Guitar

SKU: FG.55011-071-7

Hommage to Paul Klee. Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #55011-071-7. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-071-7).

ISBN 9790550110717.

Completed in Karstula, Finland during late July 2010, this carefully structured, but also free-ranging work is drawn from ideas for a much earlier work in four movements, Fantasy dating from the 1980s.
Kai Nieminen has been for a long time an admirer of the work of artist Paul Klee (1879-1940), and the solo presented in its final form here is influenced by the painting Dances caused by Fear or as it is often refered to Dancing from Fear painted towards the end of Klee's life in Bern, 1938.
Having left Germany for Switzerland in December 1933, Klee's later works were often full of signs and lines, very often represented in black, depicting human figures or various objects against a variety of coloured backgrounds, in the case of this painting of a brownish hue. This development in his painting style and technique is felt by some to be an effect perhaps of his long-term illness, systemic sclerosis, but in the case of Dances caused by Fear there is suggested an atmosphere of panic and terror, an attempt to escape from horrors to come (World War II), represented in the violent movement of the arms and legs of the figures, and the dark, indeed brooding nature of the colours.
In Kai Nieminen's guitar work Images of Fear, there is only a very brief passage of calm at the very beginning, after which come three main connected sections in which a wide range of musically unsettling ideas emerge one by one, making use of the tritone, minor seconds, glissandos, tamboura, campanella, etc. The third and final section incorporates the grouping of 5 sixteenth-notes, to give an uneasy feeling to the music, with a short haunting and pleading five-note phrase (Cantando) heard immediately following this passage, before the work ends with further glissandos, and distant and diminishing harmonics.
As with Kai Nieminen's other guitar works, the use of 'orchestral colour' is vital to the performance, and passages suggestive of for example brass, strings, woodwind, etc., should be taken into account and played with suitably considered contrast of tone.

John Mills.

Spanish Edition Guitar

SKU: HL.114930

Metodo De Tab Para Guitarra. Guitar Tab Method. Instruction, Method, Spanish Edition. Softcover with CD. With guitar tablature. 32 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.114930).

ISBN 9781480312579. UPC: 884088876326. 9.0x12.0x0.17 inches.

The revolutionary Hal Leonard Guitar Tab Method (HL00697411) is now available in a Spanish edition.

Guitar - Intermediate

SKU: MB.WBM75M

Saddle-stitched. Folk. Book and online audio. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #WBM75M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.WBM75M).

ISBN 9781737795353. 8.75X11.75 inches.

This is a collection of 86 guitar solos in notation only from William Bayâ??s books, Solo Guitar in Worship, Communion, Psalms, Timeless Gospel Melodies and Spirituals. The solos work well as preludes, offertories, communion hymns, recessionals or they can be played for enjoyment.  All 86 solos have been recorded and are available as online downloads with this book.

Guitar

SKU: FV.FUE-10417

By Stefan Barcsay. By Various. Edited by Stefan Barcsay. Contemporary. Score. Furore Verlag #FUE 10417. Published by Furore Verlag (FV.FUE-10417).

ISBN 9790501827176.

With the kind support of Furore Verlag, I am pleased to be able to present six compositions for my concert project.

Guitar solo - Advanced

SKU: DZ.DZ-4123

Composed by Hermelindo Ruis Mestre. Score. Les Productions d'OZ #DZ 4123. Published by Les Productions d'OZ (DZ.DZ-4123).

ISBN 9782898520402.

Guitar

SKU: GI.G-8833G

Song of Farewell. Composed by Fergal King. This edition: Guitar edition. Sacred. Guitar part. With guitar chord names. 4 pages. GIA Publications #8833G. Published by GIA Publications (GI.G-8833G).

English. Text Source: Words adapt. from Scripture. Text by Feargal G. King.