Free to Solo: Guitar: Instrumental Album

An exceptional collection which brings together twenty-eight beloved and favourite works from the classical repertiore all in faithful and complete arrangements for solo guitar. With pieces by the likes of renowned composers Mauro Giuliani Fernando Sor and Chopin; these are all well known and popular melodies that remain fresh and expressive today. Presented in guitar tablature format this is a must have for classical guitarists who want to extend their repertoire with popular recognisable but beautiful pieces.

Express yourself through the beautiful voice of the solo Guitar.Solo Guitar Playing can teach even the person with no previous musical training how to progress from simple single-line melodies to mastery of the guitar as asolo instrument. Fully illustrated with diagrams photographs and over 200 musical exercises and repertoire selections this book offers thorough instruction in every phase of classical guitar playing.Complete coverage ofindividual skills includes:Basic techniqueReading music memorizing and ear-trainingMastering the fingerboardBuilding dexterity and speedDeveloping tone color and musical phrasingPositionplayingInterpretationSince its first printing in 1968 Frederick Noad’s Solo Guitar Playing has been used by countless students and teachers of classical Guitar. The fourth edition features revised and updatedexercises and an expanded selection of solo Guitar repertoire gleaned from the best-selling Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology.

Guillermo Diego's Album Pieces for Solo Guitar Volume I embody a collection of original works conceived by this recognized Mexican composer for classical guitar. These pieces have being written with different musical languagesthat goes from the inspiration in Mexican styles to free pieces that use contemporary and different resources that belongs to the guitar concerto style. This works are plenty of musical colors and offers different challenges tothe guitarist. The writing is completely idiomatic very natural for the guitar; it is music in which one the professional finds an artistic meaning but also the students will find the elements to improve his technical and willnear them to original works that have being composed recently and inspired in Mexican and Latin American music. The publication of this book is a premiere and will give to the guitarist part of the knowledge of what it is happencurrently in Mexican classical guitar. Guillermo Diego is a well-known composer into the sphere of classical guitar who has being recognized for his contributions to the art of the guitar.

A very representative collection of music from the Renaissance and Baroque periods skillfully adapted for solo guitar from lute and piano works. This book contains well-recognized pieces by master composers many of which havealready become essential repertoire for the classical guitar. Compiled with the performance skills of the beginner guitarist in mind this collection also fulfills repertoire requirements of the student guitarist as well asproviding valuable exercises in sight-reading in standard notation for the more intermediate and advanced performers.

An exact contemporary of Bach Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750) was one of the greatest Lutenists of all time. He was also a prolific and brilliant composer. This collection of arrangements for solo Guitar is an ideal introduction to Weiss's music. The ten varied pieces were carefully chosen for their musical character and technical suitability. Placed in order of difficulty they reflect the range of skills required for Baroque repertoire at intermediate and advanced levels. Stylish and idiomatic adaptations preserving the original ornamentation and left-hand slurs. Core repertoire for Grades 6-8 with pieces on the ABRSM Guitarsyllabus. Carefully considered fingering both clear and consistent. Advice on ornaments including full realizations.

Edizione critica di Frédéric Zigante. The Cinq Préludes by Heitor Villa-Lobos represent the Brazilian composer?s last work for solo guitar and were written in the summer of 1940. They do not constitute a single cycle, but rather a heterogeneous collection, similar in spirit to a collection of pages from an album, with each one developing, in its own individual way, a different stylistic principle. In terms of instrumental technique, Heitor Villa-Lobos places the Préludes in a kind of ideal balance point between the still nineteenth-century writing style of the Suite populaire brésilienne and the daring instrumental experimentation of the Douze Études. In the present edition, the manifold editorial issues concerning Heitor Villa-Lobos? guitar music have been affronted by looking at of all of the sources available today: these efforts have thus enabled us to put together a more reliable text than those before it both in terms of the notes and the fingerings.

Express yourself through the beautiful voice of the solo Guitar.Solo Guitar Playing can teach even the person with no previous musical training how to progress from simple single-line melodies to mastery of the guitar asa solo instrument. Fully illustrated with diagrams photographs and over 200 musical exercises and repertoire selections this book offers thorough instruction in every phase of classical guitar playing.Completecoverage of individual skills includes:Basic techniqueReading music memorizing and ear-trainingMastering the fingerboardBuilding dexterity and speedDeveloping tone color andmusical phrasingPosition playingInterpretationSince its first printing in 1968 Frederick Noad's Solo Guitar Playing has been used by countless students and teachers of classical Guitar. Thefourth edition features revised and updated exercises and an expanded selection of solo Guitar repertoire gleaned from the best-selling Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology.

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