By Various. Piano/Vocal/Chords Songbook (Arrangements for piano and voice with guitar chords). Softcover. 144 pages. Published by Word Music.

By Woody Mann. For Guitar. Blues. Sheet Music. 124 pages. Published by Oak Publications.

Guitar solo

SKU: GH.GE-11464

Composed by Benjamin Staern. Duration 15 minutes. Gehrmans Musikforlag #GE 11464. Published by Gehrmans Musikforlag (GH.GE-11464).

ISBN 979-0-070-11464-6. A4 inches.

Work note by the composer:

When I received the news of this commission, I had no idea what it would lead to. Writing for guitar solo is not the same as composing for orchestra where you have forty voices where you can easily mask an entire section. Here you are very naked to the bone.
The starting point for this work was from J.S. Bach's Chaconne in D-minor that Johannes had performed in concert, originally written for violin but there is a version transcribed for guitar and piano made by Ferruccio Busoni. When I went to Cortona (in Tuscany, Italy) completed the southern mentality of this work.
Arpalineais actually a merged word in Italian language. Arpa means harp, however in a musical context it's more or less resembled with the word arpeggio, which means broken chords. Lineameans line.

The work is divided in three parts.
I. Arpeggio: It starts with an opening chaconne-like sequence and is marked with a certain depth in which the chords starts to separate from the organum note in the bass and it culminates into a section called with rhythmical focus. These sections alternates, variates which each other.
The middle section has a playful and childish atmosphere where the guitarist knocks on the body of the guitar resembling a Spanish folk instrument cajon. This is leading to a section which tends more to a very aggressive fusion-like riff that loses control and reaches its climax at the end.

II. Linea: The static rhytmical pulse is now disintegrated and it forms more or less sort of a free, improvisational state in a rubatolike tempo. The character is described as a very hot day with temperatures rising above 37! C (or 100! F) where you can hardly do anything just sitting dozed off and pespiring because of the extreme heat watching a huge fog coming up in the evening that spreads around the Tuscan atmosphere.

III. Finale: It starts off with fast one-note ostinati then more and more notes pop up like a gradual rain storm with thunder strikes! And eventually it leads to that is a large flood through the streets of an medieval Southern town. The work ends with a short circuit slapped strings along with extremely fast tremolos that reaches higher and louder as possible!

Benjamin Staern

Holly Jolly Christmas and Silver and Gold arranged by Jonathon Robbins. For piano, voice, guitar solo. Solo. Best of Christmas series. Christmas. Sheet Music. Text Language: English. 8 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

Angels We Have Heard On High and Away In A Manger arranged by Jonathon Robbins. For piano, voice, guitar solo. Solo. Best of Christmas series. Christmas. Sheet Music. Text Language: English. 8 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree and Up On The Housetop arranged by Jonathon Robbins. For piano, voice, guitar solo. Solo. Best of Christmas series. Christmas. Sheet Music. Text Language: English. 8 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

Carol Of The Bells and O Little Town Of Bethlehem arranged by Jonathon Robbins. For piano, voice, guitar solo. Solo. Best of Christmas series. Christmas. Sheet Music. Text Language: English. 8 pages. Published by Santorella Publications

Violin

SKU: HL.49047398

Solo Violin. Composed by Dominique Le Gendre. String Solo. Classical. Softcover. 8 pages. Duration 300 seconds. Schott Music #ED14165. Published by Schott Music (HL.49047398).

ISBN 9798350127898. UPC: 842819121244. 9.0x12.0x0.061 inches.

This work for solo violin was commissioned by American Violinist Wendy Case for her CD of works for solo violin by living composers titled The Tiger and The Clover released in February 2022 by the label Blue Griffin. Just as Wendy proposed this new work, I heard the news that the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski who I had met through mutual friends, had died. I had long admired his essays that thoughtfully and with grace and ease, merged the past with the present in the way that only a poet can, lifting the reader onto a plain of images, thoughts and words that conjure seamless journeys through time, space and the imagination. His essays often refer to the music of Bach and I found myself writing this piece inhabited by the physical pleasure of playing Bach's suites for Lute transposed for the guitar. The piece revolves around a simple repetitive semiquaver motif playing with the Aeolian mode starting on G. The motif ascends and descends playing with and against the low G string to extend itself away from the home mode, then returning and gradually extending into quavers to reach the key of E major while hinting at A minor. The repetitive nature of the piece invites the player to explore variations in sound quality and dynamics and to enjoy the effect of the notes playing against each other as they rise and fall away but always maintain a constant tempo and rhythm.

The books in 'Jazzin'' contain 12 songs for jazz ensemble. The books come with a CD. The songs are recorded in short versions, where the melody (plus harmony part and/or fill-ins) are presented by song and/or an instrument, this is followed by a solo, and at last, the melody is presented in a new combination by instruments and/or vocals. All songs come in a stereo mix with melodies and solos, and also in a 'minus one' version with just rhythm, that can be used for practising. In the minus one version, the drums are in stereo, the bass is in the left channel, and the chord instruments (piano and/or guitar) in the right channel. This makes it possible to practice melodies and solos with a complete backing, chord instruments with just bass and drums, and bass with just chord instruments and drums

(Bass Recorded Versions) Performed by Stanley Clarke. For bass. Format: bass solo songbook (with tablature). With standard bass notation, bass tablature and introductory text. Jazz fusion and jazz. Series: Hal Leonard Bass Recorded Versions. 96 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.