Ce volume de la s�rie Women Composers pour guitare contient 20 compositions de la compositrice am�ricaine Caroline V. Hayden. Au XIXe si�cle, une grande quantit� de musique pour instruments � cordes pinc�es, comme la guitare, le banjo, la mandoline et la harpe, a �t� publi�e en Am�rique. Les danses populaires �taient la Polka, la Valse, la Mazurka, la Gavotte, la Schottische, la Marche et le Galop. Caroline V. Hayden �tait une repr�sentante importante de ce mouvement musical. This volume in the series of Women Composers for the guitar contains 20 compositions by the American composer Caroline V. Hayden. In the 19th century a large quantity of music for plucked string instruments, such as the guitar, banjo, mandolin and harp was published in America. Popular were dances such as the Polka, Waltz, Mazurka, Gavotte, Schottische, March and Galop. Caroline V. Hayden was an important representative of this musical movement.

ISBN 9781513459547. 8.75x11.75 inches.

This book of 53 intermediate-level guitar pieces is derived from Le Secret des Muses, a two-volume collection of lute tablature by Nicolas Vallet (c. 1583 c. 1642). Born in France, by 1614 Vallet had relocated to Amsterdam where he established a dance school and was active as a composer, lute teacher and leader of a consort that played at weddings and festivals. Le Secret des Muses is among the last published collections of French lute tablature intended for the 10-course Renaissance lute, which was ultimately supplanted by the larger 13-course Baroque model. Most of these pieces consist of traditional European dance forms, but also contains a few settings of popular lute themes and longer works suitable for concert performance are included. Written in standard notation only with occasional drop-D tuning, these pieces make excellent sight-reading and warmup material as well as historically significant concert selections.

ISBN 9781609745578. 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 from sentimental 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 the Heart' 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 lend themselves 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 thirds and 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 challenging temporary 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.