Beautiful American Airs and Ballads

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, “Darling Nelly Gray” by Benjamin Hanby, popular Civil War-era songs by Stephen Foster and other period songwriters, plus parlor music favorites like Edward MacDowell’s “To a Wild Rose”, Ethelbert Nevin’s “Mighty Lak’ a Rose”, and “Aura Lee”, a melody by George R. Poulton that would resurface nearly a hundred years later as “Love Me Tender”. 

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Stephen C Foster 1826 -1864)

Just Before the Battle, Mother (George F Root 1820 -1895)

Darling Nelly Gray (B R Hanby 1833 -1867)

Hard Times Come Again No More (Stephen C Foster 1826 -1864)

Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen C Foster 1826 -1864)

Mighty Lak’ a Rose (Ethelbert Nevin 1862 -1901)

Aura Lee (George R Poulton 1828 -1867)

To a Wild Rose (Edward MacDowell 1860 -1908)

Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (Civil War Ballad)

Shady Grove (Appalachian Folk Song)

Land of Rest (Early American Sacred Melody)