Twenty-five traditional folk songs, plus 19 songs written in the folk style by 20th-century composers such as Shostakovich, Knipper, and Zakharov. Each of the songs appears with a vocal line, full piano accompaniment, and guitar chords. The lyrics are shown in the original Cyrillic, in transliteration, and in an English translation.
Reprint of the Random House, New York, 1962 edition.
Preface
Introduction by Henrietta Yurchenco
Guide to Transliteration
Part I Folk Songs
1. Down the Volga River
2. "Oh, You Dear Little Night"
3. Down Along the Mother Volga
4. Dubinushka
5. The Slender Mountain Ash
6. Farewell to Happiness
7. The Little Bell
8. Do Not Scold Me and Do Not Reproach Me
9. No Sounds from the City are Heard
10. My Sweetheart
11. All Throughout the Great Wide World I Wandered
12 The Story of the Coachman
13. In the Meadow Stood a Little Birch Tree
14. The Boundless Expanse of the Sea
15. The Cliff on the Volga
16. Snow Flurries
17. Stenka Razin (From Beyond the Island)
18. Troika Rushing
19. Do Not Awaken My Memories
20. Along the Peterskaya Road
21. In the Valley
22. The Village on the Road
23. Kalinka (Little Snowball Bush)
24. Why Do You Gaze at the Road?
25. Song of the Volga Boatmen
Part II Popular Songs
26. Moscow Nights
27. Lonely Accordion
28. Katiusha
29. Wait for Me
30. Silently
31. Dark Is the Night
32. Strains of Guitar (On the River)
33. The Light
34. Wait for Your Soldier
35. Meadowland
36. Regimental Polka
37. My Heart
38. "Far Away, Far Away"
39. Should the Volga's Banks Be Flooded
40. Strolling Home
41. Who Knows Why
42. Through the Village
43. Clouds Have Risen Over the City
44. Song of Greeting
Discography
Guitar Chorde Fingering Patterns