Stephen Collins Foster: Sixty Favorite Songs

by Joanna R. Smolko and Steve Saunders

Sixty of American composer Stephen Collins Foster's (1826-1864) best-loved songs in the composer's original piano arrangements with added guitar chords. The texts have been revised to capture the spirit Foster intended, eliminating obsolete or objectionable lyrics. A detailed introduction by musicologist StevenSaunders describes both Foster's biography and the traditions surrounding nineteenth-century popular songs. Well-known Foster songs like Camptown...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786681489
• ISBN13: 9780786681488
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.4" x 8.5"