Crooners, wailers, shouters, balladeers - some of our greatest pop vocalists have poured their hearts and souls into the musical gems of the Great American Songbook. They sang in nightclubs and concert halls, on television and in films, and left us a legacy of recordings still in play today. Their interpretations entertained us, moved us to tears, and wove lyrics and music into the fabric of our lives, making us see ourselves in these quintessentially American songs. This folio features 100 of these classics by Louis Armstrong (Hello Dolly * What a Wonderful World), Tony Bennett (I Left My Heart in San Francisco), Rosemary Clooney (Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep), Nat "King" Cole (Route 66), Bing Crosby (True Love), Doris Day (Bewitched), Ella Fitzgerald (How High the Moon), Judy Garland (Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody), Dean Martin (Everybody Loves Somebody), Frank Sinatra (Young at Heart), Barbra Streisand (People), Mel Torme (Heart and Soul), and many, many more.

The Viola da Gamba Society Thematic Index of Music for Viols (ed. Gordon Dodd), 1980-92 (and continuing), is composer-based. The present volume initiates a companion project to catalogue manuscripts containing consort music. The editors are all highly experienced in the field and have newly examined all sources. Volume 1 features over 50 MSS whose copyists or owners are known: Bing, Hutton, Jenkins, Le Strange, Lilly, Merro, North. As well as a detailed inventory of every book (with anonymous work identified where possible), the descriptions include information on date, size, binding, paper, rastra, watermarks, collations, scripts, inscriptions and provenance, together with bibliographical references. Brief notes on the owners and copyists are provided. Of particular importance is the inclusion of facsimiles of all hands. Also included is a comprehensive study and illustration of watermarks by Robert Thompson (serving for the whole series). With some printed catalogues such as the British Library and Christ Church, Oxford, now nearly 100 years old, this new and comprehensive study will be an invaluable tool for future research.

Over the course of ten years, legendary young-band composers John O'Reilly and Mark Williams composed and arranged over 100 creative works that correlate with specific pages in their highly successful band method, Accent on Achievement. Alfred Music is now proud to make these arrangements available in a book format that includes 22 full arrangements in each collection.
The Concert Favorites Collection features all original compositions composed in a variety of contemporary styles. Titles: Centurian * The Lost Kingdom * Cardiff Castle * Windstar Overture * Attack of the Cyclops * Knights Kingdom * and 16 others.

This comprehensive collection for all guitarists includes 100 songs in genres from jazz standards, to pop/rock favorites, Motown masterpieces and movie music, to traditional tunes, country numbers and classical pieces. Notation styles include: note-for-note transcriptions (Blue on Black * Give Me One Reason * Sweet Child O' Mine * Wild Thing); Easy Guitar with Notes and TAB (Building a Mystery * Circle of Life * Day Tripper * Fur Elise * Misty * Torn * Walk This Way); Easy Guitar (Boot Scootin' Boogie * I Shot the Sheriff * My Favorite Things * Unchained Melody); Chord Melody Guitar (Alman * Bourree * Estudio); Fingerstyle Guitar (Amazing Grace * Greensleeves * My Heart Will Go On); and Guitar Riffs (Angie * Brown Eyed Girl * Here Comes the Sun * Layla * My Girl); and more! Essential for every player!

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:
Introduction. Kate Van Orden
Printing the 'New Music'. Tim Carter
Elite Books, Popular Readers, and the Curious Hundred Year History of the Liber Usualis. Katherine Bergeron
Public Music in Private Spaces: Piano-Vocal Scores and the Domestication of Opera. Thomas Christensen
Alban Berg Remembers Emil Hertzka: Composer and Publisher Between Real and Ideal. Robert Holzer
Orlando di Lasso, Composer and Print Entrepreneur. James Haar
Authors and Anonyms: Recovering the Anonymous Subject in Cinquecento Vernacular Objects. Martha Feldman
Enterprise and Identity: Black Music, Theater, and Print Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago. Thomas Bauman
Bénigne de Bacilly and the Recueil des plus beaux vers, qui ont esté mis en chant of 1661. Lisa Perella
Cheap Print and Street Songs Following the Vespres Lyonnaise. Kate Van Orden
Afterword. Roger Chartier

(Fake Book). You don't have to be from below the Mason-Dixon line to enjoy this primo collection of nearly 250 Dixieland tunes: Ain't Misbehavin' * Alexander's Ragtime Band * Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home * California, Here I Come * Dinah * Down by the Riverside * Georgia on My Mind * Hard Hearted Hannah (The Vamp of Savannah) * Honeysuckle Rose * I'm Gonna Sit Right down and Write Myself a Letter * It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) * Jelly Roll Blues * Lazy River * Makin' Whoopee * My Baby Just Cares for Me * Nobody Knows You When You're down and Out * Puttin' on the Ritz * St. Louis Blues * Smile * Stompin' at the Savoy * Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger) * When the Saints Go Marching In * and many more. All the Real Books feature accurate arrangements in the famous easy-to-read, hand-written notation and comb-binding.

