Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes [With CD]

by Jeff Todd Titon

" For years fiddlers and folklorists have prized the old-time fiddle tunes from Kentucky. Many of the most outstanding country music artists hail from the state, including Bill Monroe, widely regarded as the founder of bluegrass music. Even Aaron Copland lifted, note-for-note, a Kentucky fiddler's performance of "Bonaparte's Retreat" for the "Hoedown" section of his ballet Rodeo. That tune and nearly 200 others are transcribed here, most for the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813122007
• ISBN13: 9780813122007
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher