Solo Guitar Works Vol.1

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. Saints and Fireworks The Music of Gordon Mizzi Volume Two is the second of two albumsof Gordon Mizzi's music which are available from Mel Bay Publications. This album takes its title from the newly released CD Gordon Mizzi Saints and Fireworks that has been recorded by Carlos Bonell one of today's mostcelebrated guitarists and which is available from Spearhead Music. This album contains a diverse collection of original works as well as transcriptions of Renaissance and Maltese folk music by Gordon Mizzi. The Branles de Malte byJean d'Estrée were originally composed by the French Knights of St. John in Malta in 1551 for the Dauphin of France. Gordon Mizzi has made guitar transcriptions of these five dances and this is the first time that they arebeing published. The Branles de Malte by Adrian Le Roy are also included. There are a number of original compositions. Saints and Fireworks a piece in two movements vividly represents Malta's village festas. Island Scenes aresix musical portraits of towns and villages dotting the landscape of Malta. They include Valletta- Barrakka Gardens San Giljan-After the Feast Mdina- Città Notabile the dreamy Comino-The Blue Lagoon Sliema- The Tower and the pulsatingly brash Paceville -Sin City. Three Love Poems : Hula Lahaina and Hana are influences from Hawaii. There are also two cradle songs Child Don't Cry and Ninna Nanna as well as folk inspired melodies such as NightCrossing and il- Maltija. The guitarist will find a veritable pot pourri of scents and sounds in this album.

Une des personnalités plus importantes dans le monde de la guitare Jazz, Larry Coryell a joué contre les meilleurs et présente ici un aperçu de son approche distinctive et fluide. Des héros bebop Sonny Rollins et Charles Mingus à superstars de fusion Chick Corea et John McLaughlin, guitare de Coryell jouant a honoré les enregistrements des étoiles les plus chaudes du Jazz, faisant de lui un guitariste de réputation énorme et le respect. Dans ce DVD de trois volets série Coryell analyse son propre point de vue Jazz, fournissant une méthode empirique de l'improvisation solo et corde. Volume 1 comprend : Major échelles entier au cou mineur, a diminué et la tonalité d'ensemble tonalités chromatismes Accents au sein de la cueillette de modèles arpèges Modes et les intervalles de construire une compréhension intellectuelle entre cordes et échelles des mouvements entre harmonie et basse allant au-delà de corde/échelle utilisation seule ligne improviser des changements des substitutions de corde / Guitare

Outstanding solos for the classical guitar from the fourteenth century to Bartok Includes works by Bach Carcassi Giuliani Mozart Shostakovich Sor and Stravinsky. For guitar players of all standards. Edited and transcribed byHarvey Vinson.

Ton Van Bergeyk launched his career as a musician during the late 1960s playing blues Harp and Ukulele in a duo setting, but he then switched to the acoustic Guitar and quickly learned and mastered the instrument using fingerstyle techniques. He started to transcribe and arrange classic ragtime compositions for fingerpicking Guitar and was discovered by Stefan Grossman during a tour in Holland. Stefan produced Ton's first solo album, Famous Ragtime Guitar Solos, in 1973. This contained 14 of Ton's arrangements of classic ragtime pieces and became a best seller. In 1975, Ton's second solo album, Guitar Instrumentals To Tickle Your Fingers, was released containing transcriptions and arrangements of novelty rags, early jazz and popular tunes of the 1930s and 1940s. In 1980, Ton's third solo album was released and continued his exploration of arrangements for solo fingerpicking Guitar, this time with a repertoire covering jazz, blues, contemporary pop and country and even Mexican folklore. This album was titled Lulu's Back In Town, Hot Guitar Solos. Ton also participated in several anthology projects, i.e. Novelty Guitar Instrumentals, I Got Rhythm, Masters of Ragtime Guitar, The Entertainer and How To Play Ragtime Guitar. All of Ton's albums are available as CDs as well as direct downloads from Stefan Grossman's Guitar Workshop, (www.guitarvideos.com) and include tab PDF booklets on the CDs. Ton recorded the audio lesson series Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar to teach phrase by phrase and measure by measure some of his most requested arrangements. This volume presents his renditions of Jelly Roll Morton's Kansas City Stomp and King Porter Stomp, the classic American Songbook tunes If I Had You, Moonlight Serenade / Niveau : Facile / Tablatures / Guitare Tablatures

Outstanding solos for the classical guitar from the fourteenth century to Bartok Includes works by Bach Carcassi Giuliani Mozart Shostakovitch Sor and Stravinsky. For guitar players of all standards. Edited by LeonidBolotine.

This book co-written by guitarist Seth F. Josel and composer Ming Tsao provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary performance techniques on the classical Guitar. It was inspired by a new generation of solo guitarists whose extraordinary technical and virtuosic skills have paved the way for a new understanding of instrumental performance practice. Detailed explanations are given for the instrument???s technical potential within the historical context of traditional Guitar technique. Composers will be interested in the in-depth analyses of contemporary Guitar literature featuring many examples of chamber and ensemble music.Four main chaptersdescribe:Techniques of the right and left hands.Special harmonies and percussive techniques.The main instruments of the Guitar family and their potential.Possible ways of notating contemporary Guitar literature.The examples discussed in the book are complemented by an enclosed CD and detailed charts on multiphonics bitones and percussion techniques.Seth F. Josel is among the leading figures of his generation in modern Guitar performance and has taken part in the premieres of more than 100 works as a soloist and ensemble member. A regular guest at Europe???s major contemporary music festivals he has worked with composers of the stature of Mauricio Kagel Helmut Lachenmann Tristan Murail and James Tenney and has played with such leading orchestras and ensembles as the New York Philharmonic the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Staatskapelle. From 1991 to 2000 he was a permanent member of the Ensemble musikFabrik. Today he lives in Berlin.Ming Tsao (b. Berkeley CA 1966) is professor of composition at Gothenburg University. His compositions have been performed amongst others by the Arditti Quartet ensemble recherche and the Stuttgart Opera (premiere of ???Die Geisterinsel??? in 2011). He is regularly involved in the Donaueschingen Festival the Witten Days of New Chamber Music the Darmstadt Contemporary Music Holiday Courses and Wien Modern. His works are published by C.F. Peters (Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig). He too lives in Berlin.

This collection of 12 songs from award-winning virtuoso guitarist Jesse Cook features highlights from his career transcribed note for note with tab. With this book guitarists can explore the diverse mix of flamenco classical and world beat styles that are signature to Cook's sound and play the exact melodies and solos heard on his recordings. Titles include: Alone Bogota by Bus Cafe Mocha Cascada Dance of Spring Fields of Blue Luna Llena Mario Takes a Walk Rain Switchback Tempest Virtue.

Here for the first time all of the important solo works for Guitar of Heitor Villa-Lobos have been assembled together into one convenient volume. Edited and with an introduction by Frederick Noad. Max Eschig no.: ME 9333