Winter light from the back porch. To download the files below, just click on the title.
Gottschalk's 'The Banjo' and the Banjo in the 19th Century
This is a pdf of my 1992 Current Musicology article.
1.07 MB
"The Banjo" L. M. Gottschalk, arranged for banjo by Paul Ely Smith
This is notation and tablature (for 5-string banjo tuned gCGcd) for my recording of this piece on the American Akonting CD.
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Bamboula, after L. M. Gottschalk by Paul Ely Smith
This is notation and tablature (for 5-string banjo tuned gCGcd) for this piece on my American Akonting CD. It is a large file (21MB!), but the piece is really several tunes in one piece.
20.8 MB
Les Barricades Mysterieuses, F. Couperin, arranged for 5-string banjo (tuned gCGBd) by Paul Ely Smith
This is a much-improved version of the arrangement I performed on my first Flying Fish LP ("Mysterious Barricades" FF264), in tablature and notation.
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