Summary: Madeira 5-string banjo with mahogany resonator and neck, rosewood fretboard, mother-of-pearl inlays and 5th tuner. Great tone, and the closed back causes the sound to resonate forward with strength and clarity.Excellent banjo for Bluegrass, Folk, Country, Celtic and even modern rock.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
O'Brien, Colin (Colin G.)
Summary: "This beginner's book will guide you step by step to playing songs on your banjo in the popular and exciting bluegrass style."--P. [2].
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2010
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 OBRSummary: A self-teaching method designed to offer quality instruction, terrific songs, and on-screen banjo tablature so you can play all the music examples. Simply follow along with the music on the screen as you watch and listen to the teacher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard Corp. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.88 PLA1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: DVD 787.88 PLA
Bullard, John
Contents: Three romances for oboe and piano, op. 94 / Robert Schumann -- Concerto in D minor / Alessandro Marcello -- Partita no. 5 in E minor / Georg Philipp Telemann -- Trio sonata in G minor, op. 2, no. 8, HWV 393 / George Frideric Handel -- Fugue, sonata no. 1, BWV 1001 / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Jesu, joy of man's desiring, movement 10 from the cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben", BWV 147 /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL BULErbsen, Wayne.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Native Ground Music 1987
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Summary: First Lessons Tenor Banjo The great sound of tenor banjo is a cornerstone of Dixieland and traditional jazz. Using classic favorites, Joe Carr teaches the basics of accompaniment, basic melody and the popular chord melody style. Chords and melody are combined to produce professional sounding solo arrangements. This book/CD-DVD combo includes play-along practice tracks that speed up the learning...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Mel Bay Publications 2006
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 CARSummary: Ears of the People is a collection of sublime contemporary recordings of the ekonting, a three-stringed gourd lute played by Jola people in Gambia and the Casamance region of Senegal. The nine tradition-bearers featured on the album share stories of love, heartache, conflict, spirituality, and all that is unique and beautiful in Jola culture over the rolling lilt of the instrument. An important...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/AFRICAN EARBrown, Alison
Contents: Wind the clock -- Choro 'nuff / (feat. Anat Cohen) -- Foggy morning breaking / (feat. Steve Martin) -- Sweet sixteenths / (feat. Sierra Hull) -- Sun and water (Here comes the sun/Waters of March) -- Old shatterhand -- Regalito / (feat. Sharon Isbin) -- Banjobim -- Tall hog at the trough / (feat. Stuart Duncan) -- Porches / (feat. Kronos Quartet)
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY BROFleck, Béla
Summary: Bela Fleck's three-movement concerto, named in honor of his son Juno, was recorded with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra. While this piece follows the standard concerto form, it is a dazzling showcase for Bela's banjo that will be welcomed by his fans, and already heralded by Bluegrass Today as a breakthrough, genre-crossing work.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FLEContents: Remember and do pray for me (Lloyd Chandler) (1:22) -- The silk merchant's daughter (Dellie Norton) (1:55) -- Rambling hobo ; Apple blossom (Gaither Carlton) (1:41; :50) -- Pretty crowing chicken (Frank Proffitt) (3:44) -- Forkey deer (Sidna Myers) (2:03) -- Satan, your kingdom must come down (Frank Proffitt) (1:49) -- Cumberland Gap ; Rolling mills are burning down (George Landers) (1:59;...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 1995
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK HIGTrischka, Tony
Summary: "A collection of over seventy-five bluegrass, old-time fiddle, and classical tunes in tablature for the 5-string banjo : includes sections on Scruggs, Reno, and melodic styles, interviews, tips on playing, and more : for the beginning to advanced player"--Cover.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Oak Publications 1977
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.88 BANSummary: Authored by Mac Robertson, Robbie Clement & Will Schmid, this innovative method teaches 5-string, bluegrass style. The method consists of two instruction books and two cross-referenced supplement books that offer the beginner a carefully paced and interest-keeping approach to the bluegrass style. Now available with CD! Covers easy chord strums for the beginner; learning tablature; right-hand...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Hal Leonard 2011
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 HALContents: [Disc 1]. Chapter 1. [Live at the Boarding House, May 1, 1974]. Salty dog blues -- Doc's talking blues -- Blue yodel no. 1 (T for Texas) -- Miss the Mississippi and you -- Wabash cannonball -- Nancy Rowland -- Solid gone -- Tennessee stud -- Frosty morn -- Matchbox blues -- Mama don't allow no music -- Deep elem blues.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK WATFleck, Béla
Contents: Disc A. Vertigo / feat. Sam Bush, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, and Bryan Sutton -- The old north woods -- Slippery eel / feat. Billy Strings and Chris Thile -- Hug point / feat. Sierra Hull and Molly Tuttle -- Boulderdash / feat. Tony Trischka and Noam Pikelny -- Our little secret -- Round rock / feat. Michael Cleveland and Jerry Douglas -- Baptist pumpkin farm -- Charm school / feat. Billy...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FLEGaddy, K. R.
