Sonata For Flute And Guitar

This Sonata by Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) was originally in the key of D minor and written for Flute & Guitar (plus continuo). John Zaradin has played his own flute & guitar duo version for many years (in D minor) but found that as a guitar solo the key of E minor suits the instrument best.

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee's (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: 'In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.' Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton's city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman's reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means 'conversation with the gods' in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao's (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950's following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo's ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece's characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles' Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don't Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach's Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht's The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli's Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish's A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony's co-production of George Gershwin's Opera Porgy and Bess.

Par MARLOW JANET. The Joy of Flute and Guitar collection is geared for the flute and six string guitarist to enhance the repertoire for this combination for students and professional performers in ensemble. The works include: Greensleeves (Anonymous 16th c.) - Mozart's Spring Etude in Bb Major (Fernando Sor and Janet Marlow) - Minuet and Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Christoph Gluck) - Sonata in F Major (Georg Philipp Telemann) - Sonata in C Major BMV 1033 (Johann Sebastian Bach) - Berceuse Op. 16 (Gabriel Faure). / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classic - Ensemble / Recueil / Guitare Classique

Par ZUCKER LAUREL. The Honduras Sonata for flute and guitar was composed during a visit to Honduras by the composer. The sonata is in three movements: Pico Bonita, Copan Ruins, and Lovely Cotinga. The first movement was inspired by the jungle lodge (of the same name) where she visited. The Copan Ruins, in the far west of Honduras, are the remnants of the Copan civilization and give visitors a chance to climb and explore the vast complex of ancient structures. Lastly, the third movement is named after the shy and elusive cotinga bird, which the composer was fortunate to have gazed upon during her time there. / Répertoire / Flûte Traversière et Guitare

Description Guitar And Flute Duets Compiled and arranged by Peter Draper. Forty-seven duets for intermediate players with study hints for each piece. Songlist A Happy And Harmonious Blacksmith (Air - Suite No.5 In E Hwv 430) [Handel, George Frideric] Allegro In D (Mozart) Alman [Johnson, Robert] Berceuse [Faure, Gabriel] Come Again [Dowland, John] El Majo Discreto [Granados, Enrique] Gavotte [Turk, Daniel Gottlob] Invention No.10 (Js Bach) Kemp's Jig (Downland) Largo (Xerxes) [Handel, George Frideric] Le Marc-antoine (Blavet) Le Tambourin [Rameau, Jean-philippe] Le Tambourin (Leclair) Lento (Telemann) March [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Minuet (Blavet) Minuet (Don Giovanni) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Minuet (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Minuet (Schubert) Minuet From Orpheus (Gluck) Minuet I (Purcell) Minuet Ii (Purcell) Minuet In G Minor [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Minuetto (Paganini) Minuetto Giocoso [Haydn, Franz Joseph] Moment Musicale Op.94 No.3 [Schubert, Franz] Musette [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Pastorale (Vivaldi) Playera (Granados) Prelude In E Minor Op.28 No.4 [Chopin, Frederic] Preludio [Corelli, Arcangelo] Rage Over A Lost Penny [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] Recuerdos De La Alhambra (Tarrega) Recuerdos de la Alhambra [Tarrega, Francisco] Rondo [Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel] Serenade [Haydn, Franz Joseph] Siciliano [Bach, Johann Sebastian] Sicilienne [Paradies, Pietro] Sonata In A No.483 (Scarlatti) Sonatine In D Minor (Beethoven) Tango [Albeniz, Isaac] The Organ Grinder From Die Winterreise Op.89 (Schubert) Theme And Variation On A Theme By Rossini (Chopin) Tre Giorni (Pergolesi) Valse (Tchaikovsky) Waltz [Brahms, Johannes] Waltz (Lyric Pieces) [Grieg, Edvard] Waltz In A Minor (Chopin) What If I Never Speede (Downland)