Lois Hornbostel, Editor

Happy Holidays from Dulcimer Sessions®!


This is our third Holiday Music issue, and we hope you enjoy the music! All of the pieces have notation and can be played on hammered dulcimer.

This issue contains the following articles and music for your enjoyment:

1. "Il Est Né le Divin Enfant" French Christmas carol arranged for mountain dulcimer by Lois Hornbostel. Contains sound file from the new CD "Masters of the Mountain Dulcimer Play Music for Christmas."
2. "Winter's Run" an original piece arranged for hammered dulcimer by Jody Marshall. Contains sound file that blends Jody's composition with Prokofiev's "Troika."
3. "The Cherry Tree Carol" from the Mel Bay collection Folk Songs of Old Kentucky collected and arranged for mountain and hammered dulcimers by Ralph Lee Smith and Madeline MacNeil.
4. "Breakin' up Christmas," an old-time fiddle tune commemorating Christmas traditions in the Round Peak area of North Carolina. Contains sound file.

Holiday Music from the past two years in DulcimerSessions.com Back Issues:

December 2006 - http://www.dulcimersessions.com/dec06/index.html
"I Wonder as I Wander" and "Walking in Snow" from Jon Kay
"Greensleeves" from Janita Baker
"Leading of the Star" from Anne Lough
"O Come, O Come Emmanuel" from Bud and Donna Ford
"I Saw Three Ships" from Linda Thomas

December 2005 - http://www.dulcimersessions.com/dec05/index.html
"In the Bleak Midwinter" from Ken Kolodner
"Christmas Eve" from Lance Frodsham
"The Dreydl Song"and "S'Vivon" from Joellen Lapidus
"'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime" from Steve Eulberg

The Mel Bay family of dulcimer books contains outstanding resources for a wide variety of Holiday and other music styles. For more great music for mountain and hammered dulcimers from Mel Bay, make sure to visit: www.baysidepress.com then click on Dulcimer in the left margin. That takes you to the Main dulcimer page. Click on Hammered Dulcimer or Mountain Dulcimer and check out the "All" line for a delightful browse!

Many thanks to our December issue authors. I invite hammered and mountain dulcimer players to submit articles to me for possible inclusion in a future DulcimerSessions.com. We also welcome requests for new subjects from visitors to this website.

Lois Hornbostel, Editor
Dulcimer Sessions
loisdulc@verizon.net
Website: www.LoisHornbostel.com
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• Winter's Run by Jody Marshall
• The Cherry Tree Carol by Ralph Lee Smith & Madeline MacNeil
• Il Est Né, le Divin Enfant by Lois Hornbostel
• Breakin' up Christmas by Lois Hornbostel