SKU: FJ.FJH2293
ISBN 9781619282193. UPC: 241444385432. English.
Choosing which solo to start with will be difficult because this book is loaded with 15 selections that are fun, exciting, and suitable for performance. Book 4 includes the blues (Mr. Cool by Kevin Olson), a sonatina, a toccatina (Presto in 5/8 by Edwin McLean), a hymn, a prelude, a bourrée, and a majestic piece (The White Mountain by Timothy Brown)¦plus many more! Look no further for motivating pieces that appeal to students of all ages.
SKU: HL.50148750
UPC: 073999779769. 9.25x12.25x0.123 inches.
Contents: Allegro Moderato • Aria (Willst Du Dein Herz Mir Schenken) • Bourrée • Chorale • Double • Entree (Overture in F) • Gavotte • Gavotte • Gigue • Giguetta (Partita in C) • Kleiner Kanon • March in D Major • Menuett • Moderato • Polonaise in A Minor • Prelude in A Minor • Prelude in C • Prelude in C Minor • Sarabande • Scherzo.
SKU: MB.20133
ISBN 9780786666805. UPC: 796279087247. 8.75 x 11.75 inches. By Elias Barreiro.
The result of decades of experience in teaching the classical guitar, this method introduces the student to the earliest stages of learning how to play the classical guitar, from learning how to read music to becoming an accomplished player. This gradually progressing approach covers scales, including scales in thirds, sixths and octaves in all major and minor keys, arpeggios, chords, slurs, harmonics, and more. The technical aspects in this book are supplemented with a vast number of exercises and solos, from easy to more advanced, including repertoire music to make the process of learning to play the guitar a most enjoyable experience. Written in standard notation only.
SKU: IS.G6760EM
ISBN 9790365067602.
This sonata (WeissSW No. 50, Dresden) is one of a new series of eight sonatas by Silvius Leopold Weiss arranged for the first time for guitar and published by Metropolis Music. Sonata XXVII comes from a set of tablature manuscript volumes in the Sächsisches Landesbibliothek in Dresden (Ms. Mus. 2841-?V-?1). There are five volumes with a total of 34 sonatas of Weiss for solo lute. The sonatas are ordered by key and further sorted by size or complexity. Sonata XXVII is a large and mature piece, composed in Weiss??s late period, around 1730. The Sonata has six movements: Introduzzione (an opening movement in Italian style with elements of an Allemande and Prelude), Courante, Bourrée, Sarabande, Menuet, and it ends with a Presto. The use of tempo indications for French dance movements is characteristic for the later work of Weiss. Originally, the Sonata is written in B flat major, a key often used by Weiss as it is appropriate for playing the lute, but rather awkward with the guitar. For ease and effectiveness of playing, I have transposed the Sonata a minor third lower to G major. To create more concordance with the baroque tuning of the lute, the G string is lowered by a semitone to F sharp. I suggest using a capodastro to achieve the original pitch. Based on the present standard of A at 440 Hertz, the capo should be placed at the 3rd fret. However, during Weiss??s lifetime, it was more common in many parts of Germany to use a standard of A at 415 Hertz -? a semitone lower. So, to hear the pitch heard by Weiss and his contemporaries, the capo should then be positioned at the 2nd fret.
