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"With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he's explored in previous novels"--Back cover.
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A great collection to take along to the campfire! 60 folk songs, including: Amazing Grace * The Blue Tail Fly (Jimmy Crack Corn) * Buffalo Gals * Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie * Camptown Races * (Oh, My Darling) Clementine * Down in the Valley * For He's a Jolly Good Fellow * Give Me That Old Time Religion * Go Tell Aunt Rhody * Go, Tell It on the Mountain * Good Night Ladies * Home on the Range * I've Been Working on the Railroad * Kumbaya * Little...
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This is a delightful collection of Japanese children's songs with lyrics, sheet music and cultural notes. Simple, singable, and engaging, the traditional songs of Japanese children combine the unique charm of Japan with the universal appeal of children's music everywhere. Some of the fifteen songs in this collection are current throughout Japan. Others are little known outside a small area. All have deep roots in history and tradition. Several are...
4) Korean Folk Songs Collection (Songbook): 24 Traditional Folk Songs for Intermediate-Level Piano Solo
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Features intermediate-level solo arrangements of 24 songs in the Korean tradition. With performance notes, background info on each piece, and exquisite illustrations, this is an inspiring collection of timeless melodies. Songs include: Arirang * Boat Song * Cricket * Flowers * The Gate * Han River * Harvest * Lullaby * Waterfall * Yearning * and more.
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This original collection presents more than 20 popular folk songs that have been specially arranged for beginning guitarists. The timeless melodies are supplemented with a helpful tutorial on guitar basics that offers tips on identifying the strings, tuning, and basic chord patterns and strums. These arrangements of Skip to My Lou, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Oh! Susanna, Down in the Valley, Barbara Allen, and other tunes include advice...
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This series provides an unplugged and pared-down approach to your favorite songs just the chords and the lyrics, with nothing fancy. These easy-to-play arrangements are designed for both aspiring and professional musicians. Includes nearly 40 folk favorites: All I Really Want to Do * Annie's Song * Blowin' in the Wind * Cat's in the Cradle * Jamaica Farewell * Puff the Magic Dragon * Scarborough Fair * This Land Is Your Land * and more!
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This sequel to the Lomaxes' widely acclaimed American Ballads and Folk Songs includes melodies and words for tunes from all parts of the country. Songs include spirituals, hollers, game songs, lullabies, courting songs, chain-gang work songs, Cajun airs, breakdowns, and many more. Judith Tick, a scholar and award-winning author, provides a new fact-filled Introduction; notes on tune origins, two indexes, and an extensive bibliography round out this...
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"In Hear My Sad Story, Richard Polenberg describes the historical events that led to the writing of many famous American folk songs that served as touchstones for generations of American musicians, lyricists, and folklorists. Those events, which took place from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries, often involved tragic occurrences: murders, sometimes resulting from love affairs gone wrong; desperate acts borne out of poverty and unbearable...
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"The Besom Maker and Other Country Folk Songs" is a collection of traditional English countryside songs first published in 1888. The songs of this collection are such as would have been sung in the fields and meadows for generations, and perhaps are still known to some. With beautiful illustrations and complete lyrics and sheet music, this volume is not to be me missed by those with an interest in learning and playing traditional English songs. The...
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"Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886)" by Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington contessa Martinengo-Cesaresco. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost...
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A collection of nine classic Breton folk-songs for voice and piano. Originally published in 1909 and composed by Liza Lehmann. Songs include: Sir Fanch and the Fairy, I dreamt my love was singing, The Ruby Necklace, The Nightingale, No candle was there and no fire, The Spinning-Wheel, L'Ankou (The Death Cart), King Gralon's Daughter, St. Peter's Night. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed...
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A wonderful collection of 22 bohemian folk songs originally composed by Vincent Pisek. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
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Birds are beloved for their song and have featured in our own music for centuries. Singing Like Larks opens a rare window onto birdlife, folklore, traditional verse, and song writing, especially in the British Isles.
In this charming volume, folklore, verse, and nature writing combine to explore why birds appear in so many folk songs, with song lyrics, history, and anecdotes drawing on a rich heritage. Ornithological folk songs are themselves something...
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Edvard Grieg's collection of 44 Norwegian folk songs and dances, originally published in 1895. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
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Marcella Sembrich's collection of favourite folk songs from all around the globe. Features folk songs from America, England, Russia, Italy, Turkey, China, France and many many more. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
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Scorebook with 3 classic old-time Dutch folk songs, originally published in 1929. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.
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A grossly inaccurate "memoir" about Canadian folk legends.
Henry Adam Svec has been pushing boundaries in Canadian folklore since he unearthed songs by CFL players in Library and Archives Canada, thereby thrusting himself into the scene-and the media spotlight. Those spartan poems are finally included in this anthology, in addition to the fruits of his subsequent expeditions, but there is much more besides, including honest accounts of the folklorist's...
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A fantastic collection of 6 Tuscan folk songs originally published in 1886. Songs include: A Streamlet Full of Flowers, From Far Away, When I Am Dead, A Flight of Clouds, Oh! Happy Are the Blind, Nearest and Dearest. Classic Folk Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of folk music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students...
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