(Sing in the Barbershop Quartet). These great collections let men sing four-part a cappella harmony with a professionally recorded barbershop quartet. The books include TTBB parts and the CDs feature full performances. Just turn on the CD, open the book, pick your part, and sing along Songs in this Christmas edition include: Do You Hear What I Hear * (There's No Place Like) Home for the Holidays * I'll Be Home for Christmas * It's Beginning to Look like Christmas * Jingle Bell Rock * Little Saint Nick * We Need a Little Christmas * White Christmas.

Samuel Babcock was an active Boston-area composer who made a significant contribution to the repertory of American psalmody. Best known for his tunebook, "Middlesex Harmony, " Babcock composed extended and plain psalm tunes, set pieces, fuging tunes, and anthems, and frequently used three-part vocal textures. He uniquely combined elements of both traditional and newer Methodist styles of psalmody. This edition includes 75 works known to be by Babcock, plus six of unknown attribution.

(Piano Solo Composer Collection). 15 modern classics from the iconic pop songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, expertly arranged for piano solo. Includes: Alfie * Do You Know the Way to San Jose * A House Is Not a Home * I Say a Little Prayer * The Look of Love * Magic Moments * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * This Guy's in Love with You * What the World Needs Now Is Love * and more.

(E-Z Play Today). Better reinforce that music stand This book has 260 must-know old-time favorites in our famous E-Z Play Today notation with the note names printed on each note. This amazing collection includes: Ain't We Got Fun? * All Through the Night * Alouette * Amazing Grace * America, the Beautiful * Arkansas Traveler * Auld Lang Syne * Aura Lee * Ave Maria * Battle Hymn of the Republic * A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Bell) * Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home * Blue Danube Waltz * Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?) * Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie * Canon in D * C.C. Rider * Church in the Wildwood * (Oh, My Darling) Clementine * Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone) * Cripple Creek * Danny Boy * (I Wish I Was In) Dixie * The Entertainer * For He's a Jolly Good Fellow * Fur Elise * Give My Regards to Broadway * Good Night Ladies * Greensleeves * Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here * Hava Nagila (Let's Be Happy) * Home on the Range * Indiana (Back Home Again in Indiana) * Kum Ba Yah * Let Me Call You Sweetheart * Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis * My Country, 'Tis of Thee (America) * Ode to Joy * Oh Susanna * The Star Spangled Banner * Take Me Out to the Ball Game * Tarantella * Wayfaring Stranger * Yankee Doodle * and more

This thematic examination of Britten's operas focuses on the way that ideology is presented on stage. To watch or listen is to engage with a vivid artistic testament to the ideological world of mid-twentieth-century Britain. But it is more than that, too, because in many ways Britten's operas continue to proffer a diagnosis of certain unresolved problems in our own time. Only rarely, as in Peter Grimes, which shows the violence inherent in all forms of social and psychological identification, does Britten unmistakably call into question fundamental precepts of his contemporary ideology. This has not, however, prevented some writers from romanticizing Britten as a quiet revolutionary. This book argues, in contrast, that his operas, and some interpretations of them, have obscured a greater social and philosophical complicity that it is timely - if at the same time uncomfortable - for his early twenty-first-century audiences to address.

(Fake Book). An amazing collection of over 300 songs especially for vocalists, including: Aguas De Marco (Waters of March) * Almost like Being in Love * Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home * Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy * Brazil * Bridge over Troubled Water * C'est Si Bon (It's So Good) * Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend * Down with Love * For Once in My Life * Getting to Know You * Happy Talk * Harlem Nocturne * Hello, Dolly * On Broadway * On Green Dolphin Street * Piano Man * Puttin' on the Ritz * Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head * Send in the Clowns * Sing * Sit down You're Rockin' the Boat * Smooth Operator * Sunrise, Sunset * You're the Cream in My Coffee * and more.

Stephen Warbeck's Oscar-winning music from the hit film Shakespeare in Love has been skillfully arranged by Tony Osbourne into a four-movement suite for intermediate string ensemble. The suite perfectly encapsulates all the passion, romance and wit of this delightful love story, which traces the footsteps of the young Shakespeare. With an exciting opening, sighing love-themes and two rhythmic dances, which capture the atmosphere of the vibrant Elizabethan court, this contrasted suite will stir players' and audiences' imagination and take flight.

Specifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. Great for individual or classroom use. Teaches the basics of swing style in a step-by-step approach using well-known songs. Improvisation is made easy starting with simple 2-measure phrases. Scales and basic theory are introduced in a simple and easy to understand approach. 2 CD's are included with recordings of all exercises and arrangements. Other features: 7 full band arrangements, sample solos, jazz history and people.

Specifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. Great for individual or classroom use. Teaches the basics of swing style in a step-by-step approach using well-known songs. Improvisation is made easy starting with simple 2-measure phrases. Scales and basic theory are introduced in a simple and easy to understand approach. 2 CD's are included with recordings of all exercises and arrangements. Other features: 7 full band arrangements, sample solos, jazz history and people.

Specifically designed to teach jazz basics to students with 1 or 2 years playing experience, but with no prior experience playing jazz. Great for individual or classroom use. Teaches the basics of swing style in a step-by-step approach using well-known songs. Improvisation is made easy starting with simple 2-measure phrases. Scales and basic theory are introduced in a simple and easy to understand approach. 2 CD's are included with recordings of all exercises and arrangements. Other features: 7 full band arrangements, sample solos, jazz history and people.