World Music For Guitar

A collection of 27 beautiful solos for acoustic guitar. Peaceful Guitar Playlist presents 27 beautiful solos for acoustic guitar, transcribed in standard notation and tablature. Featuring a range of pieces from Nivana and Bob Marley to Cole Porter and J.S. Bach, there is something for everyone in this stunning collection.

The Complete Guitar Player Acoustic Songbook features a huge collection of 50 acoustic hits from all genres for Guitar. Each song includes full lyrics and Guitar chords as well as strumming and picking patterns, making this perfect for the aspiring acoustic Guitarist.Every song included in this Guitar songbook is a bona fide acoustic classic, perfect for singalongs at parties or just a strum on a summer's day in the park. Songs like Hey, Soul Sister by Train, Wonderwall by Oasis and Ho Hey by The Lumineers represent the best in unplugged and fun chill-out music. The book is designed to be accessible and enjoyable, showcasing the best songs by the best songwriters like Bob Dylan, Mumford and Sons, The Beatles and Adele. Songs from the past and the present are included, so there will be something for everyone in this acoustic songbook.Each song has been carefully arranged for Guitar and Voice, including the melody, lyrics and Guitar chord shapes. Not only this, but there are also suggested strumming or picking patterns to help you nail the exact sound of the song straight away. This acoustic Guitar songbook is ideal for beginners and intermediate Guitarists looking to expand their repertoire with acoustic songs new and old, whereas absolute beginners new to the Guitar might find that the four books of the famous Complete Guitar Player series by Russ Shipton will help them out with the basics. With these 50 acoustic Guitar songs, you'll be singing, strumming and fingerpicking your way through the folk, pop and rock canon in no time at all. The Complete Guitar Player Acoustic Songbook would make a stellar addition to any guitarist's bookshelf, and every one of these great songs will make sure that everyone is singing along. / Guitare

Performed by Christian Reichert guitarAccompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic OrchestraConductor: Nayden TodorovThis sumptuous guitar concerto written by the great Castelnuovo-Tedesco on the eve of World WarII quickly became a modern classic almost approaching the popularity of Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez.' Its appreciation has grown with the ensuing years and it is now considered a 20th-century classic. Don't miss thislyrical masterpiece! This deluxe 2CD set includes a slow-tempo practice version to help you get up to speed with the concerto.Includes an authoritative newly engraved solo part printed on high-quality ivory paper;a digital stereo compact disc featuring a complete performance of the concerto with orchestra and soloist and a second performance minus you the soloist; and a second compact disc containing a full-speed version of the completeversion as well as a special -20% slow-tempo version of the accompaniment for practice purposes. The concerto is voluminously indexed for your practice and performance convenience.

For the first time this edition presents work for Guitar solo and for Guitar duet by Graciano Tarragó grouped into different collections. Despite the fact that the composer published the set of works separately (with the exception of the collections of studies and the Catalan Christmas songs) it is not difficult to see that a natural classification surges from its formal structure from its source of inspiration and from its intent upon observing the works as a whole.The main objective of this revision was to update its presentation to meet the demands of the Guitar world today and to offer scores that ease the introduction to the study of this copious collectionof works. The works hold an indisputable musical beauty and demand technical virtuosic knowledge of the highest level.

Dans le début des années 1700, des chorals de Bach enchanté les auditeurs avec leurs harmonies inventives, le chromatisme, le mouvement contrapuntique, et les changements de centre tonal. Depuis ce temps, les étudiants en musique du monde entier ont étudié les chorals comme un parangon de 'pratique courante' l'harmonie et la voix principale. Et en vertu de leur beauté sublime, les musiciens continuent à effectuer les chorals à ce jour. La texture en quatre parties des chorals peut rendre leur performance à la guitare - avec ses limites de doigté - quelque peu problématique. Mais parfois, par l'amincissement de la texture à trois ou deux parties et, parfois, inverser les parties inférieures (permettant à l'alto ou ténor pour servir temporairement de la basse), nous avons créé des solos de guitare facile à jouer classiques qui capturent tout l'intérêt et beauté de compostitions originale de Bach. / Guitare

