6 Pieces For Guitar Solo

Classical Guitar Solos - Favorite Sonatinas. In this book, guitarist and music historian David Grimes presents 20 ?small sonatas? or sonatinas, complete with detailed performance notes and bio sketches of each of the contributing composers: Leonhard von Call, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, Mauro Giuliani, Francesco Molino, and Antonio Nava. While flexible, the early 19th-century sonatina form usually consists of 2 - 4 contrasting movements, here in guitar-friendly keys, making these pieces ideal for performance by intermediate-level students. In all but the most challenging passages, Grimes has intentionally kept fingering to a minimum to allow students to form their own concept of this critical skill. Then, as many bass notes in these pieces are played on open strings, the player must develop a sense of when to selectively damp dissonant tones or observe a rest? exposing and overcoming yet another shortcoming in the education of many guitarists. Most classic guitar teachers are familiar with the easy didactic studies by Carcassi, Carulli and Giuliani; Favorite Sonatinas offers more highly developed, but not yet virtuoso pieces by the same Italian triumvirate? plus three more composers in a similar vein? promoting confident, enjoyable sight-reading by guitarists of all levels.

Guillermo Diego's Album Pieces for Solo Guitar Volume I embody a collection of original works conceived by this recognized Mexican composer for classical guitar. These pieces have being written with different musical languagesthat goes from the inspiration in Mexican styles to free pieces that use contemporary and different resources that belongs to the guitar concerto style. This works are plenty of musical colors and offers different challenges tothe guitarist. The writing is completely idiomatic very natural for the guitar; it is music in which one the professional finds an artistic meaning but also the students will find the elements to improve his technical and willnear them to original works that have being composed recently and inspired in Mexican and Latin American music. The publication of this book is a premiere and will give to the guitarist part of the knowledge of what it is happencurrently in Mexican classical guitar. Guillermo Diego is a well-known composer into the sphere of classical guitar who has being recognized for his contributions to the art of the guitar.

Guitar Solo. Ten transcriptions for solo guitar of beautiful music from many periods and styles edited and fingered by Christopher Parkening. All pieces are suitable for performance by the advanced guitarist. Contents: Afro-Cuban Lullaby · Empress of the Pagodes (Ravel) · Menuet (Ravel) · Minuet in D (Handel) · Passacaille (Weiss) · Pastourelle (Poulenc) · Pavane for a Dead Princess (Ravel) · Pavane for a Sleeping Beauty (Ravel) · Preambulo (Scarlatti-Ponce) · Sarabande (Handel).

Classical Masterpieces Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation-The Classical Guitar Compendium brings the world of classical music to guitarists of all levels. This collection features classical Guitar technical studies from Sor Tarrega Guiliani Carcassi and Aguado as well as presenting fresh Guitar arrangements of well-known classical masterpieces. Repertoire compositions are included from the likes of Bach Beethoven Brahms Chopin Debussy Fauré Massenet Mozart Pachelbel Ravel Schumann Tchaikovsky Wagner and more. Access to online audio is also included with Guitar solo performances by Bridget Mermikides. This is the notation only edition.The tablature edition can be found here.

A collection of 28 Ernesto Nazareth compositions expertly transcribed for classic guitar solo. One of the major difficulties in trying to arrange Ernesto Nazareth?s themes for any instrument but the piano is to separatethe melodic line from its accompaniment: both are so closely together (that is one of the strongest characteristics of his pianistic style of composition) that it becomes almost impossible to treat one of the features disregardingthe other. If one did that the result would be only a pale and incomplete portrait of what was intended by the composer. That thought has guided us in the making of this book. In spite of the huge obstacles that resulted from thetransposition of a piece originally written for the piano a very rich instrument regarding the expressive recourses to the more 'modest' guitar we always kept in mind our principal intention: to preserve at the most all themelodic dialogues of the scores in special the ones between the melody and the bass line both the elements that form the soul of Nazareth?s compositions. We obviously had to do some changes. Thus for instance in somearrangements it was necessary to transpose the original key to a more appropriate one (at the guitar view-point of course). Some phrases or fragments had also to be written an octave higher or lower (that can be perfectlyunderstandable if we consider the very wide melodic range of the piano and the extensive way with which Nazareth uses it). Needless to say that all those recourses were used only when it has been strictly necessary. Despite thefact that those 28 pieces are only a little portion of Nazareth?s work this group of arrangements represents a good and representative panel. Among them there are some of Nazareth?s greatest hits ('Apanhei-te Cavaquinho' 'Odeon' 'Brejeiro' 'Ameno Resedá' etc.) as well as other not so known compositions but no less beautiful and important. Listening to those pieces one can observe the compositional talent of Nazareth and his incredible

Five Studies for Guitar Solo. We study methods and etudes from the 18th and 19th centuries to facilitate playing the music of the 18th and 19th centuries. As a teacher, Hand wrote his Five Studies for Guitar Solo, in order to help his students in performance of current and contemporary music. To be sure, each of the studies presents challenges in different techniques, but all five are also excellent stand-alone pieces.

Library of Easy Classical Guitar Solos. A superb collection of easy and rewarding classical guitar solos, each one carefully selected and arranged in modern notation and tablature for the beginning guitarist. Turn these pages to enjoy the greatest guitar music of the Renaissance, Baroque, classical, and Romantic periods. Excerpts from essential guitar methods by Aguado, Carcassi (Op. 60), Carulli, Giuliani (Opp. 50, 51) and Sor (Opp. 60, 48): traditional settings of timeless classics by Bach, Pachelbel, Beethoven, Paganini, Wagner and Mendelssohn: and recital and audition favorites by Galilei, Tárrega and Satie are all contained within these pages. Early masterpieces by Milan, Dowland, Sanz and de Visée are represented here, as well as rarer but equally delightful works by Bosch and Coste.

Classically trained jazz guitarist Diego Barber presents five well-developed themes and a 3-movement solo sonata transcribed from his outstanding commercial CD recordings: Calima One Minute Later Tales and The Choice. Two of the tracks “Elvira Maria” and the 3-movement Sonata “Banc d’Arguin” are strictly guitar solos while “Richi” is a solo accompaniedby light percussion. “Kilian’s Mountain” is a reduced score of an extended duet with a pianist and “Desierto” and “Virgianna” include expert sidemen on saxophone bass and drums.The music ventures from complex melody-chord textures to hard-swinging grooves all played with spontaneity and a heightened awareness of time dynamics color technique and tone. Even seasoned guitarists will find thesepieces rhythmically and technically challenging but they provide a roadmap to the recordings and rare insight to the workings of a unique musical mind. Diego Barber’s Compositions for ClassicalGuitar are written in standard notation only with online access to stellar solo and ensemble recordings. About Sonata “Banc d’Arguin” … Diego Barber is a native ofLanzarote in the Canary Islands just off the northeast coast of Africa; in writing Sonata “Banc d’Arguin ” the main solo piece in this collection he was inspired by the major cities Nouadhibouand Nouakchott the Banc d’Arguin National Park and the desert of the West African country of Mauritania.