Product Overview
Published by Music Sales America. The Fiddler's Fakebook is not for fiddlers only. It provides anyone who can read music with a long needed, unique source of repertoire. Gathered together in one volume are the most-played, most-requested, most-useful tunes from the full complement of regional and national styles. Included in the nearly 500 tunes are jigs, reels, and hornpipes from the British Isles and the US; Old-Time breakdowns and rags; marches and strathspeys from Scotland and Nova Scotia/Cape Breton; Texas Style and Western Swing tunes; New England contra dances; and much more. In some cases several popular variants of a tune are given. The exhaustive discography is indexed by tune allowing you to locate a recorded source for any tune in the book. In addition there is a select discography of suggested listening in each genre. For help in finding any tune instantly, there is an index of alternate titles providing easy cross-reference of tunes with more than one title and related tunes with dissimilar titles. The enormous wealth of material in the Fiddler's Fakebook makes it more than a reference book to be left on the shelf. You will find it helpful in any playing situation - from a square dance to an informal gathering of friends. You can study it page by page learning those tunes that particularly strike your fancy. But perhaps most importantly, you can have a great deal of fun just stitting down and playing through these remarkable monuments to the traditional musician's art.