A very special selection of popular and much-loved classical melodies by some of the greatest composers of all time, all arranged for the Classical Guitar. Autumn (The Four Seasons) , The Blue Danube , Fur Elise and many other celebrated classical favourites are all presented here in beautiful yet accessible arrangements suitable for guitar students of grade 2 to 3 standard. A valuable early chance to tackle the music of the masters and begin to build a repertoire that will be loved by everyone. / Guitare Ou Guitare Classique

These original arrangements of favourite Christmas tunes have a real authentic jazz flavour and are sure to be a hit around the Christmas tree. With 10 songs including Last Christmas, Little Drummer Boy and Santa Claus is Coming to Town, as well as more traditional carols such as Silent Night, the collection has something for everyone. Now electric guitar too can join in the fun of playing Christmas music! / Guitare Electrique

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.

This collection of the work of the Maltese composer Gordon Mizzi for solo guitar is being made available to the public for the first time. Song of the Sea The Music of Gordon Mizzi Volume One is the first of two albums which are available from Mel Bay Publications. The title is taken from the CD Song of the Sea Carlos Bonell Plays Gordon Mizzi recorded by Carlos Bonell one of today's most celebrated guitarists and which is available fromSpearhead Music. This album has been received with critical acclaim and broadcasted by leading radio stations including the Cowan Collection BBC Radio 3. The critic Robert Matthew Walker writing in Musical Opinion Britain'soldest classical music magazine in May -June 2007 said in a review of a concert in London: Gordon Mizzi's music is 'fascinating and inventive.' His music is performed by leading guitarists all over the world. In this music wefind a truly inspired creativity and diversity. This album draws on a wide range of influences from Gordon Mizzi's musical canvas from the Maltese Variations of a Maltese Theme to the Hispanic Tango and Habanera to otherEuropean influences such as the Two Anthem Studies Song of the Sea Madliena Sonata which has four movements Morning Hymn Sun Dance Evening Song and Serenade and the haunting beauty of the Sonata for Six Mute Swans with threemovements Flying South In the Bay and Lament of the Swans.

The legendary flamenco guitarist and best-selling Mel Bay Publications author Juan Serrano is well-known for his sound recordings transcriptions of his music and technical methods for flamenco guitar. Now the music that formedhis technical repertory and was the musical foundation given to his by his father Antonio el del Lunar (guitarist for all the flamenco singers of his time including Pastora Pavon-Nina de los Peines) is at your fingertips in thisbook that contains completely unreleased flamenco puro that is the foundation of one of the world's leading guitarists. These falsetas or variations on flamenco forms (toques) are graded so they are valuable for beginners intermediate advanced and professional flamenco guitarists--or for classical guitarists that want to learn flamenco.

Romantic Arias for Classical Guitar is a collection of the world’s most beloved songs from the world of opera. An aria is a song performed during an opera that listeners are the most familiar with.These “pop songs of opera' provide an entry point for those unfamiliar with the opera repertoire considered by many as the most expressive genre of western music. For those who are familiar with the world of opera you willrecognize the selections here as the arias most beloved by millions of listeners around the world. This project a labor of love by master guitarist Steve Eckels contains the most famous melodies by composers Verdi andPuccini including the great operas La Traviata  Madame Butterfly  La Bohème  Turandot  Nabucco  Tosca and Rigoletto. Alsoincluded are Massenet’s Meditation Delibes’ Flower Duet Offenbach’s Barcarolle  Bizet’s Habanera and others. The pieces have been arrangedfor recreational or concert guitarists and have been meticulously fingered and engraved for ease of learning. The author has also provided music reading warm-ups to assist in learning the pieces. Eckels’ performances of allthe arrangements on YouTube will provide an aid in familiarizing yourself with the most beloved songs ever written.  Includes access to online audio.