Classical Guitar of Spain

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.

Les Productions d'OZ proposons ici une nouvelle série intitulée Les nombreux visages de la guitare. Bien que le regroupement par niveau a été conservée , le répertoire est composé exclusivement de compositions originales choisies par les compositeurs eux-mêmes. D'OZ exclusivités choisis parmi les publications plus anciennes sont ici côte à côte avec de toutes nouvelles pièces.Le catalogue d'OZ regorge de petits trésors écrits pour tous les niveaux par des guitaristes , compositeurs et professeurs dévoués à la cause de la guitare classique . Le titre suggère un portrait optimiste de la pratique instrumentale dans de nombreuses régions du monde , et la portée de la 'famille' de compositeurs qui sont réguliers contributeurs d'OZ . Le métissage des genres et des pays apportent une saveur internationale qui rend ces oeuvres si spécial.C'est avec un esprit ouvert que je me suis engagé dans ce projet ambitieux d'enregistrer la musique des six volumes. J'ai été séduit par les qualités mélodiques et l'efficacité des différentes techniques de guitare impliqués dans ces travaux, et en même temps fournir aux étudiants une nouvelle et intéressante répertoire. / Guitare

Thea Musgrave's Postcards From Spain is a fascinating travelogue of Spain without being overly Spanish from the tranquility of sunlight reflecting off still pools to the dramatic song of the Cantaor and his Flamenco guitarist. This little collection of five serenades for solo guitar has been editred by Michael Lorimer is a real treat for guitarists and listeners.

This collection includes 58 pieces of music by the Spanish Guitar master Fernando Sor as well as audio of the entire book recorded by Ben Bolt. Ben Bolt believes these pieces are the 'bestof the best' for developing technique musicianship and exposing the guitarist to the ingenious musical world of Fernando Sor. Regardless of your current level of expertise this music will be a joy to learn and listento. Pieces include: Napoleon's Theme E Minor at Midnight Rhapsody in D March of the Wooden Soldier and Easter Hymn. Ben Bolt's digital recordings of his arrangements are superb. Hiswarm tone and singing vibrato bring Sor's music to life. All interpretations are classically correct. He plays on his Fleta and Sons concert Guitar made in Barcelona Spain (1976).

Father Antonio Soler was born in Spain in 1729. Priest and composer he was also a brilliant exponent of the Harpsichord and composed more than two hundred sonatas for that instrument as well as concertos for the Organ ninemasses and sixty psalm settings part of a total output of around five hundred works.  These Three Sonatas are composed for Guitar duet. Appointed Master of the Chapel to the royalmonastery of San Lorenzo de El Escorial he died there in 1783.

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.

Regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the 20th century Manuel De Falla (1876-1946) had a distinctively nationalistic style.Cantares De Nochebuena was written c.1903 making it one of his earlier works. It is a collection and arrangement of 9 traditional folksongs for Christmas Eve originally from the Andalusian region of southern Spain. They were probably gathered in the city of Cadiz.The songs are scored for solo Voice and Guitar. In an attempt to imitate the simplistic nature of the source material the Guitar part is relatively easy requiring only a handful of different chords.

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. Los Maestros (The Masters) is a collection of three songs for solo Guitar dedicated to 'Three Teachers': Copla - La Rueda - Baile (Couplet - The Wheel - Dance).

El Album De Cecilia Para Guitarra is a collection of six pieces for solo Guitar. It was composed in 1948 and is named for the composer’s daughter and only child. St Cecilia is the patron saint of music and fittingly Rodrigo was born on St Cecilia’s day November 22nd. Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999) was born in Valencia and lost his sight to diphtheria at the age of three which is believed to have heightened his hearing and inspired him to pursue a musical career. He began to study music five years later and became one of Spain’s most distinguished composers musicologists and pedagogues.

A series of three volumes containing the very best of Spanish guitar music. Compositions by Albeniz transcribed for guitar and newly engraved. Excellent repertoire for the advanced student.

Mel Bay's Flamenco Guitar Wall Chart offers an overview of the essential elements of this flamboyant art form. It provides musical examples of the principal techniques song forms and rhythms together with a glossary of flamencoterms specifics of the structural differences between flamenco and classic guitars and a chronological list of noteworthy flamenco players. A large photo of a guitar constructed by Rafael Moreno Rodriguez of Granada Spaingraces the chart sure to appeal to the novice or seasoned flamenco guitarist!

Learn the Guitar in a creative new way. Par PELLS TIM / FRANKE JENS. Learn the Guitar in a creative new way: Playing music that makes you feel good, right from the outset. Passport to Play Guitar is a tutor series which is focused on learning to play the guitar through listening, reading and playing together, and is suitable for both classical and acoustic guitarists. The sheet music includes TAB alongside the standard notation. The books use music drawn from styles and cultures from all around the world, including Blues and Jazz from North America; Folk and Traditional music from Europe, Africa and Latin America; and pieces inspired by the people and places that the authors have encountered on their travels. Audio files

Par BOLT BEN. This text includes fifty-eight pieces of music as well as a recorded CD of the entire book. Ben Bolt believes these pieces are the 'best of the best' for developing technique, musicianship, and exposing the guitarist to the ingenious musical world of Fernando Sor. Regardless of your current level of expertise, this music will be a joy to learn and listen to. Titles include: Napoleon's Theme - E Minor at Midnight - Rhapsody in D - March of the Wooden Soldier - and Easter Hymn are sure to please any audience. Ben Bolt's digital recordings of his arrangements are superb. His warm tone and singing vibrato bring Sor's music to life. All interpretations are classically correct. He plays on his Fleta and Sons concert guitar made in Barcelona, Spain (1976). Fernando Sor was born in Barcelona, Spain (1778). / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Classic - Solos / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures Classique et Fingerpick