The Story of the Dulcimer - 2nd edition

Informationen zum Autor RALPH LEE SMITH is a musician specializing in traditional Appalachian music and, along with the late Jean Ritchie, is widely regarded as the leading authority on the music and history of the dulcimer. He is the author of seven collections of folk songs relating to the dulcimer. He recently published a memoir/songbook, Greenwich Village: The Happy Folk Singing Days, 1950s-1960s , which recounts his time in New York City during the folk revival. Klappentext Perhaps no instrument better represents the music of Appalachia than the fretted dulcimer. But where did the dulcimer! known to exist in no other folk culture in the world! come from? In The Story of the Dulcimer! Ralph Lee Smith traces the dulcimer's beginnings back to European immigration to America in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Ralph Lee Smith
• Publisher: External catalogues_US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781621902386
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-238-6
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 255 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Charles K. Wolfe Music; Charles K. Wolfe Music
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries