Guitar - Intermediate SKU: MB.31008M Perfect binding. Blues. Book and onl...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: MB.31008M
Perfect binding. Blues.
Book and online audio.
160 pages. Mel Bay
Publications, Inc
#31008M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.31008M).
ISBN
9781513467016. 8.75x11.75
inches.
Blind Lemon
Jefferson was a trail
blazer, both as a singer
and guitarist, but also
as a commercial
phenomenon, for he was
the first blues musician
to establish the
tremendous appeal that
blues, as played and sung
by rural African American
folk, had for the
record-buying public. It
is no exaggeration to say
that the sales of
Lemon’s records
paved the way for a host
of other solo rural blues
musicians to record in
his wake and made the
record companies more
willing to give other
musicians a chance, in
the hopes of achieving
similar
success.Â
Lemon
’s record sales
weren’t what made
him a great musician,
though - that could only
be attributed to his
startlingly virtuosic
guitar - playing and
soulful singing,
developed over years of
busking, building on his
natural gifts with a
great deal of practice
and work. In the Guitar
of Blind Lemon Jefferson
author John Miller
presents transcriptions,
in standard notation and
tablature, of 22 of
Lemon’s greatest
performances, with an
additional essay
examining Lemon’s
senses of time and
phrasing and his picking
techniques. Also included
is a download link to all
the original
recordings.Â
To
present a picture of
Lemon the man, noted
blues researchers Alan
Governar and Kip Lornell
have contributed an essay
focusing on
Lemon’s early
life, the origins of his
music, and his time spent
in a musical partnership
with Lead Belly. Links
are provided to
downloadable performances
of the songs in the book
from which the
transcriptions were made,
so that you can have
Lemon’s sound in
your head as you learn to
play his
songs.
Blind Lemon
Jefferson was remarkable,
even in a style that
abounded in great
musicians, and some
measure of his influence
can be seen in the fact
that musicians recorded
in the 1960s, more than
thirty years after his
death, were still
covering his songs and
stealing guitar licks
from him. The Guitar of
Blind Lemon Jefferson
gives you the resources
needed to learn what was
so special about
Lemon’s music, and
to experience his musical
excellence from inside
the music
itself.
Titles
include: One Dime Blues,
Got The Blues, Dry
Southern Blues, Big Night
Blues, Rabbit Foot Blues,
Shuckin' Sugar Blues,
Where Shall I Be, Wartime
Blues, Black Horse Blues,
Prison Cell Blues, Piney
Woods Money Mama, See
That My Grave Is Kept
Clean, He Arose From The
Dead, Beggin' Back, Broke
And Hungry, Bad Luck
Blues, Matchbox Blues,
Lemon's Worried Blues,
That Crawlin' Baby Blues,
Easy Rider Blues,
Stocking Feet Blues and
Right of Way
Blues
Level 2/3
• 160 pages •
Direct download link to
audio
files.Â
Guitar SKU: BT.ALB10651 Composed by Cees Hartog. Book with CD. 56 pages. ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.ALB10651
Composed
by Cees Hartog. Book with
CD. 56 pages. Alsbach
#ALB10651. Published by
Alsbach (BT.ALB10651).
ISBN 9789043145084.
Dutch.
G
uitaar Starter
is a 2-part guide to the
Classical Guitar in which
all basic techniques are
discussed from the very
beginning. These
techniques are gradually
incorporated into the
featured tunes to play
and arealways preceded by
preparatory exercises.
The 'DIY' style of this
book makes it easier for
beginning guitarists to
teach themselves in their
own time.
This
series aims to acquaint
the student with the
different styles ofGuitar
music that are out there,
including classical
pieces, folk, blues and
rock and more.
In
addition to acquiring
technical skills,
providing students with a
fun musical experience is
the series' primary
aim.Theprinciple is
simple - if the student
is enthusiastic about the
pieces that they are
playing, they will be
motivated to practice
diligently.
Guitar SKU: HL.14043780 By Tom Farncombe. By Iron Maiden. Arranged by Mar...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.14043780
By Tom
Farncombe. By Iron
Maiden. Arranged by
Martin Shellard. Guitar
Personality. Pop & Rock.
