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Prairie Pioneer Fiddle Tunes
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Fiddle - Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced
SKU: MB.31252
Tunes from the Laura Ingalls Wilder book series The Little House on the Prairie. Composed by Janet Farrar-Royce. Strings; Fiddle; Bluesgrass; Country; Folk, Perfect binding. Bluesgrass. Book. 138 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31252. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31252).ISBN 9781513485225. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Night after night, Charles Pa Ingalls lifted his fiddle and filled their cabin with music as the family gathered to listen, sing, and dance. Music was the heartbeat of their home, lifting their spirits amid the hardships of prairie life. Step into the world of Prairie Pioneer Fiddle Tunesa musical journey inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved stories of 19th-century frontier life.This book brings together the 106 tunes that Wilder wrote about in her Little House books. The tunes are presented in lead sheet format, with chord symbols for optional accompanying instruments. Written in the traditional fiddling keys that Pa Ingalls most likely used, these tunes range in difficulty from Very Easy to Somewhat Difficult, with most falling in the Easy to Moderate range. Bowing and fingering suggestions are included, as well as helpful violin and fiddling techniques. Also included are historical notes for many of the tunes, along with book quotes and scene descriptions highlighting when each tune first appears in the Little House stories.
- How To Use This Book
- Abbreviations for Book Quotes
- From Little House in the Big Woods
- Yankee Doodle
- Money Musk
- The Red Heifer
- Devil's Dream
- Arkansas Traveler
- Darling Nellie Gray
- Rock Of Ages
- Am I A Soldier Of The Cross
- Pop! Goes the Weasel
- Uncle Ned
- Sweet Kitty Wells
- Captain Jinks
- Buffalo Gals
- Irish Washerwoman
- Home, Sweet Home
- Old Grimes is Dead
- Oh, Susanna!
- Auld Lang Syne
- From Little House on the Prairie
- Daisy Deane
- The Gipsy King
- Old Dan Tucker
- Roll On Silver Moon
- Bye, Baby Bunting
- Green Grows The Laurel
- There is a Happy Land Far, Far Away
- The Blue Juniata
- Dixie
- Rally 'Round the Flag
- The Tom Bigbee Waltz
- From On the Banks of Plum Creek
- Ring-Around-a-Rosy
- Uncle John is Sick Abed
- Wait For The Wagon
- Jerusalem, The Golden
- Blue Bonnets Over The Border
- The Campbells Are Coming
- Life Let Us Cherish
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- The Girl I Left Behind
- My Old Kentucky Home
- Old Folks At Home
- When Jesus Holds My Hand
- Sweet Sabbath School
- Weevily Wheat
- Lily Dale
- Polly Put The Kettle On
- From By the Shores of Silver Lake
- Take Care! Beware!
- A Railroad Man for Me
- Uncle Sam's Farm
- Buy a Broom!
- My Pretty Maid
- Mary Of The Wild Moor
- Paddle Your Own Canoe
- Hail Columbia
- Highland Mary
- Comin' Through The Rye
- Heel and Toe Polka
- Down the (Ohio) River
- Why Chime the Bells so Merrily
- Jingle Bells
- Come Let Us Go Up to the Mountain of the Lord
- Gentle Words and Loving Smiles
- Merry, Merry Christmas Everywhere
- The Gypsy's Warning
- The Old Time
- I Wish I Were Single Again
- Billy Boy
- Camptown Races
- Three Blind Mice
- Nelly Was A Lady
- Ben Bolt
- Oft In The Stilly Night
- Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon
- Lend a Helping Hand
- I'm as Happy as a Big Sunflower
- Drive Dull Cares Away
- Beacon-Light of Home
- Keep the Horseshoe over the Door
- Barbara Allen
- From The Long Winter
- The Floating Scow of Old Virginia
- Roll Out the Old Chariot
- Little Annie Rooney
- The Old Gray Mare
- Sweet By And By
- A Shelter In The Time Of Storm
- Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us on Canaan’s Happy Shores
- Bright Canaan
- Home of the Soul
- We’re All Here (Do No Harm)
- It Will Never Do To Give It Up So
- Great is the Lord and Greatly Be Praised
- Bring Flowers of the Rarest
- Where There’s a Will There’s a Way
- From These Happy Golden Years
- My Sabbath Home
- Here's to the Maid of Bashful 15
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Golden Years Are Passing By
- Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad
- In the Starlight
- Singing School
- Come In and Shut the Door
- The Heavens Declare the Glory of God
- For The Sake Of Somebody
- In Dreamland Far Away
- The Star Of Bethlehem
- The Treadmill Song
- Love's Old Sweet Song
- Glossary
- Additional Tune Lyrics
- Alphabetical Tune List
- Bibliography
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