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Dorothea Barth is a Dutch-American poet, writer, and musician. She was born in Amsterdam and  moved to the United States when she was nine years old. The dictionary soon became her friend, as she sought  the definitions of new and peculiar words of a language she would grow to love. In high school, she became fond of diagramming sentences.

She always welcomed the opportunity to write, though writing was not her major at Stanford University. Her violin was her closest friend, and she could not  imagine any other pursuit than music.

Little did she know then that when it became time to enter the real world, she would work with words: as a technical writer, editor, and proposal write.  Not the kind of work where you wait for a visit from the Muse, but it paid the bills and eventually allowed her to purchase a nice old violin.

She combines her creative writing and musical talents, often writing about music--whether it be an essay, interview, or poem. She finds that being a musician is helpful in writing poetry, especially since her preference is for metered verse.

Dorothea Barth has arranged six volumes of Celtic music for two instruments. She has also composed three volumes of original instrumental music.  Recorded samples of some of these arrangements and compositions appear in the Celtic Music Galleries on this website. The sheet music for these attractive and musically engaging anthologies is available for purchase.

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