Softcover. Wise
Publications #AM995764.
Published by Wise
Publications
(HL.14043780).
ISBN
9781847727923.
English.
All the
songs from the album,
arranged for Guitar tab,
complete with full
lyrics.
This
book is specially bound
to help the pages lie
flat while you are
playing.
(An All-Purpose Book for Games, Pep Rallies, and other Stuff) Arranged by John W...(+)
(An All-Purpose Book for
Games, Pep Rallies, and
other Stuff) Arranged by
John Wasson, edited by
Bob Dingley. Performance
part for guitar. With
standard notation. 12
pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
Guitar - Intermediate SKU: DY.DO-1522 Composed by Francis Bebey. Arranged...(+)
Guitar - Intermediate
SKU: DY.DO-1522
Composed by Francis
Bebey. Arranged by Ingrid
Riollot. Score. Les
Editions Doberman-Yppan
#DO 1522. Published by
Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan
(DY.DO-1522).
Francis
Bebey was born in Douala
in July 1929, into a
large family where his
father, a pastor,
struggled to feed his
children. But Francis had
the opportunity to go to
school. Admiring his
elder brother, Marcel
Eyidi Bebey, he educated
himself, distinguished
himself, and eventually
received a scholarship to
go and take his
baccalaureate in
France. We approached
the end of the 1950s when
he arrived in La
Rochelle. More than ever,
in this France where
Africans were looked at
with curiosity,
condescension, or
disdain, Francis relied
on his intellectual
resources. A diligent
worker, he obtained his
Baccalaureate, then moved
to Paris where he started
English studies at the
Sorbonne. One day, he
knew what truly attracted
him: he wanted to do
radio. Francis learned
his craft in France and
in the USA. After
working for a few years
as a reporter, he was
hired in 1961 as an
international civil
servant in the UNESCO
Information
Department. In
parallel, Francis had
always been drawn to
musical creation. His
very serious daytime
activity didnâ??t
prevent him from
frequenting jazz clubs in
the evenings. In Paris,
the Jazz, the trendy
music of that time, but
also rumba and salsa
attracted him. He
collected records and
attended numerous
concerts. With his
accomplice Manu Dibango,
Francis took the stage
and played
music. Francis liked
classical music since his
childhood. He grew up
listening to the cantatas
and oratorios of Bach or
Handel that his father
had sung in the temple.
He became passionate
about the guitar,
impressed by the Spanish
and South American
masters, and decided to
learn to strum the
instrument himself. He
started composing guitar
pieces, blending the
various influences that
flow through him with the
traditional African music
he had carried within
since childhood. His
approach captivated the
director of the American
Cultural Center (then
located in the
Saint-Germain
neighborhood of Paris),
who offered him the
opportunity to perform in
front of an audience.
Francis gave his first
guitar recital there
(1963) in front of a
mesmerized audience. His
first solo album was
released shortly
thereafter. Gradually,
Francis became recognized
as a musician and
composer. Several albums
of the African guitar
ambassador, as described
by the press, were
released. He also wrote
books, to the point that
his artistic career
became challenging to
reconcile with his career
as a civil servant. In
1974, even though he had
become the General
Manager in charge of
music at UNESCO, he took
the bold leap and
resigned from this
prestigious institution
to dedicated himself to
the three activities that
interested him: music,
literature, and
journalism. He
explored the traditional
musical heritage of the
African continent,
notably through the thumb
piano sanza, and the
polyphonic music of the
Central African pygmies,
or singing in his native
language and composing
humoristic songs in
French! Success
followed. Francis Bebey
traveled the world: from
France to Brazil,
Cameroon to Sweden,
Germany to the Carribean,
or Morocco to Japan...
the list of countries
where he was invited to
perform, gives lectures,
or meets readers is very
long. In addition to
public recognition, he
enjoyed the recognition
of his fellow musicians,
such as guitarist John
Williams or Venezuelan
Antonio Lauro, who
invited him to be a part
of the jury for a
classical guitar
competition in
Caracas. His life was
the journey of an African
pioneer, a man rooted in
his cultural heritage and
carrying a message of
sharing and hope for the
world. His originality
continues to vibrate
around the world since
his passing at the end of
May 2001.
