Books
and Arrangements by Peggy
Carter
*NEW*
Arrangements For Standard MDs with parts for Ginger or Pony MDs and
Baritone MDs!
*NEW*Sheet
Music Collections Arranged by Theme and Player Level
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la carte for $2 per page. Special discounts with multiple titles.
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Custom
Arrangements & Ensemble Books with parts written for a variety of
instruments, choose sheet music from any list
on this page or request something special!
To order books and recieve
order total including shipping fee, please email Peggy at
haams@comcast.net
New
opportunity! Order your tunes a
la carte. Enjoy a
la carte ensemble arrangements for $8 and up. Each arrangement include
a Director's Score and a packet of individual parts for up
to 6 acoustic instruments. Parts are available for violin (fiddle);
flute, hammer dulcimer, Mt. dulcimer, folk harp, autoharp and guitar.
Email Peggy for a list
of available arrangements. Some have parts for viola, cello, bass and
clarinet. Peggy will write a Custom arrangement for other
tunes you select, and prices are based on the complexity and length
of the arrangement.
Books
For Hammer Dulcimer:
*NEW Revised
Version!
"Hammer Hands" - 55 pages - $15
12 Intermediate
Lessons For Hammer Dulcimer to learn technique, style,
embellishments and theory. 47 tunes and 9 pages of theory &
technique to help you become more musical and learn skills and
arrangements for performing (and competing).
Contents:
Amazing
Grace - American Folk Hymn
Black Them Boots - American Fiddle Tune
Boil That Cabbage - Mountain Dance Tune
Bonapart's Retreat - Old Fiddle Tune
Brother John - French Children's Song
Cindy - American Play-Party Song
Cotton Eyed Joe - Texas Dance Tune
Down In The Valley - English Folk Song
Foxhunters Jig - Irish Slip Jig
Go Tell Aunt Rhody - American Childrens Song
Goin' To Boston - New England Dance Tune
Good Bye Liza Jane - Mountain Dance Tune
Hobart's Transportation - American Fiddle Tune
Jazzy
Jingle Bells - Peggy Carter's Jazzy Arrangement
Jessica Waltz - Northumbrian Waltz
John Ryan's Polka - Irish Polka |
Maggie - Victorian
Parlor Song
Margaret's Waltz - Old Waltz
My Shepherd - Irish Hymn
My Wild Irish Rose - Irish Love Song
Nightengale - Very
Old French Aire
O Suzanna - Stephen
Foster
Old Dan Tucker - North Carolina Dance Tune
Old Folks At Home - Stephen Foster
Old Joe Clark- American Fiddle Tune
Over The Waterfall - New England Dance Tune
President Garfield's Hornpipe - American Fiddle Tune
Ragtime Annie - American Fiddle Tune
Red River Valley - American Folk Song
Red Wing - Old American Ballad
Regan's Jig - Irish Jig
Rivers of Texas - Texas Folk Song
Road To Lisdoonvarna - Irish Jig
Sally Ann - Mountain Dance Tune
Thompson's Jig - Irish Jig
Tura Lura Lura - Irish Lullaby
Uncle Joe - Irish Reel
Unclouded Day - American Gospel Song
Wayfaring Stranger - Early American Hymn
Will The Circle B e Unbroken - American Gospel Song
Yellow Bird - Calypso Song |
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*NEW Revised Version!
"Come Dance And Sing" - 94 pages - $20
A collection of 62
tunes, and 12 pages of technique-building exercizes for Beginning
and Advancing hammer dulcimer players. Each tune has suggestions
for embellishing, and performance suggestions. There are 5
teaching sections which each use 10 or more tunes to teach the
particular skill ton which the section is focused.
Part I - Melodic Embellishments
Part II - Embellishing With Chords
Part III - Skills For Performing
Part IV - Playing Reels and Jigs
Part V - Playing Arrangements
Check out the index.... you'll find a lot of tunes that you
haven't seen before.
