SKU: BA.BA11555
ISBN 9790260108776. 31 x 24.3 cm inches. Illustrations: Nemeckova, Jitka.
This children’s album by renowned Czech composer-guitarist Lukáš Sommer reflects the latest trends in playing and teaching the guitar. It is suitable for the first three years of lessons. Some of the pieces have even been performed by children and young guitar students at competitions and concerts in Europe.Each of these little programme pieces is written in a different style with brief explanations of its technical features. Several are composed in an open-ended form that allows players to define the rhythm or to add an accompaniment on open bass strings. In this way the author grants leeway to the learners’ creativity and stimulates their musical imagination.The pieces are easy to play and the edition comes with attractive illustrations.
SKU: AP.18457
ISBN 9788863880502. UPC: 038081171852. Spanish.
About Basix! Series
Basix is all you need to take off with your instrument. Alfred has worked hard to help you start learning today with this easy-to-use, comprehensive series. You won't get frustrated by moving too fast or bored by moving too slow! Included are photographs of many great performers to fire your imagination and help you stay focused on becoming a star yourself! To top it off, you can put what you learn to work when you play along with the companion CD. Set your sights high by beginning with Basix -- the series that will get you there!
SKU: RM.DAGO03268
ISBN 9790231032680.
SKU: PR.114423450
ISBN 9781491135365. UPC: 680160687534.
Imagination mixed with local authenticity are among the hallmarks of the legendary Argentinian composer and guitarist Pujol. TRES PIEZAS VIAJERAS is clothed as a travelogue, yet it is also a dance suite bringing together the main musical genres of the Rio de la Plata district of Buenos Aires. The “Bremen†movement (composed in Germany) is a modern tango, “Pesadumbre†is a slow milonga (an older folk dance that gave rise to tango), and the “Ezeiza†movement is an urbanized treatment of the candombe dance, known for its dizzying speed. Each movement may be played separately as well as in the complete setting making this work a versatile and stimulating addition to the repertoire.TRES PIEZAS VIAJERAS (Three Traveling Pieces) emerged during a trip to Germany in 2021. Its three movements bring together the three musical genres of the Rio de la Plata area: Tango, Milonga, and Candombe. “Bremen†is a characteristic modern tango written on a bass line that “walks†the heaviness of an urban and warm rhythm. “Pesadumbre†(Sorrow) is an air in Milonga Campera style (Milonga from the countryside), in a slow tempo, portraying the lethargy of a melancholy siesta. “Ezeiza†(a town near the international airport in Buenos Aires) is an air in Candombe style: an urban Candombe of great rhythmic vivacity. It presents a rhythm that at times bumps into itself and, at other times, reaches an extremely fast, dizzying, and violent rhythm.Las TRES PIEZAS VIAJERAS surgieron durante un viaje a Alemania en el año 2021. Son tres piezas que reúnen los tres géneros musicales del área del Rio de la Plata: el Tango, la Milonga y el Candombe. “Bremen†es un caracterÃstico tango de vanguardia escrito sobre una lÃnea del bajo que “camina†la pesadez de un ritmo urbano y caluroso. “Pesadumbre†es un aire de Milonga Campera, de tiempo lento, andante, que nos cuenta el letargo de una melancólica siesta. “Ezeiza†es un aire de Candombe. Un Candombe urbano de gran vivacidad rÃtmica. Nos propone un ritmo que por momentos se tropieza consigo mismo y, en otros momentos, alcanza un ritmo extremadamente rápido, vertiginoso y violento.
SKU: GI.G-018066
English, Spanish, Bilingual.
Conforms to the official English and Spanish liturgical texts for the United States. Inspirada en las armonÃas y el contrapunto de la música clásica estilo barroco, pero utilizando un lenguaje musical moderno apropiado para una liturgia multicultural, Misa Luna está construida de una forma imaginative y versátil. Sus melodÃas son fáciles de aprender para una comunidad angloparlante, hispanohablante o bilingüe, y su cÃrculo de acordes es simple para los guitarristas. Al ser acompañada por órgano y trompeta tanto por guitarra y percusión esta música bella elevará la dignidad de las celebraciones.  Inspired by the harmonies and counterpoint of classical Baroque music, but using modern musical language appropriate for a multicultural liturgy, Misa Luna is imaginatively and versatilely built. Its melodies are easy to learn for an English-speaking, Spanish-speaking or bilingual community, and its chord circle is simple for guitarists. Whether accompanied by organ and trumpet or by guitar and percussion, this beautiful music will elevate the dignity of your celebrations.  Coro a dos voces, cantor, y asamblea | Two-part choir, Cantor, and Assembly.
