ISBN 9781610656399. This superb collection features 31 solo guitar settings of a colorful spectrum of music from Brazil, Venezuela, Columbia, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay. The music is derived largely from 19th and 20th century piano literature. While many anonymously composed selections are included here, most of these tunes were written by professional musicians who happened to be pianists, band directors or arrangers. Typical of the period, some orchestral scores appears as piano reductions, which Professor Barreiro has also used as a source for his guitar transcriptions. All of these selections are presented in standard notation and tablature with historical and performance notes. A companion audio is included featuring 16 selections from the book performed by Barreiro. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781609745660. Elias Barreiro has compiled and arranged 15 select works of Enrique Granados for solo classic guitar. Included are selections from six of his pieces for piano. All in standard notation, with the author's suggested fingerings, and tablature.

ISBN 9781610657044. A collection of danzas by five of the most important nineteenth and twentieth century Puerto Rican composers: Juan Morel Campos, Luis R. Miranda, Angel Mislan, Manuel G. Tavarez and Braulio Dueno Colon. All songs are beautifully arranged by Elias Barreiro, with score and first and second guitar pull-out parts; all in standard notation. A companion online audio recording of all nine songs is also included. Includes access to online audio.

ISBN 9781619119062.

An outstanding collection of 33 classic guitar solos transcribed from piano works by Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, and many others. Cuban song and dance rhythms have had a global impact. These arrangements capture the rhythms, styles, and moods of the Cuban contradanza, danza, vals, cancion and criolla of the 19th to early 20th centuries. The available online audio features Segovia student and Tulane University professor Elias Barreiro performing his arrangements of the multi-faceted music of Cuba. Written in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.

Song List:

El Colibri

El Faro

Gratitud

Cancion De Cuna

ISBN 9781609745936. The thirty-eight Danzas Cubanas of Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905) were originally written for the piano and conceived as "a page in the album of the Romantic Century". Together with improvised components, this music reflects the popular melodic and rhythmic unity which reached its apex in Cuban dances as performed at dance academies. This edition presents all 38 engaging pieces in standard notation for solo guitar.

ISBN 9781609741075. Select "Cuban Dances" by 19th century Cuban composer Ignacio Cervantes (1847-1905). Although Cervantes respected the binary form established by his predecessor Manuel Saumell, it was the romanticism of Cervantes' dances which distinguished the final evolutionary phase of the "contradanza". They were conceived by Cervantes as "a page in the album of the Romantic Century". This group of Cuban Dances were originally written for the piano and arranged here for flute and guitar in standard notation only with separate pull-out sections for guitar and flute.

ISBN 9781609743970. The lullaby, a particular genre of song, is a gentle expression of intense emotion a caregiver uses to express boundless love to the child. The soothing melody of the lullaby sung from the motherICOs tender voice provides the infant with an inner feeling of peace and comfort. These love songs end up being the childICOs earliest memory of comfort and affection. The lullaby leaves such a lasting impression that it is recalled later in life and sung to subsequent generations for the same purposes for which it began. The lullabies in this collection are arranged for classic guitar solo (without vocals) in notation and tablature.

ISBN 9781619118324.

The result of decades of experience in teaching the classical guitar, this method introduces the student to the earliest stages of learning how to play the classical guitar, from learning how to read music to becoming an accomplished player. This gradually progressing approach covers scales, including scales in thirds, sixths and octaves in all major and minor keys, arpeggios, chords, slurs, harmonics, and more. The technical aspects in this book are supplemented with a vast number of exercises and solos, from easy to more advanced, including repertoire music to make the process of learning to play the guitar a most enjoyable experience. Written in standard notation only.

ISBN 9781619118133.

This great collection of 19th century music is a recognition of Cuban composers who along with Manuel Saumell and Ignacio Cervantes produced a rich legacy of music in both popular and classical genres. Written in standard notation.

ISBN 9781609741082. Select "Contradanzas Habaneras" by 19th century Cuban composer Manuel Saumell (1817-1870). Saumell is known as the "Father of nationalism in Cuban music." In more than 50 Contradanzas Habaneras, Saumell never repeated himself, for within those 8 or 16-bar phrases, he was capable of astounding rhythmic and melodic invention. This group of contradanzas were originally written for the piano and arranged here for flute and guitar by Elias Barreiro. Presented in standard notation only with music for flute, guitar and score.