This recent addition to the Acoustic Masterclass series features 12 beautiful acoustic guitar interpretations of classic Christmas music as performed by David Cullen Doug Smith and Laurence Juber. The included CD contains the original recordings from three beautiful Christmas CDs from Cullen Smith and Juber respectively. Arranged and recorded by Doug Smith winner of the 2006 Fingerstyle Championship at Winfield Festival. The CD alone will become one of your favorite holiday recordings and is included with this book at a great price!

In the past two decades tango has experienced a popular resurgence worldwide. Almost universally familiar as a dance form, tango is also a distinctive genre of song or canción that was born in the impoverished outskirts of late 19th-century Buenos Aires. Whether sung in Spanish, or as would happen later, in Italian or Russian. Twenty-six songs illustrate the growth and diversity of tango from its Argentine roots to its dissemination throughout Europe and into the Middle East and beyond. These songs are represented both in print - with melody lines, chord boxes and lyrics in their original language and in English - and through classic recordings by the original artists on the accompanying CD. The CD features 26 classic recordings by the original artists. Donald Cohen is a New York born lawyer, history and music professor, guitarist and folklorist, he has also devoted himself to studying and collecting music from Europe and the Americas. / Chant Et Guitare

from Schmelli's Hymnal for Voice and Guitar BWV 439-507. Johann Sebastian Bach?s arrangements of the ?69 Sacred Songs? from the Musical Hymnal by Georg Christian Schemelli (Leipzig, 1736) have long been part of the German language vocal concert repertoire and a mainstay in vocal pedagogy. Originally, only these 69 of the 954 hymns in the collection were published with a single bass line as the accompaniment. Bach?s contribution was to specify harmonies to be played over those same bass lines by adding figured bass numbers and symbols beneath each note.A figured bass line can easily be turned into a relatively simple guitar accompaniment or a more elaborate setting, offering a range of possibilities that make working with this music both interesting and rewarding for the guitarist. While other period and modern editions of the ?69 Sacred Songs? offer accompaniments for keyboard instruments, this Mel Bay publication features intermediate to advanced transcriptions exclusively for the guitar.Best suited to college-level players or advanced aficionados, this special Mel Bay Publications edition includes the vocal line with German lyrics and the guitar accompaniment transcribed from Bach?s figured bass lines. Written in guitar-friendly keys, 29 of the transcriptions employ a capo to achieve the original key designed for high voices. Without the capo, these same arrangements would be suitable to be sung by lower voices. The remaining 40 hymns are in their original guitar-friendly keys and so do not require a capo.This volume contains accompaniment settings of all 69 of the sacred songs and arias for which Bach wrote figured bass annotation. For performance variety and convenience, this book includes online access to PDFs of the ?Scores in their Original Keys,? and stand-alone ?Guitar Accompaniment,? and ?Bass Parts".

Conciones Populares (Popular Songs) have been harmonised and arranged for Voice and Guitar by the Spanish composer F. San Andres. It is a collection of a dozen Spanish songs first published in 1961. It is presented here in a high-quality glossy cover and would make the perfect gift for any singer-guitarist.Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish writer of plays and poems and is one of Spain’s most widely recognised artists in the field of drama. He came to epitomise the generation of ’27 and as such was also one of the leading cultural icons of his day.

This mini-cycle of three songs for Voice and in this instance Guitar are ranked among the greatest of Granados’s musical achievements. The blend of beautiful melody formal integrity and control in the accompaniment creates a remarkable work. The songs set the poetry of Fernando Periquet a contemporary Spanish writer and generally concern the theme of romantic love. The texts are in Spanish untranslated.Spanish composer and pianist Enrique Granados was active in the decades around the turn of the last century. Granados’s life and work were cut tragically short when the passenger ship on which he was sailing was bombed by a German U-boat in the English Channel. Heis best known for his suite for Piano Goyescas which has been arranged for other instruments written in 1911 around the time that these songs were written.

The Original First and Second Books including Dowland's Original Lute Tablature-Considered the greatest lute virtuoso and composer of the English school in the early 17th Century John Dowland (1563-1626) composed over 80 pieces of solo lute music. His peerless skills as an instrumentalist were hailed by poet Richard Barnfield who referred to Dowland as one '...whose heav'nly touch upon the lute doth ravish human sense.' As a composer Dowland displayed a versatility of mood with works ranging from the lighthearted to the deeply serious exquisitely melancholic vein in which he excelled.

Worship Band Playalong Volume 3-The Worship Band Play-Along series is a flexible tool for worship leaders and bands. Each volume offers five separate correlated book/CD packs: Guitar Keyboard Bass Drumset and Vocal.Bands can use the printed music and chord charts to play live together and members can rehearse at home with the CD tracks. Worship Leaders without a band can play/sing along with the CD for a fuller sound. The eight songs in each volume follow a similar theme for easy set selection and the straightforward arrangements are perfect for bands of any level.

Strum & Sing Guitar-The Rock Around the Clock: Strum & Sing Guitar songbook features sheet music for 50 fine golden oldies presented with lyrics and chords including All Shook Up Big Girls Don't Cry Blue Suede Shoes Earth Angel My Guy Please Mr. Postman Stand by Me Surfin' U.S.A Under the Boardwalk Walk like a Man and more.