Seraphine and Melodeon Instructor - online book
Containing New And Complete Instructions
And A Large Collection Of Popular And Fashionable Music
Compiled By Elias Howe, Published By Oliver Ditson, Circa 1851
About This Book
There is some geographic disagreement over the terms button accordion and melodeon. In England a bisonoric (different note on push and draw of the bellows) button accordion with one, two or three rows of buttons on the right hand (melody) side is likely to be called a melodeon. In Ireland a melodeon refers only to one-row instruments, while in the southern United States even these are called accordions. The available notes on the melody side are based on different keys. For example, you could have a 1-row melodeon in the key of G. This would give you the notes G/A - B/C - D/E - F#/G spread over 4 buttons. Commonly used melodeons nowadays include the D/G box with 2 rows, used especially in English traditional music (particularly for the accompaniment of social and Morris dancing), while instruments in G/C, C/F or G/C/F (with three treble rows of buttons), are widely used in France, Italy and central/eastern Europe. Irish traditional musicians generally favour instruments in B/C or C#/D. Because the keys of the latter are a semitone apart, all the notes of the chromatic scale are in theory available (unlike the D/G box or others where the interval is a fourth). There are many variations on these layouts, with 2½ row melodeons, accidentals and various options which players sometimes customise to suit their own requirements. The two-row melodeon is apparently limited by being able to play only in its two given major keys - e.g. D and G, and their associated minor keys of A and E. However some tunes in the major keys of E and A can also be managed, and in practice most British and Irish traditional music, and north American music with these roots, strays little from this limited set of keys. The vast majority of the traditional repertoire can be played using just fourteen notes available on all two-row melodeons.
Seraphine and Melodeon Instructor, Index Page
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Title Page
Musical Instructions, - 0003
Musical Instructions Continued, - 0004
Musical Instructions Continued, - 0005
Exercises, - 0006
General Rules for playing the Piano, - 0007
General Rules Continued, - 0008
General Rules Continued, - 0009
Scale for the Piano, - 0010
Passages to exercise the right hand, - 0011
Passages for left hand, - 0012
Exercises, - 0013
Exercises Continued, - 0014
Exercises Continued, - 0015
Major Scales, - 0016
Major Scales Continued, - 0017
Major Scales Continued, - 0018
Twelve Minor Gamuts, - 0019
Twelve Minor Gamuts Continued, - 0020
Twelve Minor Gamuts Continued, - 0021
Ten o'clock, - 0022
Ten o'clock Continued, - 0023
There is no home like my own, - 0024
There is no home like my own, Continued. - 0025
She wore a wreath of roses, - 0026
She wore a wreath of roses, Continued, - 0027
The Bride's farewell, - 0028
The Bride's farewell Continued - 0029
Long, long ago, - 0030
Long, long ago Continued, - 0031
When stars are in the quiet skies, - 0032
Carrier Dove, - 0033
Switzer's song of home, - 0034
Love not, - 0035
When stars are in the quiet skies Continued, - 0036
Love not Continued - 0037
Araby's Daughter, - 0038
Araby's Daughter, Continued, - 0039
Still so gently o'er me stealing, - 0040
Still so gently o'er me stealing Continued,. - 0041
I dreamt that I dwelt in Marble Halls, - 0042
I dreamt that I dwelt in, Continued - 0043
Waltz from der Freischutz, - 0044
Empress Henrietta's Waltz. - 0045
Empress Henrietta's Waltz, - 0046
Air from Masaniello, - 0047
March from Masaniello, - 0048
March from Moses in Egypt, - 0049
Di Tanti Palpiti,Kinlock of Kinlock, - 0050
Duke of Reichstadt's Waltz, . - 0051
Cracovienne, - 0052
Swiss Waltz Concluded, Washington's March, - 0053
Look out upon the stars, There's nae luck, - 0054
Cachucha, - 0055
Swiss Waltz, - 0056 |