SKU: MB.31007M
ISBN 9781513472393. 8.75x11.75 inches.
In musical styles ranging from blues to classical, jazz and modern Latin, the 32 original duets in this book are designed to improve sight reading on the guitar at all levels, beginner to advanced. Canadian guitarist and music educator, Michel H?roux suggests playing these short but complete pieces at different tempos, exchanging parts on repeats, playing select passages an octave higher, and analyzing the harmony?all towards becoming a better sight reader.Written in standard notation only, various meters and keys are explored; online recordings of the author double-tracking himself are provided to guarantee your success.
SKU: HL.50487498
ISBN 9790080131985. Bach (23 x 30,2 cm) inches. Hungarian, English, German. Ferenc Fodor; Zsuzsa Marnitz; Valeria Vass; Attila Dargay.
In 2020 the Picture Book for Guitar Players was reprinted with a renewed cover design and new title. This volume is intended for beginner guitarists and would like offer help for the practising of transition from one-part to two-part playing in particular, that is one of the most difficult tasks in the learning process. Pupils can learn through easy pieces various extended techniques on the guitar and practice the different positions and chords.The collection contains 30 well known transcriptions of European (mainly Hungarian) melodies. It is recommended to sing them as well, it helps to prime pupils for a more beautiful, musical performance.The book also includes several coloring pictures.
SKU: HL.50566004
ISBN 9781705150580. UPC: 196288017639. 9.0x12.0x0.48 inches.
Mauro Giuliani's Rossiniane, published between 1821 and 1828, are a series of six musical potpourris entirely based on the music of Gioachino Rossini. The potpourri was one of the most popular instrumental genres of the early 1800s, an assembly of musical themes with different origins combined into a single composition. In the absence of the modern means of reproducing music, they had a very important function: of bringing music, most often created for the theatre, into the home. Some important points can be deduced from Giuliani's epistolary exchanges: the first is that the Rossiniane were part of his own concert repertoire: the second is that Rossini was not only aware of the project which would bear his name, but also collaborated with Giuliani in some ways, providing him with some themes expressly composed for his works. The third is that Giuliani was well aware that these pieces represented a new development for his own compositions and for the musical panorama of the time, “a hitherto-unknown style.†This edition of the Rossiniane is based on the contemporary musical sources that have come down to us. It is enhanced by some remarks on interpretation that should help towards making an accurate and coherent reading of this distinctive and original musical text.
SKU: MB.WBM45M
ISBN 9780999698082. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This collection of 24 original fun-to-play compositions for guitar includes swing, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and even Latin jazz written in notation and tablature. Jumpin' Guitar Jam Tunes will enhance technique and enable the guitarist to develop a â??swinging picking style.â? The pieces are scored in differing keys in order to help explore the nuances of the guitar fingerboard. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: MB.98545M
ISBN 9780786695737. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
This volume is intended as a folio of arrangements from the repertoire of a working musician. As such, there is only a minimum of discussion about the technical aspects of playing. Students who have already dealt with the American style called fingerpicking or fingerstyle guitar, which is quite distinct from other kinds of guitar playing, will be at an advantage. The easiest arrangements here are early intermediate level, while the other end of the scale includes pieces that may challenge even a professional. Tunes within each section are presented generally in order of difficulty. The bulk of the tunes presented are fiddle tunes, with a couple of banjo tunes and several songs as well as tunes originally played on other instruments such as harp, pipes, or accordion. There are even a small number composed for the guitar. For the most part, differences in approach among the tunes here are unrelated to the instrumental sources. All the tunes are presented in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
SKU: UT.CH-321
ISBN 9790215326293. 9 x 12 inches.
Dediche< /i> is a series of short miniature pieces for solo guitar written in 1991 by Chiara Benati, an authoritative exponent of what can be called the School of Bologna, and who has devoted many pages of her catalogue to the guitar (Chiara won a first prize in 1986 at the Competition for Guitar Composition organized by the historic magazine Il Fronimo).From the point of view of the guitar idiom, it is striking how the compositional research of Chiara Benati (who does not play the guitar) has penetrated deeply into the nature of the instrument. In my job of adding the fingering to the pieces, I started from the precise indications concerning the strings already provided by the Composer, who meticulously imagined the instrumental result created by the play of resonances and the consequent precise distribution of the parts on different strings (let us think of the tremolos superimposed on different strings in the second Dedica and the counterpoint in three parts each written on its own musical stave), with a skilful use of glissandos and other instrumental effects.From the musical point of view, a similar meticulousness in writing is evident, shown, for example, by indicating the temporal separation between the figures by means of their spatial distance indicated in the score.The result is an instrumentally and musically rigorous writing which also helps the performer by appealing to his ability to empathize, following the indications written in the score and in the key, with the expressive atmosphere of the work, and through that specific aspect of controlled performance flexibility and sound sensitivity necessary to render it properly.These delicate miniatures, suffused with mystery and melancholy, and so masterfully written for the guitar, are in my opinion an important addition to the contemporary repertoire of the instrument. (Piero Bonaguri).
SKU: AP.1-ADV10402
UPC: 805095104028. English.
Exquisite sounds from Spain for young and adult guitar players. The compositions focus on different techniques---and it is always more fun to play together!
SKU: GH.CG-5991
Erland von Koch's 18 Monologues for various instruments are solo pieces that in an ingenious way explore the instruments different means of expression. The pieces are permeated by inspiration from Swedish folk music, melodies and rhythmic vitality.
SKU: UT.CH-234
ISBN 9790215324060. 9 x 12 inches.
Mattina presto (Early Morning)/ Shirok/ Sweet ArgentinaThe guitar's repertory is now widely varied and includes works that cover, in historical periods, all technical and interpretative aspects, from the single instrument to the guitar orchestra, passing to the duo, the quartet and the ensemble. What I thought to be important was a work that would include a comparison between the instruments, a dialog in which music flows between the instruments in a harmonized way, with moments of hard work and others of listening, almost to underline the friendship and the collaboration between the players... it is in that way that these songs of middle difficulty are developed, where the components of the orchestra not only have their part to play, they must also pay attention to the solo guitar playing the theme in counterpoint to themselves.The three compositions presented are of different inspiration: Mattina Presto is the awakening of the day, clear, as a spring morning. It's the easiest song, with it's simple melody that flits among the voices in the group; Scirok (Scirocco in Albanese) contains a theme inspired by balcanic music, signifying the interest of entering other populations to better understand their culture, as in Sweet Argentina, that begins with a tanguero rhythm, passing then to a slower and more delicate melody and by the end returning to the original popular danced rhythm. Three pieces in which I hope the game will not only help those who play to grow musically, but will also spark a culture interest, music born by the love for the instrument and the world that surrounds me.(G. Signorile).
SKU: DM.DMP-112035
ISBN 9790365316960.
A set of pieces for classical guitar. 12 different pieces, especially composed for the guitar by a very exceptional guitar player and teacher from The Netherlands. You can't stop playing when you started with this great album.
SKU: HL.50605198
ISBN 9781705164938. UPC: 196288068594.
My Piece Tema con Variazoni is inspired by Italian Baroque Music and is based on a hymn theme that I composed myself. It's not at all difficult but sounds yet full (Martin Klaschka). Martin Klaschka (*1963) studied music at Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart. Much of his energy is devoted to writing easy to intermediate pieces for different instruments and ensembles.
