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    The Cittern Chord Bible
    The Cittern Chord Bible - Fifths Irish & Modal G Longscale Tunings 3 024 Chords: ab 31.49 €
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    The First Book Of Consort Lessons (1599)
    Philippe Malfeyt (Laute) // This book is the principal publication issued during the Renaissance for the strange ensemble known as the Broken Consort with its three plucked string instruments - lute, cittern & pandora - combined with 2 gambas and a flute. Pavanes, gaillardes & other dances by composers of the period share the anthology with variations on folk tunes & pieces of a descriptive character. Morley's arrangements make great use of ornamentation, reserving a virtuoso role for the lute.
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    Walking Stones
    This recording has sold over 50,000 copies which for Celtic and traditional music is outstanding. Here are some comments about the CD and Ken's playing (bio below): Rated as the most influential and popular hammered dulcimer player in a survey of players for a master's thesis on the hammered dulcimer. Wesleyan University, CT, 2005. "...one of today's most accomplished, musical hammered dulcimer artists...A hammered dulcimer player of great taste and sophistication," Elderly '...nothing short of astonishing' The Connection "...without a doubt, Ken Kolodner is one of the hammered dulcimer's top exponents, playing with a dexterity which would stun many a would-be hammerer." Folk Tales Magazine "...virtuosic" Audio "...stunning musicality" Dulcimer Player News "...Outstanding...soulfully beautiful." NY Times "...a fiddle and hammered dulcimer virtuoso...just the right amount of fire...totally delightful..." Sing Out, March 2005 "...A marvelous collection...delightful..." The Washington Post "...joyous...reminiscent of Joe Venuti's work...." Celtic Beat "He's a master at finding what Alasdair Fraser appropriately calls the "rhythmic underbelly" of a tune." Potomac Valley Fiddle Club Newsletter "...stirring...evocative..." The Washington Post, April, 2005. "This is just about all anybody could ask for in an instrumental recording. The tunes are all great...Ken's playing positively sizzles ...delightful...wonderful...Typically, Ken makes great use of syncopation...The up-tempo rhythms are really infectious..." Dulcimer Player News, 2005 'Queen's Polka starts out with a very cool damped down dulcimer backing up Laura's exciting fiddle lead with Robin playing a terrific cittern back up. This leads up to a wonderful crescendo transition into the Bournish Polka where the dulcimer takes an unmistakable driving lead. It excites me every time I hear it...You have here, the first ever Dulcimer Times hammered dulcimer Five stars album!' Dulcimer Times 'Walking Stones is a very rewarding musical journey... delightful listening. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The instruments weave seamlessly in and around each other and deliver that 'Celtic pulse' that, done right, seems as effortless and natural as breathing.' Dulcimer Player News "...inspiring...the interplay between the hammered dulcimer's precise percussive qualities and the graceful fluidity of Risk's fiddling was a real treat." "Rambles: A Cultural Arts Magazine" As a major part of the rebirth of the hammered dulcimer in the US, Ken is recognized as one of "one of today's most accomplished, musical hammered dulcimer artists...A hammered dulcimer player of great taste and sophistication," (Elderly). Ken is widely viewed among players as one of the most influential in the United States. Ken is well known for his improvisational and expressive style that has been described as 'nothing short of astonishing' (The Connection), "outstanding" (The New York Times), "marvelous" (The Washington Post) and "virtuosic" (Audio) and "stunning in it's musicality" (Dulcimer Player News) and "not to be missed" (USA TODAY). And Folk Tales Magazine writes, "...without a doubt, Ken Kolodner is one of the hammered dulcimer's top exponents, playing with a dexterity which would stun many a would-be hammerer." In more recent years, Ken has received greater recognition as an old-time fiddler. As a member of the trio Helicon (with Chris Norman and Robin Bullock) and Greenfire (with fiddler Laura Risk) and in solo appearances, Ken has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and has been featured in nationally broadcast concerts on NPR, German National Radio, The Thistle and the Shamrock, the CBC, Performance Today, All Things Considered, and on the Voice of America (with a listening audience of over 90 million), as well as countless television and radio broadcasts around the U.S. Ken has been featured at numerous major festivals and performing arts centers in the U.S., was the first American to be featured at the International Hackbrett Festival. Among his performances with many choral groups and major symphony orchestras, was an appearance in Emmy-nominated CBS-TV Christmas special as the featured soloist with a combined chorus (The Baltimore Choral Arts) and a chamber orchestra of members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his work as a performer, Ken is highly sought after as a teacher of the dulcimer and, more recently the fiddle, having taught at countless festivals and music camps (on both fiddle