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On-Site Archived Articles about the Folksongs :

 1. "The Rybuck Shearer": F2
 2. Tierce de Picardie
     ("The Coventry Carol"): F3
 3. Lombardic Rhythm -
     (Scotland and Hungary): F2
 4. "Simple Gifts": F2
 5. "Sur le Pont d'Avignon": F1
 6. "Ick heff mol in Hamborger
     Veermaster sehn": F3
 7. Northumbrian Bagpipes
     ("The Durham Reel"): F2
 8. "Stenka Razin": F2
 9. "The Overlander": F2
10. "Barbara Allen": F1
11. "Beautiful Dreamer": F4
12. "Oranges and Lemons": F1
13. "Click Go the Shears"
     ("Ring the Bell, Watchman"): F2
14. "The Pretty Maid Milking the Cow": F4
15. "Rosin the Bow (Beau)"
     ("The Catalpa"): F3
16. "Vive La Canadienne": F4
17. "The Vicar of Bray": F2
18. "Nine Miles from Gundagai": F2
19. "Chevy Chase": F4
20. "March the Men of Harlech": F3
21. "Song of the Volga Boatmen": F3
22. "Old MacDonald Had a Farm": F1
"The Barnyard Song": F2
"The Farmyard": F3
23. "Amazing Grace": F3
24. "Bound for South Australia": F3
25. "Carolan's Lament": F4
26. "Bushes and Briers": F3
27. "Ten Thousand Miles Away": F3, F2
28. "The Cavalier", "Polly Oliver": F2
29. "Augathella Station", or
   "The Ladies of Brisbane", a parody on
   "The Ladies of Spain": F3
30. "Dumbarton's Drums": F4
31. "The Reedy Lagoon": F3
32. "All Through the Night": F3
33. Christmas Music: F1, F2, F3, F4.

Special Article
"Mary Had A Little Lamb":
...the 'True Story of Mary's Little Lamb'

Special Article
The Modes in Folk Music

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"Folk Music is the Basis of All Music
   ...Every form of vocal and instrumental music we possess
          has developed out of folk song or dance..."
                      ...The Oxford Companion to Music, Tenth Edition


FOLKSONGS FOR THE VIOLIN     by M. Lesley Halamek

HOW  TO  Progress

   from being a...

Total  Beginner  on the Violin

                        ...to being a

Competent  and  Fluent  Player  in the

First and Third Positions on the Violin

And Then in the Second, Half, Fourth, and Fifth Positions

            ...WITHOUT...

the Boredom in between...

Enter an Exciting World of Music Discovery, Enjoyment, and Success!

• Part 1: DISCOVERING THE VIOLIN
  ISBN 0 9588439-5-3           (Click on the Link above for List of Folksongs in this Book)
  
  ...Your First Steps on the Road to Violin Playing Success...
  
  (65 Pages: 69 Folksongs: A,D,G Major, with appropriate Scales and
  Exercises, Ensemble Music, and a Trouble Shooting Guide)
  
  
  Listen to Selected  F1 Excerpts                 ORDER  HERE
  
  
  
  
• Part 2: THE VIOLIN IN MAJOR KEYS
  ISBN 09588439-6-1           (Click on the Link above for List of Folksongs in this Book)
  
  ...Further Strides along the Road to Violin Playing Success...
  
  (83 Pages: 93 Folksongs - G-Ab; E-G, plus E and A Natural Minor,
  with appropriate Scales and Exercises, Ensemble Music,
  a Trouble Shooting Guide, and Minor scales of D,G,A,E,B,
  in first position).
  
  NOTE: I have added an Appendix, with a few extra pages (Minor scales ...).
  If you have purchased Folksongs 2, please e-mail me, and I shall send .pdf files of the extra pages.
  
  
  Listen to Selected  F2 Excerpts                              Order Here
  
  
  
  
• Part 3: THIRD POSITION, MODES, AND PENTATONES
  ISBN 0 9588439-7-X           (Click on the Link above for List of Folksongs in this Book)
  
  ...Now a Giant Leap Forward on the Road to Violin Playing Success...
  
  (73 Pages: 83 Folksongs, including Minor Keys: D,G,A,E,B,
  with appropriate Scales and Exercises, and Ensemble Music).
  
  
  Listen to Selected  F3 Excerpts                              Order Here
  Read Article (The Modes in Folk Music)
  
  
  
• Part 4: A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND,
  HALF, FOURTH, AND FIFTH POSITIONS
  ISBN 0 9581714 0 8           (Click on the Link above for List of Folksongs in this Book)
  
  ...Another Giant Leap Forward on the Road to Violin Playing Success...
  
  (56 Pages: 81 Folksongs, with appropriate Scales and Exercises).
  
  "This Book is also an extremely valuable Revision Resource"
  
  
  Listen to Selected  F4 Excerpts                              Order Here
  
  
  

* All Books laser printed on quality Hi-Tech 120gsm paper using the superb
"Sibelius" Music Notation Software.

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"Why FOLKSONGS?", you ask.


...Because...

      FOLKSONG is the foundation of modern music.

It has evolved over countless centuries in the lives of ordinary people:-

• villagers singing while bringing in the harvest
  
  
• children singing at play
  
  
• sailors singing shanties while hauling up the anchor,
  or setting the sails
  
  
• happy lovers; sad lovers
  
  
• soldiers marching; soldiers' widows lamenting
  
  
• court jesters lampooning everyone
  
  
• shepherds playing on hand whittled pipes
  
  
• wandering minstrels with rebecs or lutes
  
  
• Irish Fiddlers; Welsh Harpists
  
  
• Scottish Bagpipers; French Bagpipers; Turkish Bagpipers
  
  
• Australian aboriginal tribal chiefs sending picture stories to the
  minds of their people with their didjeridoos around the
  campfires at night
  
  
• Japanese and Chinese Court musicians...the list is endless, from
  
  
• Temple Musicians of ancient Egypt, to the
  
  
• Greek mathematician Pythagoras (who, with other Greek
  mathematicians of the 6th Century B.C., worked out an early
  scale system)
  
  ...through the
  
  
• Mediaeval Monasteries and Nunneries with their choirs
  
  
• the courtly troudadours; and
  
  
• young mothers everywhere crooning their babies to sleep.....

All have contributed strands to that magnificent tapestry we call


                                              MUSIC


Folksong is music which belongs to everyone,
and to no-one in particular.

It is our heritage from our ancestors, and from their ancestors...
...back to the dawn of time.

Music is our birthright, and our children's birthright.

Music is of one life's great mysteries.

To all those who can read and play music,
        marvellous new horizons open up
                for their wonder and delight.

The study of music is a lifelong adventure, with the seeker finding
new wonders around every corner.....

                ...So.....



       FOLKSONGS FOR THE VIOLIN



AND...TEACHERS...You can help your Beginner Violinists
to read Music quickly and easily ...with...



THE VIOLINIST'S THEORY NOTEBOOK







       ORDER    'FOLKSONGS For The VIOLIN'   HERE



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