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: HL.14030951

ISBN 9788759851937. 10.5x14.5x0.423 inches. English.

Work for Guitar. The composer writes: 'The title of this tiny little piece came to me out of my fascination of a picture by the French painter Jean-Francois Millet, entitled L'ANGELUS It features two praying people listening to the evening bells. My Angelus-Bells were later on squeezed into a waltz-like rhythm. The piece was written by request of and is dedicated to David Starobin.'.