Once More 'round The Sun - Guitar Recorded Versions

Throughout his career Christopher Parkening America's preeminent classical guitarist has had the opportunity to perform with many of the world's leading artists and orchestras. This folio Duets and Concertos contains many selections from those collaborations and features a wide range of musical pairings which show the guitar at its versatile best: voice and guitar guitar duets chamber music and concertos. All of the pieces included here have been edited and fingered for the guitar by Christopher Parkening and to quote Christopher himself ???No compromise has been made in requirement of technique. All of these pieces are suitable for performance by the virtuosoguitarist.??? This folio contains 35 transcriptions.

Jorge Cardoso is a recognized performer who has travelled the world over giving hundreds or concerts as a soloist, in duos, and with orchestras. There are innumerable recordings of his performances, and he is a prolific composer whose works have been recorded by other guitarists in more than thirty albums. Cardoso is also a master teacher with followers around the world. This DVD traces the historical path of the guitar, showing the instrument's ancestors and tracing its development to its current form. It includes a visit to the workshops of Manuel Contreras II and Ars Antiqva, Jose Angel Espejo's workshop, followed by a detailed analysis of the factors that contribute to the proper development of classical guitar technique. The DVD covers everything from the seat, the position of the body, and the devices used to improve it 'Aguado's machine', Sor's support system, the foot-rest, attachments, and an ingenious, simple and practical system created by the author, to the mechanical workings of the hand, its main ways of gripping, and the problems posed by the ring finger. All of these topics are approached through the scientific reasoning of the author, backed up by his knowledge as a doctor. As Jorge Cardoso says in the introduction, this course 'can be useful both to beginners and to more advanced players. . . it can be useful to anyone who plays a plucked stringed instrument.' It includes basic demonstrations and explanations about how the hands work from the moment they are placed on the guitar, as well as exercises and concert pieces of the highest level. There is a discussion of strumming technique, of 'toque mixto' and four complete pieces interpreted by the author. The course will also be useful for electric guitarists and others who have focused on the use of the pick and have neglected other essential guitar techniques. UK product number 8353412233. / Guitare Classique / 125 pages / niveau : Multiple Levels / Dvd - Format: 7,5 X 5,25

The Christmas Songbook. The true caroler's companion with eight color lyric sheets for use at parties, song fests, and caroling. Filled with 80 traditional carols from all over the world. Contents: A Babe Is Born in Bethlehem · A Cradle Song of the Blessed Virgin · A Virgin Unspotted · Adoramus Te Christe · All My Heart This Night Rejoices · Angels We Have Heard on High · Angels from the Realms of Glory · As Lately We Watched · As with Gladness Men of Old · Auld Lang Syne · Away in a Manger · Behold That Star · Beside the Candle Here I Stand · Bright Angel Hosts Are Heard On High · Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella · Christ Was Born on Christmas Day · Christians, Awake, Salute the Happy Morn · Christmas Hymn · Christmas Is Coming · Deck the Halls · Dona Nobis Pacem · Eastern Monarches, Sages Three · Fum, Fum, Fum · Gather Around the Christmas Tree · God Bless All · God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen · Good King Wenceslas · Greensleeves · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing · Here We Come A-Caroling · Holy Night, Peaceful Night · I Saw Three Ships · It Came upon the Midnight Clear · Jacques, Come Here · Jingle Bells · Jolly Old St. Nicholas · Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine · Joy to the World · Little Children Can You Tell · Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming · Lullaby Carol · Lullaby, Thou Little Tiny Child · March of the Toys · Masters in This Hall · Now the Day Is Over · Noel! Noel! · O Come Little Children · O Come, All Ye Faithful · O Come, O Come, Emmanuel · O Holy Night · O Little Town of Bethlehem · O Tannenbaum · Once in Royal David's City · Patapan · Prepare Thyself, Zion · Ring Out, Wild Bells · Rise Up, Shepherd and Follow · Shepherds! Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep · Silent Night · Sleep, Holy Babe · Slumber Song of the Infant Jesus · The Babe of Bethlehem · The First Noel · The Golden Carol · The Happy Christmas Comes Once More · The Holly and the Ivy · The Moon Shines Bright · The Seven Joys of Mary · The Twelve Days of Christmas · Toyland · Up on the Housetop · We Three Kings of Orient Are · We Wish You a Merry Christmas · What Child Is This' · Whence Comes This Rush of Wings' · While Shepherds Watched · You Gave Me a Mountain · You Go to My Head · Yule! Yule! · Yuletide Is Here · Yuletide Wakes.

Father Antonio Soler was born in Spain in 1729. Priest and composer he was also a brilliant exponent of the Harpsichord and composed more than two hundred sonatas for that instrument as well as concertos for the Organ ninemasses and sixty psalm settings part of a total output of around five hundred works.  These Three Sonatas are composed for Guitar duet. Appointed Master of the Chapel to the royalmonastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial he died there in 1783.

This book presents six contemporary guitar works by Irish composers. These works are fairly evenly divided with reference to their position in the composer?s output and also to the composers? age: three of the six are early works(Farrell Bromhead and Fennessy) while the remaining three were produced during the composers? more mature years (O?Leary Sweeney and Bodley); also three generations of living composers are represented. The six works chosen varywidely in compositional style approach to writing for the guitar and technical requirements thus presenting a generally good overview of contemporary Irish guitar music. This collection spans the period from 1970 to 2006 andincludes ?Gemini? by Jerome de Bromhead the first Irish solo concert work for guitar. A short introduction to each composer and a background to his/her work is included

If you're new to the guitar, you are probably eager to learn some songs. This book features special arrangements in standard notation of a variety of songs from pop/rock hits and standards to show tunes and movie themes that guitarists can play with a teacher or band. Includes: Chopsticks · Clocks (Coldplay) · Eleanor Rigby (The Beatles) · Game of Thrones Theme · Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen) · Linus and Lucy (from A Charlie Brown Christmas) · Memory (from Cats) · Over the Rainbow (from The Wizard of Oz) · Star Wars (Main Theme) · What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong) · You Raise Me Up (Josh Groban) · and many more.