The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! 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 Bess.

Jacques Ibert (1890-1962) studied at the Paris Conservatoire before embarking upon a successful composing career. The composer wrote for a variety of instruments and his works remain popular to this day Entr'acte for Flute or Violin and Guitar being no exception. Composed in 1935 Entr'acte is suitable to intermediate level flautists violinists and guitarists. Ibert was a unique composer who did not associate himself with any particular style. His music is generally lighthearted often reflecting the composer's wit and humour. Containing a variety of musical aspects and techniques and significantly composed for an unusual arrangement of Flute or Violin with Guitar accompaniment Ibert's Entr'acte is an exciting addition to the intermediate level Flute Violin and Guitar repertoire.

The most famous Tango of them all and one of the most famous pieces in the world! Originally written for the Donald Crisp film Don Q Son of Zorro the piece has become one of Denmark's most recognisable melodies. This version offers a choice of performance options: Flute and Guitar Violin and Guitar or a full Solo Guitar arrangement.

A series of Classical pieces ordered alphabetically by composer. E Composers For Flute Oboe or Violin with Guitar accompaniment by Armin Schmidt.

for Guitar, Violin, Mandolin, Banjo, Flute and other C Instr. Par DIX BRUCE. Avec ce paquet de livre/CD vous apprendre les mélodies et isolation sur 12 des progressions de corde plus populaires et les plus importants dans le swing et le répertoire jazz - cycle des quintes - majeure de la pratique et des progressions mineures avec II-V-I, I-VI-II-V-I, I-III-VI-II-V cordes changements - blues majeurs, mineurs et 6/8 - et beaucoup plus--tous fondés sur swing préféré et de jazz hits. Jouer avec une section rythmique de chaîne chaud : guitare, mandoline et basse avec des mélodies de plomb a joué au saxophone ténor. Chaque mélodie apparaît dans la notation standard pour les instruments de C, tablature pour guitare et tablature mandoline. L'enregistrement comporte toutes les mélodies à vitesse lente et régulière. Mélodies pour les mélodies sont comptabilisées à demi vitesse avec seulement guitare accompagnement avant chaque piste avec le groupe complet. Instruments sont isolées pour une flexibilité maximale. En ajustant le contrôle de l'équilibre sur votre chaîne stéréo, vous pouvez entendre 1) la pleine bande - 2) guitare et basse seulement (vous jouer la mélodie de plomb du livre) - ou 3) mandoline, mélodie, et... / Niveau : Débutant / Swing - Play Along / Recueil / Guitare, Violon, Mandoline, banjo, Flûte Traversiè

Score and Parts for Beethoven's Adagio arranged by Armin Schmidt for a Chamber Quartet comprised of Flute Violin Guitar and Piano.

The iconic minuet from Mozart’s Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is among the best known and most frequently performed works of classical musical. Originally composed for two Violins Viola Cello and Bass the work is most frequently performed in Orchestral arrangement though many other adaptations and arrangements have been created including this simplified version for an unusual combination of instruments.

The collection ???Combo Flamenco' is a new pedagogical work that includes Flamenco styles for four voices. Flamenco guitarists and musicians in general like flute-players sax players bass players violinists pianists percussionists??? will have ?new material for combo use or for individual practice with the same feeling of playing in a group.