and dulcimer) throughout the U.S. including The Swannanoa Gathering (thirteen years), Common Ground (four years), the John Campbell Folk School (five years), the Augusta Heritage Festival (three years), the Summer Solstice Festival (three years), Meadowlark (ten years) and numerous others. Adding to Ken's previous recordings, Ken's first solo release of Celtic music in 1997, Walking Stones, was a huge critical success. With sales of 50,000+, the CD hit the top of the World Music charts and was a top seller for BMG in their Classical/World Music category. In addition to solo performance, Ken has maintained a busy recording schedule. With Helicon alum Robin Bullock and Cordelia's Dad fiddler Laura Risk, the trio recorded the CD Greenfire in 1998. Helicon's A Winter Solstice (1999) became the first release for Dorian Recordings to win a coveted "Indie" (akin to a Grammy for thousands of Independent labels) for Best Seasonal Recording. Ken's eighth CD, A Roof for the Rain with Laura Risk, cittern-wizard Joseph Sobol and Keith Murphy (of Nightingale) again on the Dorian label was widely praised. Ken contributed an original work which has now been widely recorded ("Caspian Lake") to Mel Bay's Anthology of Masters of the Hammered dulcimer and has written three other tune books. Ken's most recent release in 2005 was Journey to the Heartland, on Maggie's Music. Ken has guest recorded on CDs by Scottish National Fiddle champion, Elke Baker, as well as many hammered dulcimer players (whom he helped mentor as well): Anna Duff, Susan Sherlock, Samantha Oberkfell, Rick Thum, Rachel Sprinkle and Deb Justice. Most recently, Ken produced The Preacher's Daughters featuring Rachel Sprinkle and Deb Justice. Ken's playing is also featured on a the newly-released compilation of many of the worlds' best hammered dulcimer players collected from many years of performance at the International Hackbrett Festival in Munich, Germany. Without any formal music background, Ken began learning to play the fiddle at age 23 by listening to recordings of bluegrass and American Old-time or Appalachian music. A few years after picking up the fiddle, Ken discovered the hammered dulcimer while in graduate school. Ken's interest in the two instruments developed into an ever-expanding musical appetite beginning with Celtic music and eventually into music spanning many cultures ranging from South American music to Chinese music. While he has mastered the fiddle and hammered dulcimer without formal musical training, he has had plenty of schooling. Along with his hammers, Ken holds a PhD in public health from Johns Hopkins. While most of Ken's professional career is devoted to music, Ken still actively works as a part-time epidemiologist (with over 90 publications), while his family and an avid interest in soccer maintain center stage!
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    Gardenaire
    On our debut CD, Gardenaire, we combine a variety of styles and types of music, which could loosely be called 'folk'. We intend each track to be different from the preceding track and so be a surprise for the listener. We play tunes as well as songs: some traditional, some contemporary, some composed by members of the band, some by other modern songwriters. Songs can be funny, thought-provoking, sad or happy. Some songs are combined with tunes to form what, for want of a better name, we have called 'songstrumentals'. We use a combination of typical folk instruments: guitar, flute, hammered dulcimer, melodeon, bagpipes, whistle and concertina, and less common instruments: cittern, saxophone, bandoneon, footbass, musical saw, desk bells. We value our musical roots but take a contemporary approach to what we play. Hopefully, this is epitomised by the tinted photograph on our album cover: the gentleman on the tricycle is the great-grandfather of one of the members of Crownstreet - but what's that coming out of the top pocket of his jacket and going to his ears? It isn't his hearing aid!
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    Shepheards Holyday
    We created this CD to fill a need in the English Country Dance community for recordings with the right tempos and repeat structures to actually perform the original dances to. At the same time, we wanted to make an early music CD that was listenable without sounding stuffy, boring, or amateurish. Shepheards Holyday is the culmination of that effort. All of the tunes in this CD come from The English Dancing Master, published by John Playford in 1651. We kept to all acoustic and mostly traditional instruments for this recording, and I would say our interpretations are about 90% traditional, though you may occasionally notice a crunchy accompaniment or a jazzy bass riff that keeps it from sounding too academic. This recording is primarily the work of Kelly Bowen-McCombs on Lyra da Braccio (an Italian renaissance violin/viola favored by Leonardo DaVinci), Nyckelharpa (a Swedish keyed fiddle), and Hammered Dulcimer, and Leith McCombs on guitar, lute, cittern, bass, flute, whistle, recorders, krumhorns, and mandolin. Our vocalist Britta Jean Duval-Hemmen sang lead on the three vocal tracks. Our sound engineer, Steve Berry, laid some wicked snare drums, and Leith's brother Nick added a new dimension to many of the pieces with his bass lines. Leith and Kelly took turns with hand percussion.
