MASTERFUL ARRANGEMENTS FOR CLASSICAL GUITAR

Classical Masterpieces Arranged for Solo Guitar-Featuring some of the world's most beautiful classical pieces by Bach Beethoven Bizet Dvorak Greig Mozart Puccini Strauss Tchaikovsky Vivaldi and more this 34-piece collection also includes traditional Guitar repertoire by Albeniz and Tárrega. Like the highly acclaimed Classical Guitar Compendium (HL 00116836) it was compiled arranged and recorded by renowned English classical guitarist Bridget Mermikides. Presented in both standard notation and tablature with online audio demonstrations included these masterful arrangements are accessible for guitarists of all levels.

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.

Par . 20 beautiful pop songs, movie themes, and Broadway show tunes masterfully arranged (in standard notation and tab) and recorded by David Jaggs for classical guitar. David\'s YouTube performance videos have garnered over 1.2 million views! Songs include: Bridge over Troubled Water ? Candle in the Wind ? Don\'t Cry for Me Argentina ? Hallelujah ? I Don\'t Know How to Love Him ? Killing Me Softly with His Song ? Moon River ? Over the Rainbow ? Wonderful Tonight ? Your Song ? and more. The audio recordings are accessed online using the unique code in each book. The audio can be streamed or downloaded and includes PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right. / Date parution : 2022-07-20/ Tablatures / Guitare Classique

Bridget Mermikides est un professeur de guitare professionnel respecté fort de 30 ans d'expérience. Formée à la Royal Academy of Music, Mermikides est examinatrice externe au Royal College of Music de Londres et a enseigné dans de nombreuses écoles et universités d'été. Sa vaste production d'arrangements pour solistes et ensembles est publiée par Hal Leonard, la dernière édition Masterful Arrangements for Classical est désormais disponible à la vente. Cette dernière publication offre 35 magnifiques morceaux enregistrés et arrangés pour guitare classique solo en notation standard et en tablature. Des enregistrements de Bridget interprétant chaque pièce sont également accessibles en ligne en téléchargement ou en streaming. Titres inclus : Andante Largo op. 5 no. 5 (Sor) - Andante - Sonate pour violon no. 2 (Bach) - Valse Coppélia (Delibes) - The Entertainer (Joplin) - How Can I Keep from Singing (Lowry) - Humoresque (Dvorak) - Sicilienne (Paradis) - Tristesse op. 10 no. 3 - Valse no. 15 op. 39 (Brahms) - et bien d'autres. / Guitare / Hal Leonard

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 "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. 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. 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).

The tenth concerto in B minor in L'Estro Armonico (best translated as The Harmonious Inspiration) which is edited here in A minor - for four solo guitars - is one of the most famous in the entire collection -- indeed inVivaldi's entire output. Scored for four solo violins two solo violas solo violoncello and an strings orchestra. Johann Sebastian Bach not only admired Vivaldi's Opus 3; he copied it openly. In a general sense the Vivaldipieces gave impetus to much that is in the German master's Brandenburg Concertos. More particulary six concertos of Vivaldi's Opus 3 were copied by Bach as the basis for six of his concertos: two for 0rgan (BWV 593 and 596 basedon Opus 3 nos. 8 and 11 respectively) three for solo harpsichord ) BWV 978 972 and 976 based on Opus 3 nos. 3 9 and 12 respectively) and one for four harpsichords and orchestra in A minor (BWV 1065 based on Opus 3 no. 10).Bach frequently rewrote concertos scored for one kind of instrument substituting another. It is evident that Bach thought not so much in terms of the violinistic nature of the originals but in their harmonic and rhythmicpotential which could be realized on any instrument. Since Bach has already justified an arrangement of Opus 3 number 10 by the great aesthetic success of his four-harpsichord version it serves to reason that an arrangementfor four guitars is equally valid. Just as Bach preserved everything of the original Vivaldi and added only a few doubling to accomodate the left hands of the harpsichordists so in this version the substitution of guitars is donewith little or no change of original-notes. The arpeggios especially prominent in the second movement lend themselves ideally to guitar playing and the ability of the guitar to play both lyrical lines as well as passage worksuits the violinistic lines and passages of the original.

Works by Albeniz, Bach, Dowland, Granados, Scarlatti, Sor and other Great Composers. More than 50 classic guitar pieces from rarities to popular favorites, including works by Albeniz, Bach, Dowland, Granados, Scarlatti, Sor and other great composers. Transcribed, arranged and edited by David Nadal. Guitarists at every level will find this sturdy, attractive, modestly priced collection of enduring works an indispensable addition to their musical libraries./ Recueil / Guitare

Learn the fundamentals of creating and playing solo guitar arrangements from the master teachers at Acoustic Guitar magazine. Enrich your playing with the expressive dynamic symphonic textures of solo fingerstyle guitar. With the guidance of master teachers you'll learn to build simple melodies into complete guitar arrangements understand fingerings that will bring intimidating chords within your reach and put you at ease with country blues classical techniques Celtic music and more.

This matching folio is now available again and re-issued with a new cover to coincide with the re-release of the digitally re-mastered classic album.Words and music of Ticket To Ride I Need You Help! Yesterday Your Going To Lose That Girl plus nine more Beatles greats. Piano/vocal arrangements with guitar chord boxes.