E-Z Play Today Volume 17-34 of your favourite songs are featured in this second edition of Fireside Singalong including: Beautiful Dreamer Down in the Valley I've Been Working on the Railroad My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean Shine On Harvest Moon Take Me out to the Ball Game When Irish Eyes Are Smiling and more. The E-Z Play Today series for Organs Pianos and Keyboards features easy-to-play large notes with note names along with named chords.

This amazing Big Book features over 75 German songs: folk songs waltzes holiday tunes polkas art songs arias drinking songs and more! Favourites include: Ach Du Lieber Augustin • Ave Maria • Bist Du Bei Mir • O Tannenbaum • Pizzicato Polka • Ständchen • Vilja Lied and dozens more! All arranged for Piano Voice and Guitar with English translations included alongside the original German lyrics to help understanding and give the performers a choice. The arrangements are simple so anyone can learn them quickly or even sight-read them as performance requests. With so many good songs inside The Big Book Of German Songs is sure to contain something for you whatever the occasion!

Paperback-The music of Hawaii is surely among the most evocative in the world. Using 20 songs presented as sheet music and original audio this highly original book explores the roots of Hawaii's musical culture as well as its far-reachinginfluences.The story of how a few tiny Pacific islands blazed a musical trail across the American mainland and beyond is a uniquely fascinating one.Hawaii gave the world the slide Guitar and the Ukulele not tomention some players of quite dazzling virtuosity.Far from peddling the dreamy mood music of popular perception the best Hawaiian musicians soon fused their traditional stylings with with jazz blues mainstream andcountry music genres.The compliment was returned and - from blues and vaudeville to the Nashville sound and the dance band era - Hawaiian music left its indelible mark on the world's popular music.Presented inmelody line lyrics and chords format with Guitar and Ukulele chord boxes.

Pieces are inspired by Vietnamese folk music. The eight beginning bars of Nostalgia in natural harmonics emulate the unichord a Vietnamese single-stringed instrument. The two movements of Two Dreams were written ten yearsapart and triggered by the musical sounds the composer heard upon waking from his actual dreams. The whole piece is polytonal but based on Vietnamese folk tonalities.

Brief tuneful melodies arranged for intermediate flutists and guitarists from early American (1817) popular music. Written in standard notation these delightful arrangements feature collections of popular melodies from that eraas well as airs and dances. In keeping with performance practice of the traditional music played during this time these arrangements are organized into sets of pieces as they may have been performed during this era. The setsinclude jigs slow airs and marches as well as melodies that were popular from the continent. These arrangements are appropriate both for background music as well as public concert performance. The arrangements are derived froma book of flute melodies entitled ?Riley?s Flute Melodies.? Published in 1816 and 1817 this book was possibly used as jazz musicians use lead sheets to develop spontaneous arrangements of pieces depending upon the occasion andthe musicians at hand. The guitar arrangements were modeled upon existing guitar practice during that time and use idiomatic guitar devices such as pizzicato and harmonics to provide an imaginative underpinning for the melodies.Many of the arrangements give equal treatment to both the guitar as a harmonic and melodic instrument.

Specially transcribed and arranged for beginning and intermediate guitar players this anthology of 49 classics includes such perennial favourites as 'Beautiful Dreamer ' 'Amazing Grace ' 'Aura Lee ' 'On Top of Old Smoky ' 'Blue Tail Fly ' 'Camptown Races ' 'Dixie's Land ' 'Yankee Doodle ' 'Sweet Betsy from Pike ' 'John Henry ' and many more.

Peter Penhallow presents fifteen American folk songs arranged to be accessible for the beginner guitarist complete with a glossary of terms a guide to music notation and a CD of examples. Get started by playing the music you love. Each of these wonderful folk and traditional favourites includes useful performance notes to help you develop the correct styles and techniques. Each song also boasts a variety of tracks on the CD featuring accompaniment patterns full performances and split rhythm/lead examples. Before you know it you'll be playing and singing such timeless songs as Down By The Riverside Will The Circle Be Unbroken and ThisLittle Light Of Mine.

38 easy favorites: Barcarolle · Serenata · Poeme · Fascination · Traumerei · Valse Triste · Carnival Of Venice · Humoresque.

Nine Concert Solos For Plectrum Gtr-Here are nine solos for plectrum guitar written with the tradition of the Celtic ballad and Scottish Aire. Many of the solos call for a 7 string guitar but can certainly be played on a 6 string. I have shown alternate notesfor the low 7 string pedal tones in the tablature. The solos give the guitarist an opportunity to play concert settings with a maximum of expression. I have recorded all of the solos and they are available as a free internet download. This book is a sequel to my solo collection entitled 'Guitar Meditations' (MB22029). I have authored both solo collections to address the need for serious compositions for the plectrum guitaristwanting to play in concert or recital. The music in each collection draws from a wide variety of influences and utilizes many contemporary harmonic concepts. I hope you enjoy performing and listening to these solos.

Playford's The Dancing Master is the classic compendium of English country dance tunes. First published in 1651 it went through eighteen editions in almost 80 years. In its day it was the most popular collection of its kind and engendered numerous imitations. The tunes selected by Playford and his successors were taken from many sources and demonstrate the extraordinary richness and vitality of popular melody in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. This book brings together for the first time under one cover 535 tunes and their variants from the eighteen original editions. It provides a fund of musical material for performers whether folk musicians orbaroque instrumentalists and for class and instrumental music teachers. It is also an invaluable reference book for anyone interested in the history of English music.

More than just a collection of folk songs Harry Tuft and Dick Weissman have created an album designed to aid the beginning guitarist in everything from holding the guitar properly to illustrating a large selection of strums and chords along with each song. A complete method for the beginner illustrated with finger positions and fret diagrams as well as notation for each song. Songs include: He'd Got the Whole World in His Hands Down in the Valley The Cuckoo 500 Miles Greensleeves Man of Constant Sorrow Walking Bass This Train and more. Performed by Harry Tuft guitar Accompaniment: Dick Weissman guitar Judy Roderick vocals