Spanish Composers for Classical Guitar

This collection features transcriptions of pieces by renowned Spanish composers arranged with non-conventional Guitar fingerings. Each piece demonstrates Lily Afshar's musicality and sense of touch especiallynoticeable in Danza Espanola by Granados Capricho Arabe and Adelita by Tarrega and Tango by Albeniz.The book includes works by the following composers: Granados Tarrega Albeniz and Sor.

This book contains a selection of 13 pieces for Trinity Classical Guitar Grade 2 exams, carefully chosen, graded and edited for the 2020'2023 syllabus by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including duets up to Grade 5, our progressive series offers teachers and learners a wealth of engaging repertoire, whether working towards Trinity exams or studying with other guitar methods.

The popular ?España? series features a collection of pieces by world-renowned Spanish composers as well as other works inspired by this intriguing country.The present edition the third in this series contains a selection of accessible pieces for two guitars. Among them: the notorious ?Spanish Dance No.1? (Danse espagnole No.1) by Manuel de Falla as well as the enchanting ?Five Gypsy Dances? (Cinq Danses gitanes) by Joaqu n Turina. This album also includes original works by the illustrious Spanish guitarist Emilio Pujol.

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.

A wonderful guitar work by Spanish composer and Flamenco guitarist Francisco Tarrega and is typical of his fusion of romantic and Spanish folk styles.

Platero Y Yo (Platero and I) is a suite of eight short works inspired by a set of poems that Nobel Prize-winning author Juan Ramón Jiménez.wrote about a donkey and his home region of Andalusia. The words of the poems are to be read over the performance of the witty modern Andalusian-inspired music. It is a charming work that has performed and recorded many times.Composer and Guitarist Eduardo Sainz De La Maza was a twentieth century Spanish composer brother of the better known Regino Sainz De La Maza. This suite is his most famous work along with Campanas del Alba.

13 Spanish songs for solo guitar by Albéniz Sor Tárrega and others. Includes Leyenda Danza Española No.5 Danza Mora El Mestre and more. Also features historical notes performance suggestions and biographies of the composers represented.

2 Books with Online Audio. Gaspar Sanz was one of the most celebrated guitarists and composers of his time. In 1674 he published a method for the baroque guitar. This method has been lauded by guitar aficionados and serves as a significant historic work. Written in Old Spanish with the tablature system of its day, this method has only been available to the few who would meticulously research and decipher its hidden meanings. Available here is the complete manuscript of Sanz's legacy, which has been translated into English and the tablature arrangements now include standard music notation. Jerry Willard has also included arrangements for the modern guitar and performs selections from this body of work on both the baroque and modern guitar which can be found on the accompanying audio. Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Works by Albeniz, Bach, Dowland, Granados, Scarlatti, Sor and other Great Composers. More than 50 classic guitar pieces from rarities to popular favorites, including works by Albeniz, Bach, Dowland, Granados, Scarlatti, Sor and other great composers. Transcribed, arranged and edited by David Nadal. Guitarists at every level will find this sturdy, attractive, modestly priced collection of enduring works an indispensable addition to their musical libraries./ Recueil / Guitare

The Spanish master Andres Segovia was one of the great masters of the guitar. Self-taught he took the guitar to new heights of technical mastery in countless concerts and toured almost every country in the world. With his vast number of transcriptions and editions Segovia created an extensive repertoire of classic and modern guitar music thus laying the foundation for the renaissance of the guitar in the 20th Century. In particular he succeeded in inspiring a new generation of contemporary guitar composers.This collection contains the finest pieces from his repertoire with which he has earned his instrument such great respect.

A collection of 12 classic pieces from one of Spain's most significant composers Isaac Albeniz contains some of the finest transcriptions and easy-to-read guitar tablature.

In this Mel Bay publication guitarist/composer Rico Stover offers his original composition Romance Variations in a 25 page score of the work with accompanying audio.The RomanceAnonimo ('Anonymous Romance') is one of the most popular pieces in the classical guitar repertoire. Also known as Spanish Romance Romance de Amor Jeux interdits and Estudio de Rubira this 19th centurywork has continually delighted lovers of the instrument around the world and has become a standard part of guitar pedagogy.Different 'flavors' of guitar styles are heard in these variations which are inspired byguitarists/composers whom Rico admires: Mateo Carcassi Joe Pass Heitor Villalobos Luiz Bonfa Chet Atkins and Atahualpa Yupanqui.After a short introduction the Romance theme is heard after which the variations commence. Each variation follows the minor/major pattern:Variation 1: Arpegiado - classical arpeggios. Variation 2: Bordoneo - bass line textures. Variation 3: Villalobosiana - in the style of themaster. Variation 4: Bossanova - Brazilian syncopations. Variation 5: Chet's Pick - country style fingerpicking. Variation 6: Aire de Danza - Latin American dance rhythms.The essay 'Romance Anonimo: Who Composed It''explores the different theories regarding the question of authorship including an analysis of seven different editions of the Romance that date from 1900 to 1958.

Celedonio Romero (1913 - 1996) was a classical guitarist and composer. Born in Cuba to Spanish parents he studied music at Malaga and Madrid but never had any formal Guitar lessons. Having became well known within Spain he was refused permission to perform outside the country by Franco’s government. In 1957 he moved to the United States and founded the distinguished Guitar quartet Los Romeros with his three sons. Romero wrote over 100 compositions for Guitar. His ever-popular Gavota (Gavotte) was first published in 1980 but was probably written much earlier.