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

The primary editor of this book is Fiddlin' Geof Bard. Without the tireless assistance of the Wiki Books administrators this book would not have been possible.

Primary author and general editor Geof Bard playing the dirge-like

McPherson's Lament, performed by its eighteenth century composer "upon the gallers tree".

This book is a required text for [Fiddlers' Green: Beyond Violin], a course at our sister site