Sona
ta No. 6 Kharkiv for
guitar solo was composed
in 2021, in the end of
the COVID-19 lockdown. At
that time my family and I
were staying in our home
city of Kharkiv (also
known as Kharkov),
Ukraine for almost two
years. We considered that
pandemic period as a
disaster, but later have
realized that it actually
was a rather happy time,
because a war came to our
homeland just a few
months later. Since 2022
a considerable fraction
of the 1.5 millions of
Kharkiv citizens have
left their homes, those
who stayed have been
living under ceaseless
missile attacks, and many
have been killed. I would
like to dedicate this
Sonata to the frontier
city of Kharkiv and, most
of all, to its citizens
suffering from the
war. Yet, the music of
the Sonata does not have
any specific program.
Here I will give a brief
overview of its main
composition elements to
facilitate future
interpretations. The
first and fourth
movements of this Sonata
are based on the
interplay between the
twelve-tone principle and
the G-major tonal center,
natural for the guitar.
Namely, the first
movement is based on the
interaction of the
G-major triad Gâ??Bâ??D
of the open guitar
strings 2â??3â??4,
ascending motif 1
involving the notes
Eâ??F#â??Aâ??C#
(originally on the first
string), and descending
motif 2 using the notes
E-â??Câ??Bbâ??A-
(originally, on the bass
string 6). These elements
supplement each other to
almost make up twelve
tones (apart from the
missing F), and the
motifs alternate with
ostinato fragments where
each note in the G major
triad is step-by-step
moved by a semitone up or
down. The second
movement is a Scherzo
involving numerous
semitones in accented
chords and fast passages,
as well as chromatic
melodic motion in the
bass voice. It is almost
atonal in some fragments,
but has an overall tonal
center of A-minor. The
third movement is a
meditative Adagio based
on a theme composed
within hexatonic scale
Dâ??Eâ??Fâ??G#â??Aâ?
?B and ostinato chords
involving open bass
strings Eâ??Aâ??D and
semitone
Bâ??C. Finally, the
fourth movement is based
on the complete
twelve-tone theme
consisting of two phrases
including motifs 1 and 2
from the first movement:
Gâ??Fâ??Bbâ??Abâ??Câ
??Ebâ??D and
Eâ??Bâ??C#â??Aâ??F#.
This theme is presented
in its prime and
retrograde forms. There
are dialogues between the
first string, basses and
open middle strings,
similar to the first
movement. In the
culmination, the
twelve-tone theme is
performed using the
parallel motion of the
standard guitar G-major
chord with open middle
strings across twelve
positions. The Sonata
was premiered and
recorded (CD Naxos No.
8.574630) by the
prominent Ukrainian
guitarist Marko Topchii
who has also lived and
studied in Kharkiv. I am
extremely grateful to him
for the brilliant
performance of this
piece. I am greatly
indebted to Productions
dâ??Oz for keeping my
original notations in
places where these do not
conform to the
publisherâ??s style.
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).
Guitar SKU: GI.G-4107G Composed by Gary Daigle, Rory Cooney, and Theresa ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
GI.G-4107G
Composed
by Gary Daigle, Rory
Cooney, and Theresa
Donohoo. This edition:
Guitar edition. Sacred.
Guitar part. With guitar
chord names. 32 pages.
GIA Publications #4107G.
Published by GIA
Publications
(GI.G-4107G).
