Creative Transcriptions for Today's Guitarist. Par . This second volume of The Classical Guitarist?s Gig Book contains 63 intermediate to advanced solo arrangements of pieces in various styles. From ?The Water Is Wide? and Christmas and patriotic favorites to opera arias ?Julia Florida? by Agustín Barrios and Cello Suite No. 1 by J. S. Bach all of the music in this book is written in standard notation only. Award-winning composer university professor 2013 Winfield Fingerstyle Champion and 2022 Indiana State Fingerstyle Guitar Competition winner Mark Cruz has added a few of his own engaging compositions to this exceptional collection?ideal for the performing classic guitarist. / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Recueil / Guitare

Guitar Styles of Merle Watson-During the fifteen years that Merle Watson toured and recorded with his father Doc Watson the duo was one of the most popular and beloved musical teams in folk music history. On these two CDs Merle teaches the traditional fingerpicking flatpicking and slide guitar styles for which he was famous. Doc joins Merle in a dynamic demonstration of twin guitars as they take apart some of their most requested duets and explain in detail how each part is played. CD One - Country Guitar Fingerpicking Solos & Duets: Southbound - Candyman - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Goin' Down the Road - Make Me a Pallet on the Floor - Nine-Pound Hammer - The Last Thing on My Mind - Worried Blues- Bonaparte's Retreat - Windy and Warm - Blue Railroad Train - Solid Gone - Deep River Blues. CD Two - Slide Guitar and Flatpicking Solos & Duets: Poor Boy Blues - Day Break Blues - Curly Headed Baby - Can't Be Satisfied - Wabash Cannonball - Minglewood Blues - Miss the Mississippi and You - Columbus Stockade - Honky Tonkin' - Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Old Joe Clark - Salt Creek - Florida Blues - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Red-Haired Boy. TWO CDs - INCLUDES TAB - LEVEL 3

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bess.

Morel Jorge (Performed). Par MOREL JORGE. Argentine guitar virtuoso Jorge Morel discusses and performs nine brilliant Latin American solo guitar compositions. Included are: Choro by Jorge Morel, Pampero by Jorge Morel, Chopi by Pablo Escovar, Misionera arranged by Jorge Morel, Danza Brasilera by Jorge Morel, Bossa en Re by Jorge Morel, and Otro Tango Buenos Aires from Rhapsodia del Sur by Jorge Morel, Julie Florida by Agustin Barrio and Danza Paraguaya by Agustin Barrios. / Latin American - Concert/Documentary / Accessoire / Guitare Classique

At The National Storytelling Festival-On October 5 2001 (his birthday) international rambler racconteur and Florida/Piedmont blues aficionado Roy Book Binder played a sold-out concert at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough Tennesse the oldest and most prestigious festival of its kind in the world. Roy peppered his finger-picking blues and ragtime songs with outrageously funny stories about his life and times and the people he met along the way. Homespun's cameras were there and the result is a thoroughly engaging and entertaining performance video by one of America's most popular folk and blues artists. This is one you shouldn't miss!

The Classical Guitarist's Gig Book is an essential collection of classic works either written or transcribed for solo guitar. Many of the pieces are frequently requested for ceremonial or formal events. In addition to containing functional music, concert literature is also included which may be used for a wide spectrum of musical situations. Some of the works are presented as faithful transcriptions while others are treated with mild to generous artistic liberties./ Recueil / Guitare Classique

Par DYENS ROLAND. / Niveau : Assez Facile / classique / Répertoire / Guitare