19th
Century American
Downloading the Guitar Sheet Music
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In
19th Century America, guitarists, banjo players, composers
and publishers were all very busy producing sheet music
of all kinds for guitar and banjo. From classical compositions,
to jigs, reels, songs, arrangements, instruction books
and even transcriptions from operas for solo guitar, we
are now making much of this forgotten American music for
guitar and banjo available as sheet music. 
We
know very little about the amazing "Mrs. Knoop" except
that she was a very talented and active guitarist, composer and
arranger in the mid 19th Century.
The Flowers Of Andalusia 1850 Rosignol Polka 1850 Carnival Of Venice 1847 The Adieu 1866
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J. C. Smith was a talented guitarist and composer who composed and published many works for guitar in Youngstown, Ohio in the last part of the 19th Century. Many of his publications have elaborate and skillfully done artwork, apparently created by J. C. Smith, and many of these engravings are included with the following sheet music.
American Fantasia (Fantasia
with variations) Au Revoir
Polka Dance Of The
Fairies Greenville
Variations Lightning
Polka Sappho's Reverie Pavanne Of
The Midnight Stars (duet and trio for guitars) Diana's Fantasia (for
two guitars) Download the music of J.C. Smith |
The
American Guitarist - Sweet Home Variations (9
variations)
The Guitar Music Of Justin Holland  Justin
Holland (1819 - 1877) was an African-American classical musician,
guitarist, composer and arranger. It's safe to say that Justin
Holland was the one of the most important American guitarists
of his generation.He was perhaps, the first Black man to make
an important contribution to the classic guitar.Justin Holland was born to free black parents in Norfolk County, Virginia on 26 July 1819, the oldest or second oldest of farmer Exum Holland's three sons and five daughters.The family lived near other free blacks in a neighborhood which also included whites of moderate means who owned a few slave families, and whites without slaves. Tobacco had first been the principle crop in Norfolk County, however over-production, depressed profits,and tobacco's depletion of the soil had forced agricultural diversification; so the Hollands and their neighbors most likely grew corn, cotton, Irish potatoes, grass,or fruits and vegetables as cash crops on small farms. Justin Holland left Virginia for Massachusetts after his parents' deaths in 1833.Justin went to Boston and met Senor Mariano Perez and began the study of the guitar. Another of his music teachers was Simon Knable, a member of Ned Kendall's Brass Band who taught Holland the theory and the art of arranging. At this time Holland also undertook the study of flute with a Scotsman named Pollock. In 1841 he entered Oberlin College in Ohio for another two years of musical study. After some travel including a trip to Mexico he returned to Ohio, married and settled in Cleveland. Holland's Method, published in 1876, stands as one of the finest methods for the guitar instruction published in America in the 19th century.
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Peruvian Air - Fantasie Americaine - La Suplica - Santiago - Bella Boca Polka - Un Beso Mazurka
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Download the music of C. J. Dorn$2.50 - Paypal or Credit-Card |
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Chansonette - In The Gloaming Morning Song - La Paloma
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Walter Jacobs
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Golden Plume - Harmonic Polka - The Old Fifer - Songs Of The Pyrenees 1 - Songs Of The Pyrenees 2 - Four Seasons - Serenade Quickstep - Spanish Galopade - Arrangements from the music of Donizetti
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Companion
For The Guitar - 1855 From the Preface: Guitar
Without A Master -
(26 page instruction book) - by "A German
Student" - 1873 Download the Instruction Books |
Instruction Books
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For those of you who might be interested, there is an excellent music software program called "Tabledit", which is designed for detailed notation, tablature and audio capability for the guitar and many other instruments such as fiddle, recorder, lute, harmonica and many more. . The many helpful features of this unique and reasonably priced program are too numerous to list here, check out the site.......
