; value: Chapter 14. The science of contest fiddling. Tom and Jerry; value: Rose of Sharon; value: Beaumont rag; value: Chapter 15. Unsquare dances. Fast forward; value: Sending the bride to a stranger's house; value: Chapter 16. BeauSoleil's Chanson pour Tommy. Chanson pour Tommy