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These melodies of Stephen Collins Foster have been freely adapted from the original songs, and will enrich the repertoire of the solo guitar through their colorful variety. These settings appear in standard guitar notation, complete with fingerings. Although conceived principally for interpretation on the classical guitar, many of these pieces also lend themselves well to being played on the steel-string guitar
Old favorites such as Beautiful Dreamer and Oh! Susanna as well as patriotic, plantation, and minstrel songs by the American composer are presented along with reproductions of original covers
A biography of the nineteenth-century American composer.
The Life and Songs of Stephen Foster offers an engaging reassessment of the life, politics, and legacy of the misunderstood father of American music. Once revered the world over, Foster’s plantation songs, like “Old Folks at Home” and “My Old Kentucky Home,” fell from grace in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement due to their controversial lyrics. Foster embraced the minstrel tradition for a brief time, refining it and infusing his songs with sympathy for slaves, before abandoning the genre for respectable parlor music. The youngest child in a large family, he grew up in the shadows of a successful older brother and his president brother-in-law, James Buchanan, and walked a fine l...
In the first biography of Foster in more than sixty years, Ken Emerson makes the man as well as his music come alive.
Stephen Collins Foster penned some of America's most enduring songs. This exquisite book offers stunning piano/vocal arrangements of ten favorites from the Foster library. Mark Hayes adds his touch to this quintessential repertoire for recitals, concerts, and contests. Titles: * Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * Gentle Annie * The Glendy Burk * Hard Times Come Again No More * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * My Old Kentucky Home * Oh! Susanna * Slumber, My Darling * Some Folks
In this wide-ranging study Stephen Foster explores Puritanism in England and America from its roots in the Elizabethan era to the end of the seventeenth century. Focusing on Puritanism as a cultural and political phenomenon as well as a religious movement, Foster addresses parallel developments on both sides of the Atlantic and firmly embeds New England Puritanism within its English context. He provides not only an elaborate critque of current interpretations of Puritan ideology but also an original and insightful portrayal of its dynamism. According to Foster, Puritanism represented a loose and incomplete alliance of progressive Protestants, lay and clerical, aristocratic and humble, who ne...
(P/V/G Composer Collection). The first great American songwriter, Stephen Foster's songs are now part of the American folk tradition. This collection presents 30 of his compositions, plus photos and a new biography. Includes: Beautiful Dreamer * Camptown Races * Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair * My Old Kentucky Home * Oh! Susanna * Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) * more.