SKU: LO.30-1732H
UPC: 000308061062.
Play parties are an American phenomenon with roots in children's games songs from the British Isles. They are song, dance and game all in one. Play parties came about in rural America during the second half of the 19th century. Many of these authentic folk songs are still popular today. This is a one-of-a-kind collection, based on research and interviews of people who actually performed and attended play parties as children. Also included in this terrific resource are the movement instructions for each play party.
SKU: MB.31103M
ISBN 9781513468792. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Adam Granger self-published the first edition of Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar in 1979. A second edition was published in 1994. Now Mel Bay Publications presents the third edition of the book.
This 236-page book is the most extensive and best-documented collection of fiddle tunes for the flatpicking guitar player in existence, and includes reels, hoedowns, hornpipes, rags, breakdowns, jigs and slip-jigs, presented in Southern, Northern, Irish, Canadian, Texas and Old-time styles.
There are 508 fiddle tunes referenced under 2500 titles and alternate titles. The titles are fully indexed, making the book doubly valuable as a reference book and a source book.
In this new edition, all tunes are typeset, instead of being handwritten as they were in the previous editions, making the tabs easier to read.
The tunes in Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are presented in Easytab, a streamlined tablature notation system designed by Adam specifically for fiddle tunes.
The book comes with a link which gives access to mp3 recordings by Adam of all 508 tunes, each played once at a moderate tempo, with rhythm on one channel and lead on the other.
Also included in Grangerâ??s Fiddle Tunes for Guitar are instructions for reading Easytab, descriptions of tune types presented in the book, and primers on traditional flatpicking and rhythm guitar. Additionally, there are sections on timing, ornamentation, technique, and fingering, as well as information on tune sources and a history of the collection.
Mel Bay also offers The Granger Collection, by Bill Nicholson, the same 508 tunes in standard music notation.
SKU: SU.80300199
Adorable is the only word for this parlor piece from the 1860’s, with its rumtity-tum piano accompaniment and operatic flourishes for the singers. The two choral parts, like true friends, are sometimes parallel, sometimes divergent, each maintaining her own character and taking it in turns to shine. Italian or English. SA and piano. Easy-Medium. SS or SA, piano Published by: Treble Clef Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies.
SKU: SU.24010010
A three movement suite (Halcyon Hill - Earthly Heaven - In the Parlor) commissioned in 2010 by the Center for Home Movies for the 1938 silent film Our Day by Wallace Kelly of Lebanon, Kentucky. Mp4 of the silent film can be sent upon request to the composer for any scheduled performances of the complete work.Also available... Set of Parts (cat. #24010011)Oboe, Clarinet, Vibraphone, Harp, Piano, Strings Duration: 17’ Composed: 2010 Published by: Mossgrove Music (BMI).
SKU: SU.80300224
Our latest contribution to the simple does not have to mean stupid niche. First published in 1885, these settings are modest in scope, yet imaginatively constructed. With considerable rhythmic energy, independence of the two voices, harmonic variety, and interesting accompaniments, they transcend the idiom of the Victorian parlor ballad which they superficially resemble. SA & Piano; English. Easy. SA, piano Published by: Treble Clef Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies.
SKU: SU.24010011
A three movement suite (Halcyon Hill - Earthly Heaven - In the Parlor) commissioned in 2010 by the Center for Home Movies for the 1938 silent film Our Day by Wallace Kelly of Lebanon, Kentucky. Mp4 of the silent film can be sent upon request to the composer for any scheduled performances of the complete work.Also availalbe... Full Score (cat. #24010010)Oboe, Clarinet, Vibraphone, Harp, Piano, Strings Duration: 17’ Composed: 2010 Published by: Mossgrove Music (BMI).
SKU: MB.30945
ISBN 9781513472744. 8.75X11.75 inches.
This collection of 19th and early 20th century airs and ballads is a celebration of American music that is ideal for guitar recitals and encores. Written in standard notation only, the pieces are arranged and fingered for ease of sight-reading and specifically designed to exploit the musicality of the classical guitar.The book features arrangements of the antebellum song, ôDarling Nelly Grayö by Benjamin Hanby, popular Civil War-era songs by Stephen Foster and other period songwriters, plus parlor music favorites like Edward MacDowell�s ôTo a Wild Roseö, Ethelbert Nevin�s ôMighty Lak� a Roseö, and ôAura Leeö, a melody by George R. Poulton that would resurface nearly a hundred years later as ôLove Me Tenderö.á.
SKU: BR.OB-5271-12
ISBN 9790004331873. 10 x 12.5 inches.
Sospiri is one of those brief, highly atmospheric studies that abound in practically all music publishers' catalogues around 1900. This piece, however, owes its survival beyond its time of origin only in part to the unbroken esteem enjoyed by Edward Elgar. The piece contains a number of striking features and is far superior to the mass-produced, sentimental parlor pieces of the time.
SKU: PR.44641326L
UPC: 680160643349. 11 x 14 inches.
In January, 2005 at Stetson University, the TARAB Cello Ensemble performed a new music concert that was suberb and exhilarating. To the audience's dismay, the ensemble had no encore prepared (do any even exist?). I later found out that the group was comprised of recent Eastman School of Music graduates, many of whom I had conducted during the end of my academic tenure in Rochester. I was struck by the ensemble's determination to remain together to make music and, with their blessings, set out to rectify this omission in their repertoire. BEGUINE AGAIN is a Latin-American echo consisting of three choruses (the third becomes a little mixed up—as if the dancers momentarily part ways...) plus a Coda, and is roughtly four minutes in duration. The piece was stolen— and extended— from an excerpt of my 12-year-old PARLOR PIECES (1993); the score was completed in May of 2005 in Ormond-by-the-Sea, Florida.
SKU: SU.80300223
Our latest contribution to the simple does not have to mean stupid niche. First published in 1885, these settings are modest in scope, yet imaginatively constructed. With considerable rhythmic energy, independence of the two voices, harmonic variety, and interesting accompaniments, they transcend the idiom of the Victorian parlor ballad which they superficially resemble. SA & Piano; English. Easy.SA, piano Published by: Treble Clef Music Minimum order quantity: 8 copies.
SKU: SU.80300221
SKU: SU.80300226
SKU: MB.30762M
ISBN 9781513465692. 8.75x11.75 inches.
Civil War Suite for Classical Guitar is a collection of ten Civil War-era songs arranged in standard notation for the advanced solo classical guitarist. The suite includes music from the Confederacy and the Union, along with soldier's songs, parlor songs, and an African American spiritual. The sequencing of the pieces is designed to create a musical narrative, with songs grouped in a manner that shows various perspectives of the war before ultimately celebrating Union victory. Throughout the suite, extensive passages feature delightful special effects that emulate period instruments such as the banjo, snare drum, and fiddle. Includes access to online audio.
