SKU: AP.12-0571541003

ISBN 9780571541003. English.

Iron & Wine: The Songbook contains songs from albums and EPs by American singer-songwriter Iron & Wine. The artist-approved chord songbook includes lyrics and chords with short picking patterns in tab and notation, and is full color throughout with artwork, photographs, tour posters, a song index, and an index of first lines.

SKU: BT.RSK200072

ISBN 9781789360080. English.

Learn to play rock and pop with Rockschool. These specially written arrangements develop the skills and techniques you need to help you achieve your musical goals. Rockschool Classics Guitar Grade 4 contains eight of thebiggest rock tracks from the past five decades arranged for you to play in your Grade 4 Exam. You can choose two pieces from Rockschool Classics to play in your Grade Exam or three to play in your Peformance Certificate.

Featuring:

• Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
• Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
• Joe Satriani - Ice 9
• Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
• AC/DC - Whole LottaRosie
• Black Sabbath - Iron Man
• Eric Clapton - Edge Of Darkness
• Razorlight - Before I Fall To Pieces

Plus:

• Band and artist fact files with recommended listening
• In-depthwalkthroughs of every track
• Easy-access downloadable audio
• Example tests and exercises
• Amp settings and tone advice for each track

SKU: FG.55011-465-4

ISBN 9790550114654.

Through Green Glass is made up of four contrasting movements osasta (Allegro intenso-Pesante-Sostenuto-Energico), which are played attacca. The sharp cuts at the movement divider transfer the listener suddenly to a new atmosphere and sound texture. Only the final movement, Energico, grows organically into its own being, directly from the tranquil Sostenuto movement. Reoccuring rhythm ostinato 13/8 (8/8 + 5/8) is embedded in the genes of all movements. After the climax of the finale, a kind of synthesis is apparent: the heavy chords of Pesante movement make a reappearance; the final bars of the work are indeed a citation from the beginning of the work.
Though the guitar is not Mikko Heinio's own instrument, this work was born with a guitar on the composer's lap. This lends to the texture being idiomatic, very natural to the guitar, not letting the performer get off easy, though. The fast changes in texture, multiple playing techniques and snappy rhythmic drive with fast arpeggios call for iron-handed guitarist. The title of the work was given after the work was finished. In retrospect the composer says of the title: [the mental image is] green like the nature, fragile and clear as glass, as light filtered by certain frequences of chromium oxide.

SKU: HL.14061167

UPC: 007399994945.

SKU: YM.GTL01097478

ISBN 9784636974782.

Calimba, born in Africa, is made of bord and iron/bamboo pins. This book has 30 songs arranged this new and small instruments, especially with 17 pins.

SKU: UT.CH-227

ISBN 9790215324145. 9 x 12 inches.

Emilio Calandin: Piccola sfumatura
Claudia Montero: Lagrimas de Buenos Aires
Marco Reghezza: Como Preludio
Marco Smaili: Preludio
Alessandro Spazzoli: Preludio in Do maggiore
Roberto Tagliamacco: Prelude sur le nom de Tarrega
Paolo Ugoletti: Prelude sur le nom de Tarrega

Having been invited several times onto the jury of the prestigious Certamen Tarrega in Benicasim, I thought I would involve a few composers in a gift to the father of the modern guitar. So I asked the composers to write a Prelude of the kind that Tarrega wrote and which count among his most significant compositions.
These Preludes for Tarrega, all written between August and November 2015, are very different from each other. The common feature, however, between these and the Preludes by Tarrega is their brevity, an average level of performance difficulty and guaranteed easy listening, even when written in a non-tonal language (like the meditative and melancholy piece by Emilio Calandin and the one by Marco Smaili, with its Impressionistic feel reminding one of Tarrega's most famous pupil, Miguel Llobet).
In some Preludes (the ones by Paolo Ugoletti, Roberto Tagliamacco, Claudia Montero) the reference to Lagrima, one of Tarrega's most famous Preludes, is evident in form, title and some citations. Ugoletti and Tagliamacco work well and expressively on harmony and counterpoint, while the Argentinian Claudia Montero links Tarrega to a heartbreaking Buenos Aires...
In Alessandro Spazzoli there is rather more a connection with Tarrega's sense of melody and deep simplicity, while Marco Reghezza remembers ironically what was brewing in European music when Tarrega was alive: in fact, his Como Preludio goes across the 24 keys - and even a reference to Wagner's Tristan raises its head...
I am delighted for this volume to come out at the time of the fiftieth edition of the Certamen Tarrega.
(Piero Bonaguri).

SKU: DZ.DZ-4292

ISBN 9782898522093.

« Boulevard Pey Arnaud » est une composition soliste pour guitare inspirée par le lieu où se trouve ma maison, dans un environnement protégé, entourée de forêts de pins et traversée par un petit ruisseau nommé « l’eau bourde ». Depuis quatre décennies, ce cadre enchanteur a nourri mon inspiration, m’offrant un refuge de sérénité. Chaque note de cette courte balade est imprégnée des souvenirs heureux de mes enfants grandissant sur ce boulevard, leurs rires et jeux résonnant parmi les arbres. « Boulevard Pey Arnaud » est une ode à la nature, à la famille et aux moments de paix trouvés dans ce quartier.

Boulevard Pey Arnaud is a solo composition for guitar inspired by the place where my house is located, in a protected environment, surrounded by pine forests and crossed by a small stream called l’eau bourde. For four decades, this enchanting setting has nourished my inspiration, offering me a refuge of serenity. Every note of this short stroll is imbued with the happy memories of my children growing up on this boulevard, their laughter and games echoing among the trees. Boulevard Pey Arnaud is an ode to nature, family and the moments of peace found in this neighborhood.

SKU: UT.CH-395

ISBN 9790215328587. 9 x 12 inches.

Il grande larice rosso; Piccole vite; Requiem per un bosco

Never before have I felt the urgency within myself to communicate with my instrument something which goes beyond just the notes, a desire to embrace with music parts of the world which I see as being so neglected and abandoned, as if man were no longer able to see beyond the narrow confines of his home and work spaces. The environment which surrounds us, free and pure, seems to bow more and more to the base instincts of abuse which man brings into play... the destruction of centuries-old forests and glaciers, the construction of harmful and disturbing, useless and polluting elements... and I wonder what we can do, what I, as a musician, can do, at least to show my disapproval of these situations. I have no straight answer but I know that writing the music I love to play, often born in natural and wild environments can help to dream of, or imagine a present time which is more on a human scale, thanks to the strong evocative power which music possesses and emanates.
This is the meaning of these compositions, dedicated to a tree, a 700-year-old specimen of the Stura Valley, Lu Merze Gros (The Big Larch), to the small beings which inhabit it, in the bark, among its foliage, in the surrounding soil and to my sense of frustration at seeing a forest of fir trees razed to the ground to allow the construction of a bobsleigh run.
This action of mine has been useless and nostalgic perhaps, but it has given me intense moments of emotion in the writing and moves me enormously during its performance.

Giorgio Signorile.