My First Classical Music Album

The pieces and etudes you need to develop your first classical guitar repertoire. This book and CD package contains delightful repertory of pieces for the beginning or intermediate player. The selections are drawn from allperiods of classical guitar literature and have been newly arranged and edited by Jerry Willard.All the music in both standard and tab notation to fifty gems from the beginner's repertoire together with full-lengthperformances on the accompanying CD.

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.

For the first time ever you can learn each song from this absolute all time classic metal album in one convenient package. A must have for Sabbath fans.Released in 1970 Paranoid features many of Black Sabbath’s best known songs and some of Tony Iommi’s most flashy blues rock influences.Learn to play the following:War PigsParanoidPlanet CaravanIron ManElectric FuneralHand of DoomRat SaladFairies Wear BootsPresented in stunning multi camera angle footage you’ll learn the highlights of each song one note at a time so you’ll never get lost. From the iconic riffs to theexplosive solos never has it been so easy to learn one of the greatest albums ever.

In the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the parlor was a room set aside for particular functions. Before the advent of the radio, it was the place where formal presentations were staged, including amateur and semi-professional concerts. This classical guitar solo collection for the intermediate to advanced player offers nine engaging and lyrical European and North American favorites of this bygone era. All of the solos are presented in standard notation only and played on authentic reproductions of period instruments on the book?s online companion recording. Author Joseph Mayes plays works by well-known guitarist-composers Carulli, Coste and Giuliani as well as the lesser-known but deserving ?Kathleen Mavoureen?Romanza? by Frederick N. Crouch arranged by Charles de Janon, and Felix Arndt?s ?Nola,? one of the era?s most popular ragtime piano themes, here transcribed and arranged by William Foden and the author. Includes access to online audio.

The Piano Guys' 2014 release debuted at the top of the New Age albums chart and also topped the Classical Albums Classical Crossover Albums and Internet Albums charts and took them into the top 12 on the Billboard 200 for the first time.Their arrangement of Let It Go (from Disney’s Frozen) from this album has received over 37 million views on Youtube.Wonders features 14 more of their unique and creative arrangements.This book features Piano arrangements with separate pull-out Cello part.The Piano Guys are on tour in the UK (Birmingham Nottingham Manchester Edinburgh and London) and Europe (Paris) in June2015.

10 Carols in the Settings of Classical Pieces-Classical Christmas Carols includes 10 beloved carols artfully arranged in the settings of well-known classical pieces for Piano solo. Excellent material for church services recitals or personal enjoyment.Titles include: The First Noel/Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) â?¢ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/The Wild Horseman (Schumann) â?¢ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke) â?¢ He Is Born/Psalm 19 (Marcello) â?¢ In the Bleak Midwinter/Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach) â?¢ Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming/Canon in D (Pachelbel) â?¢ O How Joyfully/Sonatina Op.55 No.3 (Kuhlau) â?¢Rock-a-Bye My Dear Little Boy/Etude Op.10 No.3 (Chopin) â?¢ Silent Night/Intermezzo (Mascagni) â?¢ Still Still Still/Arioso (Bach).Intermediate Level.

Arranged For Classical Guitar-This anthology contains nineteen of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan classics arranged in easily sight-readable versions for beginning to intermediate classical guitarists. All the favorites are here ranging fromsentimental ballads such as Little Buttercup Willow Tit-Willow and There Grew a Little Flower to more up-tempo 'patter' type pieces such as Oh! A Private Buffoon Kind Sir You Cannot Have theHeart and A Policeman's Lot. The aim has been to provide both a useful teaching resource and a light-hearted alternative to the more 'serious' music of the Classical Guitar repertoire. All the pieces lendthemselves extremely well to the common idiomatic textures of the Classical Guitar. A variety of melody and accompaniment styles are employed including block chords arpeggio patterns and passages of double-stopped thirdsand sixths. A number of the pieces are in easy first position format while others explore the common higher positions. The standard Guitar keys are utilized (C G D A E) but there are occasional more challengingtemporary modulations to 'difficult' keys such as E flat major. There are also instances of drop-D tuning which is often required in Classical Guitar playing.

Edward MacDowell (1860-1908) was the first American composer to achieve an international reputation. His music is lyrical intimate uncluttered and with a unique and quickly recognizable harmonicpalette.MacDowell's music does not aim for virtuosic display and obscure intellectual pleasures but rather it is about what is personal and what is felt by the individual in common circumstances. The ClassicalGuitar is at its best with music of smaller proportions that is personal evocative and imbued with opportunities for subtle expressive nuances in performance and so is eminently suited to MacDowell's music.Thiscollection includes his most famous composition To a Wild Rose as well as ten other beautiful Guitar solos in both standard notation and tablature. An outstanding recording by Aryeh Eller of all of the music isincluded.

GuitarTime Popular Folk: Level 1 is a collection of popular folk songs especially selected and arranged for classical guitar using first position notes and basic rhythms. These arrangements are appropriate for beginning classical guitar students of all ages. Performance notes are included to aid the student in learning the music and historical facts about the music are offered as necessary to enrich the student’s knowledge of folk music. Right-hand fingering is indicated where necessary. Guide fingers are introduced to aid left-hand movement.

An exciting collection of forty short classical masterpieces for Piano. Including work by J.S. Bach, Haydn, Schubert, Vivaldi, Handel, Beethoven and Mozart, this fabulous assortment of pieces offer ideal repertoire for concert performances or to learn and play from memory. Each of these classical pieces has been written or specially arranged for pianists working at Grade 2 to Grade 3 level. / Classique / Partition /

Arias for Tenor-Diction lessons on each aria in the series recorded by top language coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School plus International Phonetic Alphabet and word for word translationsWith these book/CDpackages that match the standard aria collections edited by Robert L. Larsen any singer anywhere has access to the best diction coaching available at a very affordable price. Each aria is recorded twice. In the first version thecoach recites the text as an actor would speak it showing flow of the language and the mood. The second version is a slow deliberate lesson allowing time for the student to repeat each line. These experienced language coachesadapt the ?R? in German and French in the slow versions for singers. They also are very sensitive to liaisons between word sounds in the musical settings. The book includes International Phonetic Alphabet for each ariaand word for word translations.The native speaking professional diction coaches from the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School are: Corradina Caporello for Italian Pierre Vallet for French Irene Spiegelmanfor German Kathryn LaBouff for English Yveta Synek Graff for Czech and Gina Levinson for Russian. Companion to 50481099 Arias for Tenor.

Developing Artist Original Keyboard Classics-A comprehensive and carefully graded introduction to authentic Keyboard Sonatinas selected from the established Piano repertoire and arranged to be suitable for the early-intermediate student.Alongside melodies by composers as celebrated as Attwood Czerny and Gurlitt this anthology of performance pieces includes a guide to help you understand Sonata and Sonatina form itself. You'll also find carefully devised warm-up exercises to help stretch and prepare the hands before tackling these musical challenges.With seven substantial Sonatinas on offer this collection is an ideal source for your first performance repertoire as well as an ideal opportunity togain valuable early experience of the rigours of classical piano playing.