This collection
is characterized by a
variety of styles in the
Cooney tradition. Live
the Promise was chosen as
the theme song for the
1994 LA Religious
Education Congress for
its upbeat music and bold
lyrics. This collection
is characterized by a
variety of styles in the
Cooney tradition. Live
the Promise was chosen as
the theme song for the
1994 LA Religious
Education Congress for
its upbeat music and bold
lyrics. A great version
of Psalm 34 for weddings,
Every Morning in Your
Eyes, and a Winter
Magnificat with text by
Sr. Miriam Therese
Winter, MMS round out
this wonderful
collection. (Does not
include “Hard Time,
Come Again No
More,†which is
available separately,
G-4120) CONTENTS: PSALM
65: YOU (G-4111) •
LIVE THE PROMISE (G-4096)
• PSALM FOR
WEDDINGS: EVERY MORNING
IN YOUR EYES (G-4112)
• LIVELY LIGHT
(G-4113) • MY SOUL
GIVE GLORY/HE KING SHALL
COME (G-4115) •
BUILDING A CITY. (G-4116)
• CAROL OF THE
STRANGER (G-4118) •
LITANY OF DELIVERANCE
(G-4119) • HARD
TIMES, COME AGAIN NO MORE
(G-4120)Â .
Composed by Paolo Ugoletti Andrea Vezzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri and Raffae...(+)
Composed by Paolo
Ugoletti
Andrea Vezzoli. Edited by
Piero Bonaguri and
Raffaello
Ravasio. Saddle
stitching.
Piero Bonaguri
Collection.
Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH
254.
Published by Ut Orpheus
Chamber Music Guitar SKU: PR.114410840 A Sleepless Nocturne for Guitar...(+)
Chamber Music Guitar
SKU: PR.114410840
A Sleepless Nocturne
for Guitar. Composed
by Michael Karmon. Solo
part. With Standard
notation. Composed 1998.
Duration 15 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41084. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114410840).
UPC:
680160015689.
See
the biography of Michael
Karmon on the back
cover. WHEN THE SHEEP
WON'T COME:Â A
SLEEPLESS NOCTURNE FOR
GUITAR was composed for
Joseph Hagedorn, winner
of the 1990 GFA solo
competition, and
premiered by him in
November 1999. My
original idea was to
write a serene and moody
nocturne in several
movements. However,
as I began researching
and listening to new
guitar pieces, I came
across Toru Takemitsu's
All in Twilight, and it
immediately made a
profound impression.Â
At the time I found it
beautiful, moving, and
inspiring, but I also
felt I didn't have
anything to add to what
Takemitsu already did,
and that I needed to find
a new concept for my
piece. So, I decided
to view night as a
potentially restless
time, rather than a
serene time, and portray
states of mind one might
go through during a
sleepless night. The
names of the movements
evoke, at least in my
mind, the moods I am to
depict, and the piece
becomes progressively
more convoluted as it
goes on. By the end,
the music is a surreal
and weary shadow of the
opening.
Guitar SKU: FG.55011-324-4 Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #550...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
FG.55011-324-4
Composed by Kai Nieminen.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-324-4. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-324-4).
ISBN
9790550113244.
Quad
ri Morandi (2014) ties
together two essential
themes of Kai Niminen's
(b. 1953) compositional
style: guitar and a
subject inspired by
Italy. The strong
presence of the guitar in
his works is natural
since he is in an
actively performing
guitarist himself, and
guitar works indeed play
a significant role in his
oeuvre. Moreover, he has
written plenty of
orchestral music; for
instance two symphonies,
numerous concertos, and
chamber music. In the
field of Finnish music he
is a composer who can be
characterized as free
from any specific school
or style. In his musical
language, free tonal in
essence, one can detect
traces of Impressionism,
Neoromanticism and even
Expressionism at times,
but he is also willing to
employ more recent
20th-century stylistic
devices. Nieminen has
mentioned that he finds
himself very similar to
Japanese Toru Takemitsu
both musically and in
thought.
Mediterannean culture and
Italy especially have
been close to Nieminen's
heart ever since he first
visited the country and
appeared in the jury of
the international
Fernando Sor guitar
competition in 1981. He
has composed a great
number of works which
refer to Italian
landscapes or artists.
The work Quadri Morandi
(Morandi's pictures) is
written in four
movements. It has at its
centre the painter
Giorgio Morandi
(1890-1964), who is known
as a master of still
lifes and landscapes
painted in a plain manner
and is subdued colours.
