Mel Bay

Composer/Arranger: Martha Einan
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Mountain Dulcimer

Melodies and More contains 30 beautiful arrangements for mountain dulcimer, including 25 traditional tunes from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and five original tunes by Martha Einan. Most of the arrangements include multiple parts for melody, simple melody, harmony, bass and/or fingerpicking. All of the melody parts are also suitable for solo dulcimer.

Twenty-eight arrangements are for three-string dulcimer in DAD tuning and two arrangements are for four-equidistant-string dulcimer in DADD tuning. The tunes are written in standard notation and tablature for intermediate to advanced players.

Song List:
DAD Tuning

• All the Way to Galway
• Ballinderry
• Beginnings
• Breestheen Mira
• Bunessan
• Carraigdhoun
• Carrickfergus
• Crossing the Stream
• Dyma Gariad Fel y Moroedd
• Early One Morning
• Eochaill
• Farewell to Ballymoney
• Fead an Iolair
• The Foggy Dew
• The Grenadier and the Lady
• Jimmy Mo Mhile Stor
• Kelly the Boy from Killane
• The Lea Rig
• Londonderry Air
• Nancy Wants Her Own Share
• O'Donnell Abu
• The Old Plaid Shawl
• One-Lane Bridge
• Over the Water to Charlie
• Saddle the Pony
• The Scottish Emigrant's Farewell
• Seattle Center Saturday
• 'Twas Down in the Meadows

DADD Tuning, Four-String Fingerpicked

• Camping at the Lake
• Dancing Leaves