30 greatest songs of George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin, PDF, 144 pages
Content:
All the Livelong Day
The Back Bay Polka
Bess You is My Woman
(I’ve Got) Beginner’s Luck
By Strauss
A Foggy Day
For You, for Me, for Evermore
I Can’t Be Bothered Now
I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’
I Love to Rhyme
I Was Doing All Right
It Ain’t Necessarily So
The Jolly Tar and the Milk Maid
Just Another Rhumba
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Love is Here to Stay
Love Walked In
My Man’s Gone Now
Nice Work if You Can Get It
Oh Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess
Promenade (piano solo)
The Real American Folk Song (is a Rag)
Shall We Dance
Slap That Bass
Sophia
Summertime
There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
They All Laughed
They Can’t Take That Away From Me
A Woman is a Sometime Thing
Thirty songs from Ira & George. The book is really good. So if you like to go above the simple, play-along-with-the-chords versions, you can play it like George wrote it. It’s appealing to be able to play like a forties lounge pianist – affective bass and big accessible applesauce chords. It’s authentic too.
All you accept to do is add a bit of swing. Of course, the cape and tip bottle are optional. “They Can’t Take That Away From Me” is the quintessential American reminisce. In a assertive way, Ira’s contemplative lyric – “Our affair will not end on a affecting note. Though by tomorrow you’re gone” – is evocative of Brazilian bossa nova lyrics. Both admit the assured abortion of adulation but focus on the amnesic that remains. This one song abandoned makes it account putting the book in the piano bench. Unfortunately there’s absolutely a lot of Porgie & Bess. Too abounding “Summertime” in antecedent lives soured me. Save me from 1930’s New York liberals in “I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin.” All in all, it’s a absolute experience. But unless you’re abundant at account charts, be able to advance it out. Once you’ve abstruse your one or two Gershwin tunes, sit aback and enjoy. Nod your arch and smile if anyone drops a blade in the tip glass.
These songs and one famous piano solo have the original excellent sheet music piano arrangements. Some very famous, some less well-known, and quite a bargain, with 30 pieces in all.
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