A Fig For A
Kiss - Irish Slip Jig
Abbots Bromley Horn Dance - Medieval Round Dance
Amazing Grace - American Folk Hymn
Black Mountain Rag - American Fiddle Tune
Blow The Wind Southerly - Irish Aire
Boy In The Gap - Irish Hornpipe
Brian Boru's March - A dramatic Irish march tune made popular by
the Chieftans
Carter Creek Fiddlin' - Two original fiddle tunes by Peggy Carter
Cold Frosty Morn - Irish Reel
Come Dance and Sing - Irish Jig
Congress Reel - Irish Reel
Dark Island - Scottish Aire
Drowsy Maggie - Irish Jig
Flop Eared Mule - American Fiddle Tune
The Flower Of Them All - A Northumbrian tune
Flowers In The Wildwood - by Albert Brumley
Foxhunters Jig - Irish Slipjig
Galacian Waltz - Welsh Traditional Waltz
Give Me Your Hand - Irish Waltz
Goddess - Northumbrian Tune
Goodby Liza Jane - American Mountain Tune
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Hanukkah - Hebrew
Seasonal Dance
Holy Manna - American Gospel Song
How Can I Keep From Singing - American Folk Hymn
John Ryan's Polka -
Irish Polka
John Stinson # 2 - Irish Reel
Julie Ann Johnson - American Fiddle Tune
June Apple - New England Contradance Tune
Loch Lomond - Scottish March
Maggie - A Victorian Fireside song
Mississippi Sawyer - American Fiddle Tune
Morrison's Jig - Irish Jig
O'Carolan's Draught - by Turlough O'Carolan
Off We Go - Irish Jig
Old Joe Clark - American Fiddle Tune
On Christmas Night - English Christmas Carol
Over The Sea To Skye - Scottish Aire
Over The Waterfall - New England Contradance Tune
Pat de Budgie - Jig of unknown origin
Pear Tree - North Carolina Dance Tune
Planxty George Brabazon - Turlough O'Carolan
Regan's Jig - Irish Jig
Rodney's Glory - Captain Francis O'Neil
Rose of Sharon Waltz - Irish Waltz
Sing We Now of Christmas - French Carol
Soldiers' Joy - Fiddle Tune of ancient origin
Southwind - Irish Waltz
Saint Denis - Welsh Hymn
Star Of Hope - Christmas Tune by Peggy Carter
Swallow Tail Jig - Irish Jig
Thompson's Jig - Irish Jig
Welsh Jig - Welsh Jig
Wesphalia Waltz - German Origin
Wexford Carol - Irish Carol
When They Ring Those Golden Bells -Old Hymn
Whiskey Before Breakfast - Fiddle Tune
White Cockade - Scottish Dance Tune
Wild Mountain Thyme - Irish Aire |
Playing
the Hammer Dulcimer FROM SQUARE ONE
 $15
Nine
Lessons by Peggy Carter to start you on your journey! A sequencial
approach to learning to read music, visualizing patterns, techniques
for hammering, music theory AND some good basic tunes with embellishments.
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Here are the lessons:
First Steps in Reading Music,
Understanding Rhythm
Rhythm For Marching and Waltzing
Learn "Instant Harmony" With Intervals,
Huckleberry Rhythms,
Patterns "In The Box"
Fill In The Gaps With Rhythm and Drones
Beyond Melody |
Here are the tunes:
Black Mountain Rag, Black Them Boots, Buffalo Gals
Camptown Races, Columbus Stockade, Come Thou Fount
Cotton Eyed Joe, Cripple Creek, Gray Cat
Green Grow The Rushes-O, June Apple, Liberty
Liza Jane, Mamma Don't 'Low, Ode To Joy, Old Joe Clark, Red Wing
Rose of Sharon Waltz, Skip To My Lou, Spotted Pony
Star of Hope, Whiskey Before Breakfast, The White Cockade
Wildwood Flower, You Are My Sunshine |
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"Keep On Hammering"… $15
Advancing Workshops For Intermediate Hammer Dulcimer Players
12 Sessions (or Lessons) to learn Techniques, Hammering Patterns,
and Embellishments
The Techniques:
Scales and Arpeggios in D & G
Minor and Modal Scales and Arpeggios
Diamond Shaped Chords
Jig Exercizes
Reel Exercizes
Rx For Lazy Left Hand
Balalaika Tremelo
Embellishment Ideas:
Drones
Upper & Lower Neighbors
2-Note Chords
Arpeggios
String Bending
3-Note Chords
Using Diamond-Shaped Chords
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The Tunes:
After The Ball
Angel Band
Angelina Baker
Blackberry Blossom
Cluck Ol' Hen
Coventry Carol
Down To The River To Pray
Drinking Song
Four Russian tunes
Golden Slippers
Harvest Home
Holy Manna
How Can I Keep From Singing
Johnny's Gone To France
Korobuska
Little Brown Jug
Lladaw
Sally Ann
Scotland The Brave
Shenandoah
Single Footin' Horse
Slumber My Darling
Star Of The County Down
Trippin' Up The Escalator
Troika
White Cockade, The
Willow Tree |
Custom
Arrangements & Ensemble Music Books
For custom
arrangements, look at the complete list of tunes and choose the tunes
you want for your custom made music packet.