Summary: "An illuminating history of the banjo, revealing its origins at the crossroads of slavery, religion, and music. In an extraordinary story unfolding across two hundred years, Kristina Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Through meticulous research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, she traces the banjo's beginnings from the seventeenth century,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 787.8 GADContents: Night train to Valhalla / John Fahey (2:14) -- The ice miner / Leo Kottke (1:54) -- Anyhow / Leo Kottke (2:04) -- April in Cambridge / Peter Walker (3:11) -- Water verses / Harry taussig (1:52) -- Children's dance / Harry Taussig (3:48) -- Little Maggie / Sandy Bull (4:08) -- On the banks of the Owchita / John Fahey (3:50) -- Gypsy song / Peter Walker (3:41) -- Raga (1) / Max Ochs (4:53) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK THOBay, Mel
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Mel Bay Publications 1987
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.7071 BAYMunde, Alan.
Summary: This method is designed for learning the finger style five-string banjo in a larger musical context than previous single style based methods. The Modern 5-String Banjo Method builds the theoretical and technical foundations needed to play in many styles. Beginning with a thorough grounding in the scales and chords coupled with well thought out fingerings in the keys of C, Am, and G, the student...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Mel Bay Publications, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 MUNWhiting, Richard A.
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 1930
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMContents: Coo coo (John Snipes) (1:13) -- Coo coo (Dink Roberts) (2:09) -- Old rattler : fox chase (John Snipes) (2:44) -- Georgie Buck (Dink Roberts) (1:00) -- Georgia Buck (Joe Thompson & Odell Thompson) (1:34) -- John Henry (James Roberts) (:47) -- High sheriff (:37) ; John Hardy (1:03) ; Garfield (1:19) ; Old corn liquor (1:19) (Dink Roberts) -- Old corn liquor (1:07) ; John Henry (2:17) (Joe...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways 1998
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BLACoyne, Éamonn
Contents: Introduction -- A short history of the tenor banjo -- Parts of the tenor banjo -- Strings and tuning -- Holding the tenor banjo -- The plectrum -- Picking -- Basic music theory -- Fingering/the fretboard -- The D string -- The A string -- The D major scale -- Rhythm -- Oh! Susanna -- Egan's polka -- The E string -- Johnny Leary's -- The rolling waves -- The G major scale -- The ashplant -- The...
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC 787.88 CONHolcomb, Roscoe.
Contents: Swanno mountain (3:14) -- Across the rocky mountain (5:19) -- Graveyard blues (2:57) -- Single girl (2:58) -- Little Maggie (2:58) -- Born and raised in Covington (2:14) -- Barbara Allen blues (1:26) -- Coal Creek (1:28) -- Rock Island prison (1:31) -- I am a man of constant sorrow / Carter Stanley (2:56) -- Combs Hotel burned down (2:29) -- The hills of Mexico (2:29) -- Knife guitar (1:14) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Folkways Recordings 2003
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY HolcoBaird, Laura
Contents: Wind, wind -- Dreadful wind and rain -- Cuckoo -- Love song from the earth to the moon -- Pretty Saro -- Bats -- Did you come here alone? -- Pretty Polly -- Hay in the wagon -- Home is where you are -- Poor orphan child -- Twin sisters
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Ba Da Bing! 2017