Celtic Music for Classical Guitar: Guitar: Instrumental Album

This edition is structured similarly to an instrumental method. It starts with 'easy' pieces and gradually becomes more demanding, while introducing new musical sounds. The aim of these small compositions is to coax beautiful music out of the guitar - music that is enjoyable to both players and audience alike - while using as few technical means as possible. / Guitare

‘…a true celebration of great and heartfelt music.’ Acoustic Guitar” John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee are two pivotal figures in the history of British folk music. Founding members of the British folk-rock group Pentangle in the 1960s guitarist John Renbourn and vocalist Jacqui McShee have been musical collaborators and innovators for four decades. Renbourn’s guitar style is a unique product of years of curiosity and investigation. Exploring the guitar in unusual and beautiful ways John takes his listeners through a luxuriant musical landscape of masterful playing warm vocals and witty asides. The consummate fingerstylist plays a unique folk-baroque fusion of Britishand Celtic folk music with jazz blues ragtime classical Middle Eastern and pre-Renaissance music. London-born McShee combines an enchanting soprano voice with an experimenter’s outlook. Together John Renbourn and Jacqui McShee are a magical treat. Tunes include: Watch The Stars My Johnny Was A Shoemaker Can’t Keep From Crying Dark Island Abide With Me Great Dreams From Heaven One Morning In May South Wind The Plains Of Waterloo I Am A Maid That’s Deep In Love Sandwood Down To Kyle The Bonny Greenwood Side Lindsay Medley: Bunyan’s Hymn / I Saw Three Ships / English Dance Kokomo Blues Bonus Tracks: John’s Talk At The Break Of The Day (Duo with Clive Carroll)

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar-To find a unique voice on so ubiquitous an instrument as the acoustic Guitar is quite an achievement; to do so within a centuries old idiom where the instrument has no real history is truly remarkable. Tony Manus has come to be recognised throughout the world as the leading Guitarist in Celtic music. In this DVD Tony talks about his influences and approach to Guitar playing as well as performing a wide array of tunes from jigs to reels to pop and jazz classics.

Celtic Fingerstyle Guitar Volume 2-The challenge for those who attempt to translate Celtic traditional music for fingerstyle guitar is to preserve the unique qualities which are the essence of the style. This has been achieved by taking a minimalist approach in arranging and by using alternate tunings. The minimalist direction is characterized by the thought that most of this music consists of but two elements: melody and rhythm. Harmonization in the classical sense tends to sound out of place. With this standard musical device unavailable successful approaches are found in fiddle-and-pipe-like embellishment of melody and rhythmic bass patterns.

Glenn Weiser. Centerstream Publications. Features 45 Irish and Scottish harp tunes (28 tunes are by Turlough O'Carolan) arranged at the intermediate level for solo guitar. Standard tunings are used throughout for classical guitarists as well as steel-string fingerstylists.

A dozen of the most beautiful traditional melodies from the British Isles and North America are arranged here as concert pieces with rich harmonies and variations. Carefully voiced and fingered for fluidity and effectiveness the collection offers a wide range of style and expression. ???Barbara Allen??? and ???The Three Ravens??? are strongly influenced by the Elizabethan lute tradition while ???John Riley??? and ???Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies??? have a more contemporary feel. ???Black Is the Color of My True Love???s Hair??? and ???Lament for Owen Roe O???Neill??? are studies in somber intensity the modal ???She Moved Through the Fair??? sounds the ancient connection between Arabic and Celticmusic and ???Banks of the Ohio??? provides an interlude of gentle bluegrass swing with a hint of gospel.