Classical Guitar for the Young

Over 30 favorite classical pieces in standard notation and tablature including: Air on the G String (Bach) · Bridal Chorus (Wagner) · Canon in D (Pachelbel) · Clair de Lune (Debussy) · Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Tchaikovsky) · Greensleeves · Gymnopedie No. 1 (Satie) · Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach) · Ode to Joy (Beethoven) · Pavane (Fauré) · Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach) · Wedding March (Mendelssohn) · and more. The CD includes a recorded performance of each piece!

Plus de 200 morceaux du début de la Renaissance et du Baroque aux périodes classiques et romantiques. Inclues des oeuvres de Carcassi, Bach, Tarrega et Mozart. / Guitare / Partition

The composer says: For years, my fellow guitarists have been asking me to compose a solo classical guitar piece that reflects that most American of musical styles?the blues. Their prodding was the motivation for Periwinkle Memories; the inspiration for the piece, however, really came from a maestro of extraordinary skill, and a teacher of even more extraordinary patience, Elias Barreiro, my guitar teacher at the University of New Orleans. I have always tried to emulate in my performances the beauty of his interpretations, and to fuse in my compositions the power and emotion of the blues. The name, Periwinkle Memories was a serendipity. I was struck by the light purplish-blue hue of the periwinkle, and soon learned the history of the funnel-shaped flower (Vinca minor.) Though it now grows wild in parts of the United States it is native to Australia, some consider it an invasive weed, most admire its extraordinary beauty. Common herbicides won?t kill it. The periwinkle is too vigorous and hardy for that. And now it is not merely a begrudged part of the American landscape, it is a vibrant part of the American landscape, elegant, stubborn, and nearly native. Like the blues. And like that young recalcitrant student Maestro Barreiro worked so hard to mold so many years ago. Ogden Nash said, ?One man?s remorse is another man?s reminiscence.? Periwinkle Memories is a celebration of Maestro Barreiro, and of both facets of that adage in me. 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 Bes

This book comprises fourteen originally composed guitar duets at equivalent standard to AB Grades 1-3. It offers repertoire that will interest adults as well as younger guitarists. Some pieces are published here for the first time since the 19th century other items are previously unpublished. Notes on performance practice are included throughout the book helping students to develop a sense of musical style.

Thirty-seven original compositions from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries covering the broadest stylistic range have been carefully selected for this book. Some pieces are published here for the first time since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and will be of interest to both adult and young guitarists. To ensure accuracy the earliest and most reliable sources have been consulted and the book contains helpful notes on performance throughout. This book has been edited by Simon Wynberg.

We proudly present the matching folio to Neil Young's classic 1979 album. This souvenir folio includes note-for-note transcriptions with tab for all 9 tracks along with great colour photos and separate lyric pages

This book and 2-CD set was intended for the mature picker who desires great arrangements to the classic songs we hear sing and play. Included are great sounding solid songs which are fun to play but not with those ?impossible?blinding runs. This unique book is also perfect for the beginner who is ready to branch into the intermediate world of guitar. ?Amazing Grace? ?Blue Ridge Mountain Blues? ?When The Roses Bloom In Dixie Land? ?Georgia Mail? ?When You And I Were Young Maggie? are just a few of the 45 full blown songs in this terrific volume. Lyrics notation and TAB along with pictures performance notes and of course companion CDs are all included; anothermust-have from Steve Kaufman.

Guitar Solo. A dazzling new solo guitar piece from one of our most exciting young composers. Duration ca. 22 minutes.

13 Tangos von Astor Piazzolla-Play Piazzolla is a unique collection of 13 tangos by the Argentinian master of tango nuevo arranged for easy solo Guitar. The pieces have been skilfully arranged by Gary Ryan so that this wonderfully vibrant music can be easily enjoyed by younger Guitar players. Standard notation.

Par BARTOK BELA. Béla Bartók’s “For Children” is one of the best known pedagogical works for piano teachers of the twentieth century, second only perhaps to the same composer’s “Mikrokosmos”. It was based firmly on the huge number of folk songs he collected, recorded and studied with his colleague Zoltán Kodály. At the time, Bartók was offering something very new to piano teachers and their students. Siegfried Steinkogler became acquainted with “For Children” at the beginning of his guitar studies and, from them, learnt a great deal about melody and harmonisation. He has chosen 38 of the original 79 pieces to offer in arrangements for the guitar. They are presented with helpful fingerings, technical solutions and aids to familiarize the younger students with common notations. For beginners, ten of the pieces are played exclusively in the first position before a gently increasing level of difficulty helps the player broaden their skills. In these arrangements, Bartók’s ingenious teaching pieces will be as invaluable to guitarists as they have been to your pianists for over one hundred years./ Répertoire / 2 Guitares