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Compendium of Fiddle Styles
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It is different than many compendiums in that it is focused on styles in the sense of techniques rather than on styles in the sense of techniques associated with specific regions. Many fiddle styles are associated with specific regions and when that is the case we will acknowledge it. You may also be interested in other Wikibooks on related topics.
Chapters
Roots:Appalachian and Anglo-Celtic styles/
French influence
/Down on the Bayou/
Quebecois and Down East
Blues
Early Music: Renaissance, Church Modal
Hoedown "Fiddle" Music and Later Developments
/Western swing fiddle/
The Bluegrass Revolution/
Electric rock
/Klezmer/
Other Wikibooks
Ethnography of Fiddle
Fiddlers Companion
How to Play Fiddle
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McPherson's Lament, performed by its eighteenth century composer "upon the gallers tree".
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