Email
Peggy with the title, and indicate that you want a hammer dulcimer
arrangement, or Mt. dulcimer arrangement. 10 tunes for $15; 20 tunes
for $25; 30 tunes for $30; plus $2.95 s/h.
String
Ensemble Arrangements: $8 and up + s/h
These
arrangements are available - with up to six parts for $8 ea. and up + s/h. Each
arrangement includes a director's score plus parts for Mt. Dulcimer,
Hammer Dulcimer, violin (fiddle) and flute with chord indications for
guitar, mandolin and autoharp. Some have guitar tablature for guitar
lead. Many arrangements include separate parts for harp and/or cello,
and one even has parts for a string ensemble plus a clarinet. Some have
harmony parts that can be inter-changed within the group. (Two
additional parts for $2.)
O'Carolan Tunes
Hewlett
Shebheg Shemohr
Planxty George Brabizon
Planxty Fanny Power
O'Carolan's Draught
Irish
& Scottish Tunes
A Fig For A Kiss
Brian Boru's March
Congress Reel
Dark Island
Down In The Sally Gardens
Fox Hunters Jig
Give Me Your Hand
Green Grow The Rushes-O
Gypsy Rover
John Ryan's Polka
Loch Lomond
My Wild Irish Rose
Over The Sea To Skye
Road To Lisdoonvarna
Rose Of Sharon Waltz
Star of the County Down
Tura Lura Lura
American Tunes
Cold Frosty Morn
Carter Creek Fiddlin (Original by PC)
Flop Eared Mule
Foundation
He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
Hobart's Transformation
In The Highways And The Hedges
Jamie Allen
John Stinson #2
Little Brown Jug
Lonely Dove
Lonesome Valley
Pisgah
Walk In Jerusalem
Way Down Upon The Swanee River (Unique Chords) |
Calypso Arrangements
Mary's Boy Child
Sit On A Tree Stump (Half-price with any other Calypso Arr.)
Water Come 'a Me Eye
Yellow Bird
Around-The - World
Bohemian Easter Song
Chahukkah Medley
Chinese Rocking Song
Czech Bell Carol
Four Russian Tunes
Greek Medley
Greensleeves
Ukranian Bell Song
Christmas:
Angels We Have Heard On High
A La Nanita, Nana
Canso' Del Nadal
Christmas Ice Stars
Coventry Carol (A very unique arr.)
Czech Bell Carol
Don Oice Ud Im Bithil (MD solo w. acc.)
Huron Carol
Il Est Ne, le Divin Enfant
In The Bleak Midwinter
Jazzy Jingle Bells (You'll love this one!)
Noel Nouvelet
On Christmas Night (w. harp & flute)
Silent Night (Unique chords)
Star Of Hope (Original by PC)
Three Lively Carols (inc. Harp & flute parts)
Wexford Carol
What Child Is This |
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Peggy's
Ensemble arrangements are being played by groups from coast to coast,
and have been used by several ensembles for their recording projects.
Listed below are Two New Books For Acoustic Ensemble, but if you don't
find the titles you'd like to use with your ensemble, Email Peggy for
a complete list of tunes she has ready. These arrangements, include
a Director's Score and a packet of individual parts. Parts are available
for violin (fiddle); flute, hammer dulcimer, Mt. dulcimer, folk harp,
autoharp and guitar. Some have parts for viola, cello, bass and clarinet.
[Just let her know which instrumental parts you need.] Most are priced
at $8 per arrangement, for 6 "extracted" parts. Because of complexity
or additional parts, some are priced a little higher. Now you can have
an arrangement written and customized for your own ensemble. Peggy Will
Write a Custom arrangement for other tunes you select, and prices are
based on the complexity and length of the arrangement. *Here are
the new ensemble books:
| *"Christmas
Joy" $15 Arranged
with individual parts for violin, flute, hammer dulcimer, Mt. dulcimer,
autoharp, folk harp, and guitar |
Songs: Bring
A Torch Jeanette Isabella, Chinese Rocking Song (Christmas Ice Stars),
He Is Born, I Saw Three Ships, Shao Bao Bao, Silent Night . |
A
Dulcimer Christmas: $15
All arrangements can be played as solo for hammer dulcimer or Mt.
dulcimer,
or as duets or trios with both hammer dulcimer and/or Mt. dulcimer.
Every
arrangements has chords for guitar or autoharp accompaniment. Since
every
arrangement is written with standard notation, all have a melody
line, and some have a harmony part that can be played by flute or
violin. |
Chinese
Rocking Song
Ding Dong, Merrily On High
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
Good King Wenceslaus
Hanukkah
Hark The Herald Angels
He Is Born
I Saw Three Ships
I Wonder As I Wander
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In
The Bleak Midwinter
Infant Holy
Joy To The World
Marching Song Of The Shepherds
Ode To Joy
On Christmas Night
Sing We Now Of christmas
The First Noel
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
What Child Is This? |
Books For Mountain Dulcimer
**Coming Soon** NEW MD instruction book!
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Jammin'
Up a Storm $20 The top jam tunes played all across
the country, arranged by level of difficulty. Helps you decide which
tunes to learn first. |
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Amazing Grace, Angel Band, Angelina Baker, Babylon Is Fallen, Black
Mt. Rag, Blackberry Blossom, Boil That Cabbage, Boy In The Gap, Camptown Races, Carter Creek Stomp, Cherokee Shuffle, Cindy, Cluck
Ol' Hen, Cold Frosty Morn, Columbus Stockade, Congress Reel, Cotton
Eyed Joe, Cripple Creek, Flop Eared Mule, Golden Slippers, Gray
Cat ,Hanged Man's Reel ,Harvest Home, Hobart's Transformation, I
Will Bow, Jammin' Up A Storm, Jessica , John Ryan's Polka, John
Stinson No. 2, John Tremain's Reel, Julie Ann Johnson, June Apple,
Keel Row, Keep On The Sunny Side, Liberty, Little Brown Jug, Liza
Jane, Margaret's Waltz, Miss McCloud's Reel, Mississippi Sawyer,
O Suzanna, Old Joe Clark, Over The Waterfall, Pear Tree, Ragtime
Annie, Red Wing, Scotland The Brave, Si Bheag, Si Mhor, Single Footin'
Horse, Soldiers' Joy, Southwind, Spotted Pony ,Uncle Joe, Unclouded
Day, Wayfaring Stranger, Welsh Jig, Wesphalia Waltz, Whiskey Before
Breakfast, Wildwood Flower, Will The Circle Be Unbroken. |
Mtn Dulcimer Favorites $15
BRAND NEW!
All tunes written in standard notation with Mt. Dulcimer tablature
and
chords for autoharp or guitar. Arrangements are suitable for solo
Hammer
Dulcimer or Mt. Dulcimer, or for a variety of ensemble settings.
Title
Tuning Technique Page
Arkansas Traveler DAD Strumming 14
Babylon Is Fallen DAA/DAD Cross Picking 12
Birmingham Jail DAD Strumming 03
Black Is The Color DAC Cross Picking 05
Black Them Boots DAD Strumming 02
Cluck, Ol’ Hen DAC String Bending 06
Fairy Waltz DAD w. capo Strumming 10
Give Me Your Hand DAD Finger Picking 30
Good By, Liza Jane DGD Strumming 08
How Can I Keep From Singing DAD Finger Picking 29
I Will Bow DAA/DAD Strumming 01
Jack Fish (The) DAD w. capo Strumming 09
Maggie DGD Strum w. chords 24
My Wild Irish Rose DAD Strum w. chords 25
Rank Strangers DAD Cross Picking 18
Scarborough Fair DAC Cross Picking 23
Shady Grove DAD w. capo Hammer-on/pull-off 27
Sing We Now Of Christmas DAC Strumming 07
Tura Lura Lura DAD Cross Picking 15
Turkey In The Straw DAD Strumming 17
Walk In Jerusalem DAD Strumming 21
Mt. Dulcimer Favorites |
Mt. Dulcimer
Tuning Chart (For DAA, DAD, DGD and DAC)
Blackberry Blossom
Buffalo Gals
Carter Creek Stomp
Cluck, Ol' Hen
Down To The River To Pray
Golden Slippers
Good By, Liza Jane
Jack Fish
Jessica Waltz
Julie Ann JohnsonLiberty
Maggie
My Wild
Irish Rose |
O Suzanna
Red Wing
Rivers Of Texas
Scotland The Brave
Silent Night
Southwind
Spotted Pony
Star Of The County Down
Uncle Joe
Unclouded Day
Wayfaring Stranger
Wesphalia Waltz
Will The Circle Be Unbroken |
Dynamic Dulcimer Vol. 1
- $10
The First 6 Lessons for Mt. Dulcimer: How to tune,
how to strum, how to fret. Exercises to build technique... and a
little music theory... plus tunes to play alone and tunes to play
with others. A total of 27 pages of tunes, plus valuable
instructions, scales and exercises. These lessons come in a packet
with loose-leaf sheets to add to your own DYNAMIC DULCIMER binder.
You can "file" the instruction pages, and keep the tunes! |
Dynamic Dulcimer
Vol. 2, Beginner Too
$10
The
Next 6 Lessons in DAD.
