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24 Transcriptions for Guitar-For guitar players who want to expand their repertoire: This collection provides a fantastic introduction to the works of John Dowland containing the easiest of his compositions arranged in their order of difficulty. Dowland ranks among the outstanding figures in the history of 16th- and 17th-century European lute music. Martin Hegel arranged the works originally composed for lute so that they can now be played on the guitar at an intermediate level. The edition is suited for both teaching and playing in one's spare time. Dowland for Guitar is part of the Schott Guitar Classic series. The editor Martin Hegel is dedicated toexpanding the guitar repertoire in a varied and sensible way and making popular works of music history accessible even to guitar players at an intermediate level. His transcriptions ranging from easy to intermediate are perfectly adapted to the characteristics of the guitar. They present an opportunity to guitar players to experience classics and masterpieces on their own instrument: be it contrapuntal masterpieces by Johann Sebastian Bach and symphonic music by Mozart ? or be it lute music from the Renaissance era.

Express yourself through the beautiful voice of the solo Guitar.Solo Guitar Playing can teach even the person with no previous musical training how to progress from simple single-line melodies to mastery of the guitar asa solo instrument. Fully illustrated with diagrams photographs and over 200 musical exercises and repertoire selections this book offers thorough instruction in every phase of classical guitar playing.Completecoverage of individual skills includes:Basic techniqueReading music memorizing and ear-trainingMastering the fingerboardBuilding dexterity and speedDeveloping tone color andmusical phrasingPosition playingInterpretationSince its first printing in 1968 Frederick Noad's Solo Guitar Playing has been used by countless students and teachers of classical Guitar. Thefourth edition features revised and updated exercises and an expanded selection of solo Guitar repertoire gleaned from the best-selling Frederick Noad Guitar Anthology.

Arranged For Classical Guitar-This anthology contains nineteen of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan classics arranged in easily sight-readable versions for beginning to intermediate classical guitarists. All the favorites are here ranging fromsentimental ballads such as Little Buttercup Willow Tit-Willow and There Grew a Little Flower to more up-tempo 'patter' type pieces such as Oh! A Private Buffoon Kind Sir You Cannot Have theHeart and A Policeman's Lot. The aim has been to provide both a useful teaching resource and a light-hearted alternative to the more 'serious' music of the Classical Guitar repertoire. All the pieces lendthemselves extremely well to the common idiomatic textures of the Classical Guitar. A variety of melody and accompaniment styles are employed including block chords arpeggio patterns and passages of double-stopped thirdsand sixths. A number of the pieces are in easy first position format while others explore the common higher positions. The standard Guitar keys are utilized (C G D A E) but there are occasional more challengingtemporary modulations to 'difficult' keys such as E flat major. There are also instances of drop-D tuning which is often required in Classical Guitar playing.

12 Guitar and Lute Pieces-Graded collection of Baroque repertoireFor students with 8-9 years playing experienceComplete with play-along CDThe fourth and final volume in the Baroque Guitar Anthology series contains 12 original pieces by composers of the 17th and 18th centuries transcribed for guitar by co-author Stuart Willis. Including pieces by Bach Weiss Kellner and Corbetta amongst others it presents a carefully selected range of works and as with the other volumes in the series is ideal for any players interested in gaining an insight into the richness and variety of the Baroque guitar and lute repertoire.The book contains composer biographies andteaching notes on all of the works and is accompanied by CD recording of all pieces performed by Jens Franke. Suitable for students of c.8-9 years of playing experience or those of grades 7-8 level.

The pieces and etudes you need to develop your first classical guitar repertoire. This book and CD package contains delightful repertory of pieces for the beginning or intermediate player. The selections are drawn from allperiods of classical guitar literature and have been newly arranged and edited by Jerry Willard.All the music in both standard and tab notation to fifty gems from the beginner's repertoire together with full-lengthperformances on the accompanying CD.

Media Type : Book Level : Intermediate Musical Genre : Classic Number of pages : 256 This collection presents, for the first time, the complete Mazurkas of Frederic Chopin arranged for solo classical guitar. The Mazurka is the only form the composer embraced throughout his lifetime. The distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous dances to deep and complex extended works. Always achingly melodic and featuring surprising harmonies not evident in his other compositions, the Mazurkas are a true monument to Chopin's genius. These new arrangements were prepared with rigorous fidelity to the originals, while never sacrificing true playability. Careful attention to every detail of execution combined with thorough notes on each piece and the folk dance tradition that inspired them to make this unique offering truly user-friendly. Musically beautiful, idiomatic and accessible, this monumental collection is a breathtaking addition to the guitar repertoire. Written in standard notation only.

The product of a 14 year research project this book contains over 350 studies to thoroughly train the right hand of classical guitarists in the use of all five fingers - adding the little finger to the present four fingertechnique. These studies build a five-finger technique in the playing of chords arpeggios tremolos and harmonics beginning with the thumb and one-finger combinations and increasing in complexity to the thumb and four fingers.The studies are played over easy yet interesting left hand progressions up and down the fingerboard. Postlewate demonstrates how to develop your own right hand studies by including examples from standard classical guitarrepertoire pieces by Fernando Sor Federico Moreno Torroba and Heitor Villa-Lobos at the end of the book. This book is a companion to MB 98711 - HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS and other compositions (music composed transcribed arrangedand edited by Charles Postlewate for the guitar using five fingers of the right hand) and its accompanying 60-minute CD HOMAGE TO VILLA-LOBOS (MB 98711CD). Spanish Description [Este libro es el resultado de unproyecto de investigación de 14 años de duración. Este incluye más de 350 estudios para entrenar la mano derecha del guitarrista clásico a usar los cinco dedos-añadiendo el dedomeñique a la técnica actual de cuatro dedos. Estos estudios desarrollan una técnica de cinco dedos para tocar acordes arpegios trémolos y armónicos empezando con combinaciones del pulgar y undedo y aumentando en complexidad al uso del pulgar con los cuatro dedos. Los estudios se tocan sobre progresiones fáciles pero interesantes de la mano izquierda por el diapason. Postlewate le muestra cómodesarrollar sus propios estudios para la mano derecha a base de ejemplos del repertorio tradicional de la guitarra clásica por Fernando Sor Federico Moreno Torroba y Heitor Villa-Lobos incluídos al final del libro.

This anthology compiled by Frederic Zigante presents original Guitar music written in the first 70 years of the 20th century by famous non-guitar-playing Italian composers. The works by Ottorino Respighi Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Giorgio Federico Ghedini Gian Francesco Malipiero Franco Margola Bruno Bettinelli and Gofreddo Petrassi are definitely representative of Italy's excellence in music during this period also in their different styles. We start with Ottorino Respighi's unfinished Variazioni (1909) - the first attempt by a twentieth-century Italian composer to write for the Guitar - followed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's highlypopular Taranetella and Capriccio diabolica - now classics in the Guitar repertoire - and Goffredo Petrassi's masterpiece Suoni notturni. This anthology also includes other less well-known but still brilliant pieces that rightly deserve the attention of skilled performers.