Explore how the traditional parlor style guitar backups used during the golden age of the Old Time Music string band performance style were further developed by guitarists during the Depression years of the 1930s.The genesis of those developments lies principally in the techniques popularized by the Carter Family and Jimmie Rodgers on their recordings that featured the use of the flat pick instead…

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 th…

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 soun…

Arranged For Classical Guitar. Par MARRINGTON MARK. Cette anthologie contient des dix-neuf des plus populaires classiques Gilbert et Sullivan disposées dans les versions sight-readable facilement pour débutant à intermédiaires guitaristes classiques. Tous les favoris sont ici, allant de ballades sentimentales telles que ' Little Buttercup ', ' Willow, Tit-saule ' et 'Il grandit une petite fleur', …

From the author of Mel Bay's best selling Learn to Play Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele and Favorite Fingerstyle Solos for Ukulele we are proud to present Fingerstyle Duets for Ukulele. This book and companion audio offer 21great songs arranged in 18 duets for fingerstyle Ukulele. The songs come from around the world: European waltzes classic Hawaiian songs folksongs Victorian parlor pieces and …