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The Gershwin Collection

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I guess I should have asked, but I read all the reviews and no mention was made that this is for the "beginning" piano player. I'm not "concert" talent but this is for someone just beginning......say two/three years........(think, "big notes")so............I was disappointed. If you're just looking for vocal/guitar music, this might fill the bill.

I returned the book and was given full credit. Nice to deal with an understanding seller.

The Gershwin Collection is a songbook containing music from Gershwin's most popular songs, including "Someone To Watch Over Me," "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "Embraceable You," and "Love Is Here To Stay."

Piano transcriptions are provided as well as guitar chords and lyrics where applicable. Gershwin's symphonic/ concert works are not included in this collection. Almost all the works here are Gershwin's popular works, most of which originated from Broadway musicals and film.

Also included are songs from Porgy and Bess, the first American Folk Opera. "Summertime," "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'," and "My Man's Gone Now" are among works included from the opera Porgy and Bess.

I think this is a good book for beginning//intermediate adults. There are songs at many levels and they are of course, great songs!

Collected here are many of the true standards, the true classical works of American song. These are the songs played through the Muzak, the songs at the background of so much of American life and experience.
I confess to walking and singing many of these songs as I go. There is a special spirit in them, a spirit of youth and yes a spirit of American optimism and freedom. Even the songs of disappointed love have in them a kind of optimism given by what might be called the 'elegance and tenderness of their beauty'.
I have never read or heard a real analysis of 'Summertime ' and 'Embraceable you' of 'I got rhythm' or 'It Ain't Necessarily so' but my sense the vitality, the vibrancy of youth is at the heart of these songs. And then too a real sympathy with suffering.

I myself take voice lessons and all the pieces I sing are taken from this book. It is full of wonderful Gershwin songs and is a great buy.