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Lesson One
- Getting Started p.4
The Mt. Dulcimer —Learn
about your dulcimer
Understand Dulcimer Tablature
Tuning Chart For DAA, DAD, DGD & DAC
Getting Started in DAD — Theory, Fretting,
Strumming, Diatonic Scales
Rhythm For Marching; Walts Rhythm — Strumming, Fretting
He’s
Got The Whole World — Pick-up beat
What’ll
I Do with The Baby-O? — Strumming
Lesson Two
- Tune to DAA p.12
Tune To DAA — strum steady beat,
Reading tab
Boil That Cabbage — steady beat, fretting
Down In The Valley — Waltz strum
Left Hand Practice — L.H. Fingering; R.H.
Strumming
Lesson
Three Three Ways To Strum p.16
Three Ways To Strum — R.H. Strumming
Go Tell Aunt Rhody —Strumming
O Suzanna — Back & forth strum
Columbus Stockade — Strumming, fretting
Amazing Grace — Waltz strum; fingering
Lesson
Four - Let Your Right Hand Know p. 21
Let Your Right Hand Know What Your Left Hand Is
Doing —
Techniques
Keep On The Sunny Side — Fretting, Strumming
Angel Band — Waltz Strum
You Are My Sunshine — Reading Tab; Playing
Harmony
On Top Of Old SmokeyNew chords for DAA
Lesson
Five New Techniques in DAD p. 28
Using the 6th Fret & the 6+ Fret
Retuning; New chords inDAD
Old Joe Clark —strumming,
fingering
June Apple — strumming, fingering
Goin’ To Boston — chords, strumming
Buffalo Gals — Using 6+ fret;
understanding the“tie”
Cluck, Ol’ Hen — Using a Capo; String
“bending”
Lesson Six
- More Tunes and Techniques in DAD p. 34
New Tuning DAD — Scales, Using 6+ fret
Joy To The World—
D-Scale, Using
6+ fret
Scotland The Brave —L.H.
Using ALL the strings
Pig In A Pen —Changing
Strings when the Melody goes below D
Bonaparte Crossing The Alps — L.H. fretting up to
11th fret
Sandy Boys — R.H. Double time
strumming
EZ Chords In DAD —Chords
for ANY key
Whiskey Before Breakfast — L.H. Finger; R.H.
Strumming |
Lesson 7 : Using Chords in DAD
Boil That Cabbage - Finger placement
Welsh Lullaby (Suo Gan) - Strumming
Southwind (Irish Waltz) - Strumming, Fretting
Lesson 8: Refine the Strumming and Chord Techniques
Arkansas Traveler - Using the 6+ Fret, Chords
Clinch Mt. Backstep - with easy chords
Liza Jane - Double Time Strum
Bonaparte Crossing The Alps - Back & Forth strum
Lesson 9: Putting It All Together
Spotted Pony - Strum & Fret Across All Strings
Rivers Of Texas - Waltz Strum
Yellow Rose Of Texas - Harmonizing With Chords
Turkey In The Straw - Playing for Dancing
Lesson 10 - Beginning Finger Picking
Pinch- Pick
Are You Sleeping?
Right Hand Practice/ Left Hand Practice
Every Night When The Sun - Assigning R.H. Fingers
Finger Picking using chords- Right Hand Practice
Going Home - Finger Picking Using Chords
Eriskay Love Lilt - More Finger Picking techniques
Lesson 11: Playing Jigs, Reels and Hornpipes
In Dulci Jubilo - A “galloping strum”
Playing Jigs On MD - Counting in 6/8 Time;
Strumming Practice
Regan’s Jig - Strum Direction (Back and Forth)
Lesson 12: New Techniques For Each Hand
Little Brown Jug - Notes to pick, and notes to
strum
Shenandoah - Pick a little, Strum a little
Single Footin’ Horse - Left Hand Technique:
Changing Strings for Melody
In The Garden - Cross picking: New techniques for
both hands
Wild Mountain Thyme - Pick the Melody, Strum the
Chords |
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Why
Not Play In DAA?: $15
"Fifty Tunes in DAA tuning,
written in notation and MD tablature. This is an unusual
collection of interesting arrangements of tunes in this almost
archaic tuning."
Includes hints for beginning players.
You'll find arrangements of dance tunes (clogging tunes and waltzes),
old time tunes, Gospel songs and Christmas music that offer a
chance to practice fretting, strumming finger picking and many
tunes to add to your repertoire.
Complete Contents and Index
in PDF format
Instructional Pages
Hints For Beginners
Ionian Scale
Left Hand Practice
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haams@comcast.net
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