Music of the Crescendo Magazine

[Joel Hooks]

For nothing more than my personal amusement, and my agenda to make banjo music as accessible as possible, I have been pulling all of the banjo music out of the Crescendo magazines and adding them to the Internet Archive.

After going through the entire run I ended up with about 215 pieces, give or take.  Many were published in both C and A notation.  

This runs the gamut from 1880s waltzes and schottisches up to mid 1920s "jazz" arranged for both fingers and plectrum (though after playing them both ways I would say they were more plectrum than fingers solos).

Lots of great, and not so great, pieces here with much unexplored territory. 

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