Magic Mandolin

Folk songs are a record of history which survive wars and revolution. They are derived from different phases of the human condition. Carried by gypsies, storytellers, peddlers, and migrant farmers throughout the continents, they are snapshots of the past, moments in time, frozen in song. The mandolin has found its way into a myriad of cultures. This collection contains folk tunes from Russia, Poland, Macedonia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Peru with lyrics written in the original language with phonetic transliteration as well as English translations. Songs are written in both notation and tablature. A special section containing chord diagrams, scales, and a glossary of musical terms is included. This collection is intended to increase awareness of folk music. Magic Mandolin will appeal to mandolinists of all levels. The companion listening CD contains arrangements of eight of the tunes found in the book.

When precocious Mandolin MacDuff wakes up in a strange room, she feels scared, abandoned and then total emptiness turned her body into mush. But when she looked out her window, the only window, she sees a tall man driving a machine with one arm up and down, up and down. She studied him through her tears, discovered his other arm was kind of withered, hung loosely, and didnt seem to bother him. That meant he was brave. Cool! He would be her friend. And so begins a captivating generational story; a thirty-year quest into a complex world to find her way, to learn the truth, the secret of her past and the ever illusive hakka bakka

A master collection of mandolin music in notation and tablature. Contains classical, early country, bluegrass, fiddle tunes, blues, gospel, and ragtime music. A great source book for mandolin repertoire.

When large numbers of students from Spain arrived in New York in 1880, they introduced the American public to a new instrument – the mandolin. Spanning more than a century, this book chronicles the national mandolin craze that swept across the nation and the evolution of the instrument in America to the present day. Eclipsing the banjo and guitar as the most popular fretted instrument in the late 19th century, the mandolin inspired the formation of the Gibson company. After World War I, the mandolin went into a long period of decline, during which it found sanctuary in rural string bands and bluegrass music. By the 1980s, a revival was underway, with adventurous players using mandolins in all types of musical settings, including symphonic, semi-classical ensembles, jazz, klezmer, Irish, choro, and all the branches emanating from bluegrass. The Mandolin in America profiles all the significant makers, including Bigsby, Epiphone, Fender, Flatiron, Giacomel, Gibson, Gilchrist, Lyon & Healy, Martin, Monteleone, National, Nugget, Vega, Vinaccia, and Washburn. Lavishly illustrated with color photos throughout, this is a must-have volume for collectors and music enthusiasts alike.

"Yuck, this milk is spoiled! Now, what am I supposed to eat?" Ms. King glumly walked to her kitchen sink filled with soggy paper plates and plastic spoons. She poured the seven-day-old milk down the drain and exhaled deeply. "Dang it, I really waned some Coca-Puff's today. Oh well, there's no used to complain over spilled milk I guess...'" Carla's Lunch is a comedy surrounded by food and unique friendships that simmer into troubled waters during an unexpected lunch break.

THIS COLLECTION CONTAINS FOLK TUNES FROM RUSSIA, POLAND, MACEDONIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND MORE! LYRICS WRITTEN IN THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGE WITH PHONETIC TRANSLITERATION AS WELL AS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS.

This Side Up: The Road to a Renovated Life is a home and garden editor’s story of a life constantly under construction, none by design. Written with candor, humor and grace, Amy Mangan shares her own home tour, but this one deftly sheds light on job loss, financial shame, home displacement, marital discord, illness and caregiving. Faced with one crisis after the next, Amy discovers how to cope, hope and rebuild, finding a new way home to a stronger way of life.