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The Musicarta Songbook

Page Four


The Stride Collection

Here are two piano solos in the 'stride' style - 'Spread A Little Happiness' and 'If I Could Be With You'.


Spread A Little Happiness

This 1929 hit is a classic of its kind. Here's the recording I've worked from.

Isn't the orchestration perfect? The chord sequence almost noble in its easy command; the trilling vocal so emblematic of the 1920s' gilded bathos and tragic optimism...

Here's my piano rendering

Here's a thumbnail of the first page my arrangement.

Spread A Little p.1

Download the full sheet music here.



If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight)

Stride titan James P Johnson is credited on this 1926 hit. If you know his work, you're bound to recognise his signature keyboard voicings.

Here's a virtual piano rendering of the predictably 'clunky' original sheet music (chorus only).

Don't you just love that W C Handy 16-bar blues feel? 

Here's my piano rendering. You'll hear the 'smoothing' kick in!

Here's a thumbnail of the first page of the music.

If I Could p2

Download the full sheet music here.



Love Is... (medley)

Here's a mini-medley of 'Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing' segueing into the grand 'Love Is The Sweetest Thing' by Ray Noble.

Download the sheet music here.


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