For Me and My Gal and Other Favorite Song Hits, 1915-1917
For Me and My Gal and Other Favorite Song Hits, 1915-1917

Author: David A. Jasen

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 0486281272

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31 vintage song hits from the World War I era, reprinted from original editions, complete with all lyrics, full piano arrangements and reproductions of the original covers. Introduction to the period and brief biographies of the songwriters

American Art Songs of the Turn of the Century
American Art Songs of the Turn of the Century

Author: Paul Sperry

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780486267494

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42 of the best songs of a halcyon period in American music, richly varied in mood, sentiment and musical character, including classics by Edward MacDowell, Charles Ives, Amy Beach, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Oley Speaks, Ethelbert Nevin, John Philip Sousa, Charles Wakefield Cadman and 14 other composers. Reprinted from rare original song sheets in full piano and vocal arrangements.

Ragtime rediscoveries
Ragtime rediscoveries

Author: Trebor Jay Tichenor

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1979-01-01

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780486237763

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Features 64 works from the golden age of rag, most long unavailable, including rare works by James Scott, Cy Seymour, E.J. Stark, Bob Hoffman, Harry L. Cook, Max Hoffmann, and 51 other composers, among them several women. Original cover, too.

"Solace" and other short works for piano

Author: Scott Joplin

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9780486416816

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Eleven lively pieces by great ragtime composer include "Great Crush Collision," "Combination March," "Harmony Club Waltz," "Augustan Club Waltz," "March Majestic," "Bethena," "Rosebud," 3 more. Reproductions of original sheet music covers.

Civil War Songs and Ballads for Guitar
Civil War Songs and Ballads for Guitar

Author: Jerry Silverman

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780486419022

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Forty-one favorites: songs to rally the troops, ballads of sorrow, even some of hope and humor. Includes Marching Through Georgia, The Battle Hymn of the Republic, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Go Down, Moses, many others. Each song printed as a guitar solo and also as a "lead sheet" with accompaniment and complete lyrics.

"A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"

Author: David A. Jasen

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780486294216

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Original sheet music and covers for 40 beloved favorites, including After You've Gone, How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows, Rock-a-Bye Your Baby, and 36 other Golden Oldies. For sing-alongs, family get-togethers, parties, and other events.

The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library
The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library

Author: Ellen Luchinsky

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-23

Total Pages: 1384

ISBN-13: 1135659265

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The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.