Easy Renaissance Pieces For Classical Guitar brings to life some of the best-known Lute works of the Renaissance including many musical selections from the plays of William Shakespeare such as 'Greensleeves ''Where the Bee Sucks' and 'When That I Was a Little Tiny Boy'. Many of the great Lute composers are represented here including Dowland Johnson and even King Henry VIII. Easy Renaissance Pieces For ClassicalGuitar is designed for the beginner and intermediate guitarist and includes 61 pieces with an accompanying audio CD performed by Jerry Willard.With standard notation and TAB.

Playing classical guitar duets has never been so convenient. Two copies of the music are included - one in the book and another in an easily removable insert. The accompanying CD is mixed with the first guitar panned right and the other panned left enabling you to play along with either part. Includes beautiful transcriptions and arrangements of Renaissance pieces originally composed for two lutes. The music begins at an easy level and gradually becomes more challenging as you progress through the book. Grade level: easy to early intermediate.

Duets And Ensembles-A unique collection of guitar music which spans the late Renaissance to the late Classical period. Including new and unusual repertoire as well as popular works and showpieces Suitable for intermediate standard players.

A very representative collection of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods skillfully adapted for solo guitar from lute and piano works. This book contains well-recognized pieces by master composers many of which havealready become essential repertoire for the classical guitar. Compiled with the performance skills of the beginner guitarist in mind this collection also fulfills repertoire requirements of the student guitarist as well asproviding valuable exercises in sight-reading in standard notation for the more intermediate and advanced performers.

In this book Dr. Lily Afshar has clearly laid out the music and fingerings for 48 beginning to intermediate-level pieces by Aguado Bach Carcassi Milan Mertz Sor and other Renaissance through nineteenth-century composers. While many of these selections are set in first position for ease of reading they are effective for teaching different rhythms and arpeggio techniques as well as for learning to play simple intervals and three and four-note chords. These compositions were carefully chosen for their use in developing finger independence in both hands and can be used to advance rest stroke free stroke arpeggio and tremolo techniques. Dynamic markings have beenadded for interpretation if not originally indicated in the originals so in addition to learning positions and note locations along the fretboard you???ll have to pay attention to dynamic and tempo changes. Written in standard notation only this book is ideal for private study as a teaching and student recital sourcebook or for inclusion in the syllabus for a high school or first-year collegiate guitar program.

Par DOWNLAND JOHN. For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. The book is intended for the guitarist with intermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique character of Dowland\'s music, renaissance lute tuning (capo on the third fret with the G string tuned to F sharp) is used throughout. The pieces progress more or less in order of increasing difficulty, and special care has been taken to be sure any group of consecutive pieces can be played with satisfyingresults. Standard notation only. Includes access to online audio. For years, classical guitarists have enjoyed playing the lute music of the English composer, John Dowland (1563-1626). Forty of his beautiful compositions are included in this volume. The book is intended for the guitarist withintermediate to advanced fingerstyle technique, and can be played on both nylon and steel string instruments. In order to help capture the unique character of Dowland\'s music, renaissance lute tuning (capo on the third fret withthe G string tuned to F sharp) is used throughout. The pieces progress more or less in order of increasing difficulty, and special care has been taken to be sure any group of consecutive pieces can be played with satisfyingresults. Standard notation only. Includes access to online audio. / Niveau : 4 / Classique / Répertoire / Guitare Classique

This is the first book to publish an extensive collection of pre-Renaissance music transcribed for Guitar! Gregorian Chant melodies -- enormously popular in recent years -- form the basis for this volume. Inside Garno arguesthat this music of the first 1500 years of Western history should no longer be ignored by guitarists. In support he presents copious notes along with a myriad of single and multi-movement works and concludes that such music isappropriately played on the Guitar. A pioneering work that should be in every serious guitarist's library. Notation and tablature. Intermediate to advanced level. Includes access to online audio.

Media Type : Book/CD Set Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : All Styles Series : Mastering Guitar Number of pages : 144 Mastering the Guitar is an innovative, comprehensive method for learning the guitar. Level 2 Book C includes a wealth of challenging and creative guitar solos, duets and studies in the keys of A-flat,F-minor, G-minor,D-flat, and B-flat minor. Special concepts presented in this volume include: basic improvisation, rhythmic variation, barre chords, key of A-flat/closed position, passing tone studies, harmonized scales, western swing, fingerstyle performance, chord progression studies, blues, chords, common rock and blues licks, bass string chords, Latin rhythms, and comping. Guitar solo material provided in rock, jazz, bluegrass, Latin, blues, Baroque, Renaissance, and from a wide variety of historical periods and contemporary musical styles. Mastering the Guitar 2C Double CD set is a recording to accompany the volume of the same title. These CDs contain most all of the solo and duet settings found in the book as performed by William Bay, Mike Christiansen, and John McClellan.