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by Anna Castiglioni (Illustrator), Evelyn Tiffany Castiglioni (Author)
This book provides a large repertory for the parlor, community hall, or stage for folk ensembles. It contains 144 trio arrangements of traditional and contemporary dance tunes and airs, 6 hymns, and 6 transcriptions of baroque and classical pieces, with melodies, descants, harmonies and chords. The collection includes 8 American Tin Pan Alley standards composed from 1907 to 1919 by Nora Bayes-Northworth, Irving Berlin, Shelton Brooks, Gus Edwards, George W. Meyer, Chris Smith, and Percy Wenrich. It also includes tunes by contemporary composers Davey Arthur, Mer Pantaleoni Boel, Paul Gitlitz, John Goodin, James Hill, Magnus Laesk, Bob McQuillen, and Jim Rebhan. Most scores are printed on one page. The back of the book has 28 pages of notes about the tunes and references to their sources.
Author Biography
Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni plays accordion with the Central Texas contra dance band "Jalapeño Honey." She studied concert accordion and music theory with her father, Robert S. Tiffany, Jr., classical pedal harp with Gayel Panke Gibson and Laurie Buchanan, voice with Lori Joachim Fredrics, cello with Prudence McDaniel of the Marian Anderson String Quartet, and mandolin with Marilynn Mair. She has won many awards for Scottish harp performance. Evelyn received a B.S. degree in biology from the University of Texas-El Paso and a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences from the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston and is a professor of neuroscience at Texas A&M University.
