Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs Review

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Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs ReviewTunes from the gay 90s (that's 1890s, and no, that's not what Gay meant), spirituals, folk songs, Civil War songs, lovely old American hymns (stolen from other sources, yes, but here printed in their American versions).
The editors weren't trying to create authentic arrangements, so some of the chords are a hipper than would have been played 100 years ago -- but nothing that works against the spirit of the music, nothing jarringly modernistic.
The exceptions to the 'non-modernistic' rule are the arrangements by the estimable George Pullen Jackson from his Spiritual Folk Songs of Early America. These are full of major sevens and ninths, and Pullen's use of dissonance is too advanced to sound old-fashioned. His are fine arrangements nonetheless, and could easily be simplified to achieve a more "period" sound.
The book is prejudiced towards piano players. Guitar chords are not always printed, and when they are they tend to be much simpler and less imaginative than the piano accompaniments. Piano parts are not condescending, but not difficult either: interesting enough that a professional can play them without rewriting and fixing, easy enough that an amateur can master them with a little practice.
There is a companion volume, Fireside Book of American Folk Songs.Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs Overview

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