SKU: UT.CH-159
ISBN 9790215320390. 9 x 12 inches.
With this Suite for guitar â?? whose main reference point is the baroque instrumental suite and its traditional dances â?? the interpreter takes a journey through various compositional styles (e.g. the use of microstructures, modality, atonality, harmony in fourths, whole-tone scales), in the form of a dance. Within the scope of this metacultural project, both performer and listener are presented with a musical juxtaposition where the baroque suite is always present as a historic reference. This project is aimed at an average level of guitar students where instrumental technique is equally as important as composition. In this respect, the Suite is useful in the areas of concert performance, in the teaching of instrumental technique and in compositional analysis.
SKU: UT.CH-157
ISBN 9790215320369. 9 x 12 inches.
Vals d'la Masca; Il racconto della Montagna; Sequenze sotterraneeThe Alpinia Suite was commissioned and composed for the festival <> and is dedicated to my friend and colleague Elio Galvagno. It was performed for the first time on August 30, 2011, in the Church of San Giovanni in Saluzzo, by an ensemble of professional and student guitarists from all over Europe. This piece was written to commemorate the first ascent of mount Monviso, by William Mathews, Frederick Jacomb, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, exactly 150 years before, on August 30, 1861.The first movement is a small Waltz. I imagined a Masca (a sort of alpine pixie, a teasing sprite), dancing all around the house and playing tricks, mostly harmless and funny. The Masca is a legendary and very important character in the folklore of my valleys, and all rationally inexplicable events of everyday life are ascribed to her - such as objects that cannot be found anymore, holes in flour sacks, salt in sugar bowls...The next two movements are a homage to the Mountains. The Tale is a sort of journal, a bright and peaceful chronicle of a hike uphill, in which the beauty of the place is highlighted by an easy harmony and a sweet melody. After this, Underground sequences evokes that same world in a darker and nocturnal way; the faster pace and the choice of repeated and varying patterns are meant to show the transformation of the former environment into something more complex and tormented. Here mountains are a metaphor of human life, warts and all: their sundrenched slopes and their green pasture grasslands, but also their icy and dangerous northern sides, which demand calm, training and caution.(G. Signorile).
SKU: HL.49010752
ISBN 9790220116391. UPC: 073999172546. 9.0x12.0x0.097 inches.
SKU: HL.280837
9.0x12.0 inches.
Gabriel Profokiev's Stolen Guitars for Four Electric Guitars. Commissioned by POW Ensemble. Originally for Electric Guitar and 2 Laptops. Premiered by the POW Ensemble with Wiek Hijmans. The first performance of the Electric Guitar quartet was given by the Cave Guitar Ensemblein Guadaemus, Holland on 17th May 2011. Duration: 14 minutes.
SKU: FG.55011-685-6
Mikko Heinio's Mot natten (Towards night), three nocturnes and two interludes for cello and guitar was composed in 2018. This suite found its inspiration and name in Finnish poet Bo Carpelan's (1926-2011) posthumous poetry collection Mot natten (2013), though the movements are not tied to specific poems. The first nocturne, Obscuro ('twilight'), dominated by pizzicatos, is followed by a more dynamic interlude, Spasimo ('spasm'). The fragile second nocturne, Sospiro ('sigh'), is coloured by delicate micro-interval chords plucked on the guitar between the left hand and the nut. The interlude Passi ('steps') leads with taps on the sound box straight into the third nocturne, Battito ('beat'), the way having been paved by the heartbeat of strong guitar pizzicatos. The duration is c. 11'30''. The product includes one full score and separate parts for guitar and violoncello.
SKU: HL.49014783
ISBN 9790220112911. 8.75x11.5x0.068 inches.
SKU: M7.VHR-13519
ISBN 9783864342011.
31 Christmas songs in easy to medium difficulty. The arrangements of the piano accompaniment are especially characterized by their stylistic diversity: from classic traditional to modern and groovy. In addition to traditional Christmas songs, the German hits In der Weihnachtsbäckerei and Küss mich, halt mich, lieb mich are included, as well as international titles, such as: White Christmas, Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Feliz Navidad, Sleigh Ride, Les anges dans nos campagnes, Winter Wonderland, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, Little Drummer Boy, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow ... All editions of the series Weihnachtslieder aus aller Welt (Christmas songs from around the world) are compatible (exception: guitar solo) and ideally suited for playing together.
