A Family Treasury of Pop Sheet Music

72 Popular Standard and Traditional Songs-Brighten your household with music! Playing music in the home fosters family memories that last a lifetime. With sheet music for nearly dozens of familiar songs the “Family Treasury” songbook series will inspire themusic makers in every family to play and sing more often. Every generation will enjoy playing their favorites among the hundreds of pages in these collectible volumes.Songs: All I Have to Do Is Dream • At Last •Bridge Over Troubled Water • Cat's in the Cradle • Danny's Song • Dream a Little Dream of Me • Evergreen • Great Balls of Fire • I Can See Clearly Now • I Got Rhythm • Just a Closer Walkwith Thee • Killing Me Softly with His Song • La Vie en Rose • The Lion Sleeps Tonight • Moondance • Theme from New York New York • On the Street Where You Live • People • The Rose• Someone to Watch Over Me • Summertime Blues • This Masquerade • Up Where We Belong • When the Saints Go Marching In • The Wind Beneath My Wings • You Light Up My Life • and more.

This book presents fretted Dulcimer arrangements of 58 Stephen Collins Foster classics.Each song is written as a melody line in standard notation with Dulcimer tablature beneath plus complete lyrics historicalnotes and suggested Guitar chords. Cover graphics from the original nineteenth century sheet music publications lend grace and authenticity and songwriters and music historians will find much interest in this book.Thetunings used are DAD DAA DGD and DAA#D. Intended for experienced beginners to intermediate players many of these pieces require a 6 1/2 fret dulcimer and a capo. The author includes an insightful essay on the life ofStephen Foster (1826-1864)-a gifted once successful songwriter whose career decisions and abuse of alcohol lead to personal financial disaster a broken family and an early death. His legacy is a treasury of songsreflecting the social issues and romantic illusions of his time.Contains both well-known and lesser known tunes in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio that contains 33 of the book's 58 tunes.