ISBN 9781513454993.

In this book, Dr. Lily Afshar has clearly laid out the music and fingerings for 48 beginning to intermediate-level pieces by Aguado, Bach, Carcassi, Milan, Mertz, Sor and other Renaissance through nineteenth-century composers. While many of these selections are set in first position for ease of reading, they are effective for teaching different rhythms and arpeggio techniques, as well as for learning to play simple intervals and three and four-note chords. These compositions were carefully chosen for their use in developing finger independence in both hands, and can be used to advance rest stroke, free stroke, arpeggio, and tremolo techniques. Dynamic markings have been added for interpretation if not originally indicated in the originals so, in addition to learning positions and note locations along the fretboard, youll have to pay attention to dynamic and tempo changes.Written in standard notation only, this book is ideal for private study, as a teaching and student recital sourcebook, or for inclusion in the syllabus for a high school or first-year collegiate guitar program.

Did you know you can play classical music on your 3-string cigar box guitar? Now for the first time 45 classical pieces arranged for the 3-string cigar box guitar tuned G-D-G. All the pieces have tablature (tab) and notation with a combination of fingerstyle and pick playing styles. A good selection from master composers Bach to Vivaldi. Listen to the audio tracks online to help learn the music quickly. ? 45 Classical Masterpieces for the 3-String Cigar Box Guitar ? Tablature and Notation ? Audio and Video Tracks Online ? Standard Cigar Box Guitar Tuning: GDG ? Fingerstyle and Pick Arrangements ? Beginner to Advanced Players ? Scales, Fingerboard Note Charts, Right-Hand Exercises ? Master Composers: Aguado, Albinoni, Bach, Beethoven, Bizet, Boccherini, Brahms, Carcassi, Carulli, de Visse, Debussy, Dowland, Frank, Giuliani, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Pachelbel, Petzold, Puccini, Purcell, Saint Saens, Sanz, Satie, Strauss, Sor, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

An Hour with the Guitar presents a careful selection of the most beautiful pieces of guitar literature. All the names familiar to every professional and amateur guitarist - Aguado, Carulli, Carcassi, Coste, Giuliani, Sor, and many more - are represented in this collection and ensure much stimulating variety. These pieces, with grades of difficulty progressing from very easy to moderately difficult, will give not only the beginner but also the advanced guitarist some valuable material for this teaching, entertainment and performance. Except for a few very beautiful studies, dry exercises habe been avoided in this book in the hope that every guitarist will use it for his hour of relaxation.

An Hour with the Guitar presents a careful selection of the most beautiful pieces of guitar literature. All the names familiar to every professional and amateur guitarist - Aguado, Carulli, Carcassi, Coste, Giuliani, Sor, and many more - are represented in this collection and ensure much stimulating variety. These pieces, with grades of difficulty progressing from very easy to moderately difficult, will give not only the beginner but also the advanced guitarist some valuable material for this teaching, entertainment and performance. Except for a few very beautiful studies, dry exercises habe been avoided in this book in the hope that every guitarist will use it for his hour of relaxation.

An Hour with the Guitar presents a careful selection of the most beautiful pieces of guitar literature. All the names familiar to every professional and amateur guitarist - Aguado, Carulli, Carcassi, Coste, Giuliani, Sor, and many more - are represented in this collection and ensure much stimulating variety. These pieces, with grades of difficulty progressing from very easy to moderately difficult, will give not only the beginner but also the advanced guitarist some valuable material for this teaching, entertainment and performance. Except for a few very beautiful studies, dry exercises habe been avoided in this book in the hope that every guitarist will use it for his hour of relaxation.

Francísco Tárrega (1852 ? 1909) è il fondatore della Scuola Chitarristica Spagnola, la solache può vantare più di 150 anni distoria e un unico filo conduttore.

Partitodall?opera di Fernando Sor (1778 ?1839) e di Dionisio Aguado (1784 ?1849), Tàrrega ampliò e affinò la tecnica, arricchendo la chitarra classica dinuovi mezzi espressivi e di repertorio. Tali innovazioni sono giunte fino ainostri giorni grazie ai suoi numerosi discepoli diretti, tra cui Miguel Llobet, Daniel Fortea e PascualRoch e indiretti: Andrés Segovia,Regino ed Eduardo Sainz de la Maza, AlirioDíaz, Pasqualino Garzia e molti altri.

Emilio Pujol (1886 ? 1980), che studiò con Tárrega durante gliultimi 7 anni di vita di quest?ultimo, raccolse l?eredità del Maestro in un monumentalemetodo, in 4 volumi, di inestimabile valore: la Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra,basada en los principios de la técnica de Tárrega, con una prefazione di Manuel De Falla, portando a termine ciò che perTárrega restò un sogno e che la morte prematura non gli permise neanche diiniziare.

Il CaprichoÁrabe, scritto nel1899, è forse la composizione più celebrata di Tárrega, dopo Recuerdosde la Alhambra.

In questarevisione ho tenuto presente la versione pubblicata in Spagna dall?editore UnionMusical Española e le biografie più importanti scritte su Tárrega:EmilioPujol: Tárrega (Edizioni: L?empreinte mélodique), Wolf Moser: Francisco Tárrega yla guitarra en España entre 1830 y 1960 (Edizioni: Piles) e AdriánRius Espinós: Francisco Tárrega, una biografíadocumental (Edizioni:Orphenica Lyra).

Alla luce di taliletture, ho ritenuto opportuno segnare le dinamiche e omettere alcuniabbellimenti e glissati. Lo stesso Tárrega, infatti, pare ebbe dei ripensamentia riguardo. Ho mantenuto, pertanto, quelli nelle ripetizioni, tagliando glialtri. Ho aggiunto e cambiato alcune diteggiature di entrambe le mani, considerandol?evoluzione della chitarra classica anche dal punto di vista della costruzione,nonché la tecnica flamenca. Infine, l?idea nell?Introduzione, di eseguire laseconda scala discendente, interamente con la sola mano sinistra, è, invece,totalmente mia.

Bojano, 29Settembre 2020.

Flavio Sala.

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For use in lessons or for your first concert performances - Easy Concert Pieces for Guitar contains easy and well known solo pieces carefully selected according to technical and musical demands: Volume 1 Easy, Volume 2 Intermediate. Besides original guitar pieces by Aguado, Mertz, Diabelli, Carulli, Sor or Carcassi there are readily playable arrangements of classical masterpieces such as Vivaldi's "Four Seasons", Handel's "Firework Music", Mozart's "Magic Flute" or Verdi's "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves". These arrangements are designed to give access to masterpieces of the concert repertoire and to promote enjoyment of classical music. With recordings of all pieces for download.

This volume contains everything needed for guitar lessons: 58 easy original guitar pieces by Aguado, Mertz, Diabelli, Carulli, Sor or Carcassi, but also easy-to-play arrangements of classical music from the fields of orchestral music, chamber music or opera. Among them are themes from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, Mozart's Magic Flute, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 or Verdi's Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. It is this volume's concern to make classical masterpieces of concert literature accessible to children by means of such rather easy arrangements and make them enjoy classical music.

This volume contains everything needed for guitar lessons: 58 easy original guitar pieces by Aguado, Mertz, Diabelli, Carulli, Sor or Carcassi, but also easy-to-play arrangements of classical music from the fields of orchestral music, chamber music or opera. Among them are themes from Vivaldi's Four Seasons, from Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks, Mozart's Magic Flute, Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 or Verdi's Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves. It is this volume's concern to make classical masterpieces of concert literature accessible to children by means of such rather easy arrangements and make them enjoy classical music.

45 New Classical Guitar Arrangements in Open D Tuning

Theclassical guitar book in open D guitar tuning presents a new, and I think, additionalway of approaching classical guitar repertoire. Tuning to an open chord, in this case, DADF#AD can have itsbenefits. The most obvious is that amajor chord can be played with a single finger, or in the key of D, with openstrings.

Everyattempt has been made to keep true to the original manuscripts, butoccasionally the tune is transposed from the original, or the odd note has beenaltered to make the pieces playable. Ihave kept the arrangements primarily in the keys of D, G or A to take fulladvantage of the open strings in D tuning. In short, this book may not be for the classical guitar purist butdoes expand the repertoire that is lacking with open tunings.

There is agood selection of graded pieces from prominent classical guitar composers like Aguado,Sor, Giuliani, Carcassi and Carulli, plus other well-known works by Bach, Dowland,Satie, Beethoven, de Visee, Diabelli, Grieg, Haydn, O?Carolan, Pachelbel,Paganini, Petzold, Sanz, Schumann and Vivaldi.

I also adapted24 of the Giuliani right-hand exercises, major and minor scales and arpeggios, plusfretboard charts to further develop your knowledge and technique in Open D. Each piece has notation, tablature in Open Dtuning, right- and left-hand fingerings, and performance markings. Audio tracks online.

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