Parlor Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

Ten Songs Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation & Tablature-Arrangements of 10 classic standards complete with demos on CD. Songs include: Alexander's Ragtime Band £ The Glow Worm £ Paper Doll £ Swanee £ Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger) £ and more.

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, including amateur and semi-professional concerts. This classical guitar solo collection for the intermediate to advanced player offers nine engaging and lyrical European and North American favorites of this bygone era. All of the solos are presented in standard notation only and played on authentic reproductions of period instruments on the book?s online companion recording. Author Joseph Mayes plays works by well-known guitarist-composers Carulli, Coste and Giuliani as well as the lesser-known but deserving ?Kathleen Mavoureen?Romanza? by Frederick N. Crouch arranged by Charles de Janon, and Felix Arndt?s ?Nola,? one of the era?s most popular ragtime piano themes, here transcribed and arranged by William Foden and the author. Includes access to online audio.

for Fingerstyle Guitar-This is a colleciton of 47 favorite 19th century American songs arranged for fingerstyle guitar from Glenn Weiser's recent CD My Old Kentucky Home. Here you'll find Stephen Foster's famous compositions and other parlor songs African-American spirituals Civil War anthems familiar hymns and 1890s hits. These priceless legacies of our national heritage form much of the soundtrack of American history: ?Oh! Susanna? was on the lips of every Forty-Niner during the California Gold Rush Harriet Tubman sang ?Swing Low Sweet Chariot ? on her deathbed and Abraham Lincoln wept the first time he heard ?The Battle Hymn of the Replublic.? Nowguitarists can play these and many more in new beautiful solo arrangements.

A Personal Collection of Fingerstyle Guitar Music. This collection of fingerstyle guitar pieces is a voyage from 18th century country dance tunes to 19th century parlor or domestic guitar music, to music that found its way to traditional rural players in the U.S., to slack key players in Hawaii, and from there to Doc Rossi's own music. Along the way, you'll explore some of the most important contemporary guitar tunings.

Backpocket Old-Time Songbook is considered a classic. In addition to song lyrics musical notation and guitar chords it is packed with hints on singing in the right key singing with an instrument transposing your chords usinga capo plus a short history of old-time songs minstrel songs dance tunes knockdown tunes ballads parlor songs and gospel songs. Includes numerous vintage photos. Includes words music and history of: Angelina Baker Bald-Headed End of the Broom Bravest Cowboy Bully of the Town Cindy Cluck Old Hen Come Take a Trip in My Airship Cotton-Eyed Joe Cumberland Gap Darling Nelly Gray Diamond Joe Dixie Don’t You Hear Jerusalem Moan? GroundHog Hard Times Come Again No More I’m Gwine Back to Dixie I’m the Man Who Rose the Mule Around the World Jordan is a Hard Road to Travel Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy Kingdom Coming Little Rosewood Casket Little LogCabin in the Lane Little Stream of Whiskey Milwaukee Blues Mole in the Ground Oh Them Golden Slippers Oh My Little Darling Old Maid’s Last Hope Pap’s Billy Goat Pretty Saro Rambling Boy Shady Grove Shall We Gather atthe River? Sourwood Mountain Sugar Babe Watermelon on the Vine Wild Bill Jones Wildwood Flower Wind and Rain Yellow Rose of Texas.