Classical Guitar Tunes - English Folk Songs. This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barré chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. ?It?s an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian. ?These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition.? Gerald Garcia

This book contains all 60 of William Bay?s guitar solos found in his three Christmas solo collections: Guitar Picking Tunes ? Beautiful Carols of Christmas, Guitar Picking Tunes ? Christmas in the British Isles, and Guitar Picking Tunes ? An Early American Christmas. In this volume, all solos are presented in notation only. Includes access to an online recording of the author performing each piece.
A Boy is Born in Bethlehem
A Virgin Unspotted
Angels We Have Heard on High (Gloria)
As with Gladness Men of Old (Dix)
Away in a Manger
Away in a Manger (Cradle Song)
Baloo, Lammy
Beautiful Star
Blessed Be That Maid Marie
Carol of the Birds
Comfort, Comfort Now My People (Freu Dich Sehr)
Coventry Carol
Ding Dong, Merrily on High
Down in Yon Forest
Exultation
French Noel
Go Tell It on the Mountain
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Great Creator
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
He is Born, the Divine Christ Child (Il est Né)
Hush My Babe, Lie Still and Slumber
I Saw Three Ships
In the Bleak Midwinter
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
Lancaster (As I Sat on a Sunny Bank)
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (Picardy)
Lo, How a Rose E?er Blooming (Es ist ein Ros)
Mary Gave Birth to the Son of God
Mary Had a Baby/What Yo? Gonna Call Your Pretty Little Baby'
My Dancing Day
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
O Little Town of Bethlehem (St. Louis)
Of the Father?s Love Begotten (Divinum Mysterium)
On Christmas Night (Sussex Carol)
Once in Royal David?s City
Remember
Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow
Saw You Never (Chartres)
See Amid the Winter?s Snow
Silent Night (Stille Nacht)
Sing We Now of Christmas (Noël Nouvelet)
Star in the East
Star in the Night
Still, Still, Still
The Angel Gabriel from Heave Came (Gabriel?s Message)
The Babe of Bethlehem
The Bagpiper?s Carol
The Cherry Tree Carol
The Devonshire Carol/The Moon Shines Bright (Medley)
The First Noel
The Huron Indian Carol
The Nativity (Rorate)
The Rocking Carol
The Shepherds? Star
The Snow Lay on the Ground (Venite Adoremus)
Wexford Carol
What Child is This'
/ Partitions variété - pop - rock / Variété internationale / Guitare tablatures / MEL BAY

A great collection of 60 jazz standards arranged especially for beginning-level guitarists. Songs include: All the Things You Are • Cherokee (Indian Love Song) • Fly Me to the Moon • Harlem Nocturne • I Hear a Rhapsody • Imagination • Is You Is or Is You Ain't (Ma' Baby) • Moon River • The Nearness of You • A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square • Polka Dots and Moonbeams • Stardust • Stormy Weather (Keeps Rainin' All the Time) • When Sunny Gets Blue • and more.