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    Behind the Door
    ?Stonecraft release their much anticipated third album Behind the door on March 1st. The album comprises ten tracks, two instrumentals and eight songs, seven of which are original compositions and one traditional Welsh folksong. The album has a folk rock feel and the duo continue to develop their own distinctive acoustic sound created by vocal harmonies combined with the use of Celtic instruments such as the cittern and the bouzouki. Stonecraft are a musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Andy Morgan and guitarist and singer/ songwriter Viil Fjose. ? The two singer-songwriters have developed their own unique style and write and perform their own songs and instrumentals. The sound has been developed from a wide variety of influences, Andy starting up as an electric guitarist who developed a love for Welsh and Celtic traditional music and Viil coming from a classical background with roots in the traditional music of Norway. ?Stonecraft was formed after Andy and Viil left the alt country cover band Ridgebacks - looking to take their music in a more acoustic and traditional direction without drums and bass. The band also wanted to play their own original material. ?This new direction was enhanced when the violin player Charles Oakley joined the duo briefly. His involvement was the start of the line up with Viil on guitar and Andy using either the cittern or bouzouki to create the sound they have today. After developing the sound on the local circuit in Swansea they went on to record their first album in 2008 which was recorded and produced with the assistance of engineer Lawson Dando at Albany Studios in Cardiff. The album consisted of nine songs and two instrumentals. Acoustic Magazine wrote at the time: A fine debut which shows much promise. They followed up the Call with 2010's Moving Tides recording ten new songs. They were joined on by three other musicians on Chris Pitson on bouzouki, Huw Rees on gacon and percussion and Kenny MacDonald on flute and whistle. The release of Moving Tides coincided with a period of personal development and travel when they travelled extensively throughout France and Spain. After they finished travelling they settled in Saint Malo where Andy had played extensively in 1997. Throughout 2011 the duo played many gigs in North Brittany including the Mardi Zicos festival in Saint Malo and the Route D'Cidre in Dinan. The duo then put their energies into a new album and started the work on this in early 2012 whilst also playing in and around Saint Malo. Having been booked for a festival in Norway where Viil's family comes from, they decided to change the backdrop for the recording of the album and spent two months recording at Viil's uncles farm in Rollag, Norway. Their new album Behind the door is scheduled to be released early 2013 when Viil and Andy will be returning to Saint Malo to continue their French adventure.
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    Cut to Rhythms
    Tania Opland and Mike Freeman are from... well, let's see -- England, Ireland, Alaska, Western Washington...? Let's say all of the above. You can read their webpage for more details about that, but be warned: it's confusing. Their music comes from all over the map, too, gathered from their journeys and other rambling musicians they've met along the way. This CD includes material from Ireland, England, Norway, Russia, Macedonia, Uzbekistan, plus a few originals, written on the road, so not really from anywhere specific. Mike Freeman: Djembe, darabouka, vocals, guitar, mandolin, cittern. Tania Opland: Guitar, vocals, violin, hammered dulcimer, tenor recorder, Kiowa (Native American) flute, keyboard, piccolo-melodeon. Guest artist: Dee de Wit on 'cello and double bass.
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    Non E Tempo
    The Peabody Consort is a select group of early music students, alumni and guest artists from the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University. The program consists of arrangements of popular music from the 16th and early 17th centuries for voice and consort or band of mixed instruments. Our Instrumental ensemble features winds (sopranino, soprano, alto, and tenor recorders), plucked strings (lute, cittern, Renaissance guitar, and theorbo), bowed strings (bass viol or viola da gamba), and percussion (frame drum, Egyptian tambourine or riq, and doumbec.
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    The Fruit of Love
    Anthony Holborne published an important collection of works in five parts for viola da gamba and other instruments in 1599, this was the first publication of instrumental dances in England. A skilled lute player himself, he was also known for his mastery of the bandora and the cittern. The dances are mostly pavanes, galliards and allemandes, although they are all linked by titles that either suggest a particular musical character or that are deliberately more enigmatic...
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