SKU: PE.40784
ISBN 9780739094839. UPC: 038081456867. English.
Aaron Shearer's Classic Guitar Technique is used by serious guitarists all over the world and has long been one of the definitive classic guitar methods. The Shearer Method: Classic Guitar Foundations, Shearer's final work, is the first in a series that encapsulates his lifetime experience as America's premier classic guitar pedagogue. This work is a step-by-step curriculum based on Aaron's innovative and common sense approach that incorporates all the advantages of modern technology. The method includes 63 videos for up-close aural and visual learning, 74 new solo and duet compositions and arrangements (made exclusively for this method by Dr. Alan Hirsh), as well as works by Sor, Carcassi, Giuliani, and more. Plus, recorded tracks masterfully illustrate nuance, tone, and musicality. The book even includes Alfred Music's exclusive TNT 2 software that allows you to slow down and loop tracks for careful practice. In addition, a complete online supplement is available for teachers and students that want a deeper understanding of Shearer's work. The book does not replace Shearer's original classic. It augments and expands on it in ways not imaginable in the early '60s when the original was published. It's a must-have to complete the library of any classic or fingerstyle guitarist! The Shearer Method Classic Guitar Foundations is not just a book but a media experience.
SKU: UT.CH-321
ISBN 9790215326293. 9 x 12 inches.
Dediche 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: A3.9781786011084
ISBN 9781786011084. 9 x 12 inches.
Guitar Star offers beginner guitarists a refreshing and inspirational choice of pieces to help build confidence and musical skills. These original compositions and arrangements by Gary Ryan are imaginatively tailored to develop techniques progressively through an exciting and varied range of musical styles.
SKU: UT.CH-157
ISBN 9790215320369. 9 x 12 inches.
Vals d'la Masca; Il racconto della Montagna; Sequenze sotterraneeThe Alpinia Suite was commissioned and composed for the festival <> and is dedicated to my friend and colleague Elio Galvagno. It was performed for the first time on August 30, 2011, in the Church of San Giovanni in Saluzzo, by an ensemble of professional and student guitarists from all over Europe. This piece was written to commemorate the first ascent of mount Monviso, by William Mathews, Frederick Jacomb, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, exactly 150 years before, on August 30, 1861.The first movement is a small Waltz. I imagined a Masca (a sort of alpine pixie, a teasing sprite), dancing all around the house and playing tricks, mostly harmless and funny. The Masca is a legendary and very important character in the folklore of my valleys, and all rationally inexplicable events of everyday life are ascribed to her - such as objects that cannot be found anymore, holes in flour sacks, salt in sugar bowls...The next two movements are a homage to the Mountains. The Tale is a sort of journal, a bright and peaceful chronicle of a hike uphill, in which the beauty of the place is highlighted by an easy harmony and a sweet melody. After this, Underground sequences evokes that same world in a darker and nocturnal way; the faster pace and the choice of repeated and varying patterns are meant to show the transformation of the former environment into something more complex and tormented. Here mountains are a metaphor of human life, warts and all: their sundrenched slopes and their green pasture grasslands, but also their icy and dangerous northern sides, which demand calm, training and caution.(G. Signorile).
SKU: HL.14044742
French.
Les gammes pentatoniques sont a la guitare ce que l'alphabet est a notre langue : une base indispensable, un passage oblige ! Et c'est donc a ce titre que la presente methode constitue en quelque sorte votre passeport pour la six cordes ! Au programme de cet ouvrage : la gamme pentatonique mineure (indispensable), la gamme pentatonique majeure (essentielle), ainsi que d'autres gammes de 5 notes (plus anecdotiques) que nous qualifierons de pentatoniques hybrides. N'allez surtout pas vous imaginer que, sous pretexte que ce livre est dedie aux gammes, il pourrait etre ennuyeux... il y sera evidemment question d'un minimum de theorie et de technique, pour votre plus grand bien, mais aussi et avant tout de pratique, avec de tres nombreux exemples musicaux a la clef, repartis entre riffs et solos. Le CD MP3 joint a la methode vous permettra d'entendre tous les exemples techniques et musicaux (riffs et autres solos), afin de lever le voile sur d'eventuelles difficultes d'interpretation. Il vous donnera egalement la possibilite de jouer sur les tres nombreux playbacks proposes, dans differentes tonalites et a differentes vitesses, sur les grilles de quelques grands tubes de la guitare, librement ou selon les informations fournies. Soit 7 heures de musique en tout !
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