Nine Latin American Folk Songs

Nine Latin American Folk Songs
Author: Bruce Trinkley
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457421372

These nine Latin American gems will be a stunning addition to your vocal repertoire. Whether performed in Spanish or English, these masterful arrangements feature sophisticated piano accompaniments and stylish vocal lines which emphasize the dramatic nuances of their delightful texts. Nine wonderful and heartfelt songs, which offer a wide variety of styles and tempos.

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs
Author: John A. Lomax
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 719
Release: 2013-07-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 048631992X

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Nine Latin American Folk Songs (Medium High Voice)

Nine Latin American Folk Songs (Medium High Voice)
Author: Bruce Trinkley
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457421365

These nine Latin American gems will be a stunning addition to your vocal repertoire. Whether performed in Spanish or English, these masterful arrangements feature sophisticated piano accompaniments and stylish vocal lines which emphasize the dramatic nuances of their delightful texts. Titles: * Vuela, suspiro (Fly, My Sighs) * ¿Dónde vas, Alfonso Doce? (Where Do You Go, Alfonso XII?) * A cantar a una niña (When I Sang to a Child) * Mi mamá me aconsejaba (My Mama Advised Me) * Nest rua (On Our Street) * Una tarde fesquita de Mayo (One Cool Afternoon in May) * El Capotín (A Little Rain Hat) * Al pasar por Sevilla (On Visiting Sevilla) * Villancico (Carol)

American Folk Songs for Guitar

American Folk Songs for Guitar
Author: David Nadal
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 048641700X

Specially transcribed and arranged for beginning and intermediate guitar players, this anthology of 49 classics includes such perennial favorites as Beautiful Dreamer, Amazing Grace, Aura Lee, On Top of Old Smoky, Blue Tail Fly, Camptown Races, Dixie's Land, Yankee Doodle, Sweet Betsy from Pike, John Henry, and many more.

Romancing the Folk

Romancing the Folk
Author: Benjamin Filene
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2000
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780807848623

In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo

Ready to Sing . . . Folk Songs

Ready to Sing . . . Folk Songs
Author: Jay Althouse
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2005-05-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457411878

A collection of 10 folk songs arranged for voice and piano in a simple style appropriate for beginning soloists, unison classroom singing, and elementary choral groups. Included are reproducible melody-line song sheets for each song. Easy piano accompaniments strongly support the melody, and vocal tessituras are moderate; most have an octave range. Titles: * Li'l Liza Jane * Siyahamba * Scarborough Fair * De Colores * and Many More!

Thinking about Music from Latin America

Thinking about Music from Latin America
Author: Juan Pablo González
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1498568653

Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. The book addresses such topics as popular music, post-colonialism, women in Latin American music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction through music. It contributes to the development of paradigms of cultural analysis that originated outside of Latin America by testing them in the Latin American musical context, while also exploring how specifically Latin American models can contribute to broader cultural analysis.