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Item Description: Printed 192-Page Music Book
Hot off the presses! A project five years in preparation! Eagerly anticipated by accordionists around the globe!
The Complete Works of Guido Deiro
Henry Doktorski, editor
Count Guido Roberto Deiro, producer
Beautiful, handsome, scholarly urtext edition, edited exactly as Guido Deiro played in his records.
45 pieces, including marches, waltzes, polkas, foxtrots, mazurkas, tangos, etc.
Book measures 11.75 tall x 8.75 wide x 0.5 inches thick.
Handsome Engraving.
Sturdy Perfect Binding.
192 pages.
54 historic photographs.
8 historic sheet music covers.
Facsimiles of two early Deiro pieces.
Includes 11-page biography of Guido Deiro.
Published April 2008.
To see a PDF file of Deiro Rag, Click Here.
To see a PDF file of Moonlight Waltz, Click Here.
To see a PDF file of Queen of the Air March, Click Here.
Collector's item. Truly a treasured addition to any library of early twentieth-century American music.
 Count Guido Pietro Deiro (1886-1950), Italian-born composer and accordion virtuoso, was to the piano-accordion as Barrios was to the guitar, Sousa to the marching band, Joplin to ragtime, and Zez Confrey to novelty piano. Deiro was a major force in the popularization of the accordion in the early 20th century. A vaudeville star by 1910, he coined the name piano-accordion and was the first to play the instrument on the concert stage, make sound recordings, and appear in motion pictures and on radio broadcasts. For many years Deiro was a headline attraction at the great vaudeville houses throughout America and abroad, and made more than 100 recordings for the Columbia record company.
Concert accordionist and scholar Henry Doktorski has transcribed and edited all of Deiro's original music for accordion--45 pieces including waltzes, rags, marches, polkas, fox trots, tangos, and popular Deiro favorites: My Florence Waltz, Egypto Fantasia, Sharpshooter's March, and the Broadway hit, Kismet.
Guido Deiro's delightful compositions are a window onto an era long past--an artist delighting audiences with soaring melodies, instrumental virtuosity, and abundant high spirits. Who can resist the effortless melodic invention and rhythmic verve of his waltzes, mazurkas, polkas, marches, rags, and semi-classical period pieces?
A lengthly essay by Doktorski and rare photos from the Deiro family archive complete the 192-page book which will be exuberantly received not only by accordion aficionados, but also by musicologists and lovers of early twentieth-century American popluar music, much like the rediscovery of Scott Joplin's music, thirty years ago.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Breitenbush March
Deirina Mazurka
Deiro Rag
Egypto Fantasia
Guido's Royal March
Hand Grenade Throwers March
I Don't Care Polka
Il Pentimento Waltz
Kismet Fox Trot
Lido Tango
Light & Shadow Waltz
Lola Fox Trot
Los Bomberos March
Marcia
Marines March
Moonlight Waltz
Muskateers March
My Florence Waltz
Neapolitan Polka
Pink Slippers Valse
Preparedness March
Queen of the Air March
Royal Flying Corps March
Tango Tosino
Temperamental Rag
Valse Caprice No. 1
Valse Pirouette
Variety Polka
Western Stars March
Zampa Rag
Guido Deiro's Royal Method for Piano Accordion
Accordionette Waltz
Young Accordionist March
Little Accordion Player Waltz
Torpedo March
Beautiful Girl Waltz
The Peasant Quadrille
Radio Waltz
Dimples Polka
The Accordion Girl Waltz
Sharpshooters March
Veno (Duet) Fox Trot
Jewel Waltz (Duet)
King Boy (Duet) Fox Trot
Minneapolis March (Duet)
California Mazurka (Duet)
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