The Portland Collection: Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest, Revised Edition
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0965747646 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 310 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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She has also tutored fiddle and piano several times at the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes in Port Townsend. She discovered contra dancing in 1986 and loved it immediately. In Portland, he was active as a contra dance musician in the bands Jigsaw and The Rose City Aces. classes. . Clyde has extensive experience as a musician at contra dance camps and music festival
Marc Bachman said Portland Collection Folk and Traditional sheet music melody books. I play with a group of musicians that use Portland Collection I, II, and III. Simple, large and easy to read, with spiral binding. The only thing I really need is the book in digital format to use on my tablet.. "Can't do without these collections" according to DickStanley.. This and its companion volume 2 have become the bible of contra dance bands across the country, hence their priciness. They are just the right size (and spiral-bound!) for a music stand or laying out on a fiddle case on the floor. The Fiddler's Fake Book gets its due, of course, and has some pieces that aren't in the Portland Collection. But where else can you find dance arrangements of such Old Time mountain classics as "Shove That Pig's Foot a Little Further in the Fire." String players who accompany the popular traditional English country dancing craze. Spiral binding is well designed. A nice collection of tunes. Check out " a boy's lament for his dragon" serendipity Has many of the tunes played by my folk jam group. I like the well designed metal spiral binding which is sturdy, doesn't fall apart like the plastic bindings do. You can fold back the book on any page easily and it will lie flat.
Most folks interested in contra dance music or fiddling in general know The Portland Collection, a wonderful tune book. . --Bruce E Baker, Dirty Linen, Feb/Mar 2002.This is an important piece of workone of the best throughout collections to come across this desk --Bob Buckingham, Fiddler Magazine, Spring, 1999.an impressive and welcome tomeclear and clean transcription, enjoyable commentaries on each piece. --Kerry Blech, Victory Review, September, 1997
On A Portland Selection 2 editors Susan Songer and Clyde Curley, joined by fiddler George Penk, play a representative cross section of the music in the book using a variety of tempos, harmonies, and other variations on the music. Discography, bibliography, indices, and more are included. There is an extensive commentary on each tune. For this ninth printing of The Portland Collection, the electronic files were completely recreated to make them compatible with today's computers. The music derives from New England, Irish, Scottish, Quebecois, Appalachian, and English sources, all of which are included in the book. Beginners and accomplished musicians alike will find tunes that match their skill levels in this book. This music is suitable for any acoustic instrument. The Portland Collection: Contra Dance Music in the Pacific Northwest is a collection of 318 traditional and recently composed jigs and reels played for dances in Portland, Oregon. Both of these recordings are for sale elsewhere on .. While there are no changes to the music in the book (other than the correction of a few notation mistakes), this update provided the opportunity to make some improvements in formatting. A Portland Play Along Selection is a 2-disc album of 97 tunes from both of the Portland