Music Reviews: A Grab Bag of New Collections - "On a Sunday Afternoon and Other American Popular Songs from the Turn of the Last Century"

Judith Carman

ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON and Other American Popular Songs from the Turn of the Last Century

Guitar Accompaniment by Stephen Aron. Tampa: Tuscany Publications, 2003. $29.95.

This colorful collection is truly something new and interesting. Its time frame is 1892-1912, ''a period in American history of unprecedented exuberance and optimism. Before the World Wars and the Great Depression, it was a time of robust industrial expansionism and increasing American influence in world affairs'' (Preface). The excellent Preface goes on to describe the era in detail, especially...