Their atmosphere
typically reflects a calm
spirit. This is the third
guitar work that nieminen
has written for Kleemola.
It is easy to
find a counterpart for
the encaptivating realm
of Morandi's art in
Nieminen's clear and pure
expression. The titles
and expression markings
also include several
references to Morandi.
For example, in the
opening movement Prelude
the words la Natura morta
(still life) appear as an
additional note on the
chord sequence following
the freely flowing
opening section. At the
end of the movement one
can hear rhythmic motif
coloured with flageolets
that repeats the
syllables of the
painter's name: Gior-gio
Moran-di. A similar motif
can be heard at the end
of the second movement
Quasi cadenza. The
tranquilly breathing
third movement Paesaggio
(landscape) creates an
illusion of landscape by
imitating the echo of
monastery bells (come
campane del monastero)
and at the same time
refers to il monaco (the
monk), the name by which
Morandi was often called.
The final movement
Ritratto (Portrait) is
the most extensive of all
the movements and can be
seen, with its recurring
motifs, as a reflection
of the stable yet subtly
varying elements of
Morandi's art. The work
ends with the rhythmic
motif that once more
echoes Morandi's name,
like signature.
Guitar SKU: HL.14017586 For Guitar. Composed by Jouni Kaipainen. M...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.14017586
For
Guitar. Composed by
Jouni Kaipainen. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. 20
pages. Edition Wilhelm
Hansen #KP01518.
Published by Edition
Wilhelm Hansen
(HL.14017586).
ISBN
9788759879412.
English-Danish.
Pre
face I Programme Note
TENEBRAE was commissioned
by the Turku (Abo) Music
Festival and composed for
Finnish guitarist Timo
Korhonen, whom I had
known and admired for a
long time. Timo gave a
brillant premiere of
TENEBRAE in Turku on
August 13, 1991 and has
played it several times
since then. The title is
Latin, and means darkness
or gloom, but it also
refers to the Roman
Catholic matins and lauds
services in Holy Week.
These are held as dusk
falls, and the idea is
that the sixteen candles
that are burning at the
beginning of the service
are gradually
extinguished until, after
sixteenprayers, the
church is in darkness.
The same development is
carried through
inTENEBRAE by musical
means, so that we have
not yet had to resort to
acandlelit setting -
although it is by no
means out of the
question. The piece makes
extensive use of the
guitar's properties for
revealing quiet, intimate
feelings, although
naturally in a work of
this scope there is
contrasting material
included. Jouni
Kaipainen, 1993.
Suite No. 1 Guitare Guitare classique - Avancé Productions OZ
Guitar solo - Advanced SKU: DZ.DZ-4308 Composed by Giorgio Mirto. Score. ...(+)
Guitar solo - Advanced
SKU: DZ.DZ-4308
Composed by Giorgio
Mirto. Score. Les
Productions d'OZ #DZ
4308. Published by Les
Productions d'OZ
(DZ.DZ-4308).
ISBN
9782898522253.
Foll
owing a recent experience
on the jury of a guitar
competition, I noted with
great pleasure that
Giorgio Mirto, with whom
I had shared the role of
juror, wanted to
celebrate the experience
of the competition -
during from which we
discovered that we had
had a great affinity of
thought - with something
which could endure over
time and not evaporate as
often happens in short
and occasional meetings
between musicians. He did
it as a true composer,
which he is, and
dedicated to me a very
beautifully crafted Suite
to which I allowed myself
to collaborate at least
formally, by suggesting
titles for the four
movements. This is how
Suite n.1 was born, a
piece that does not
strictly respect the
formal rules of the
Baroque era, but
reinterprets and reuses
them in a new key. The
work's obvious late
Baroque inspiration led
me to find titles that
invited the performer to
delve deeper into the
work's aesthetic
inspiration. So I
suggested to Giorgio that
he title the four
movements with something
that linked their content
to four greats of the
18th century. German
masters. The prelude has
thus become from Eisenach
because of its sometimes
improvised Bach-like
atmosphere, the second
movement, vaguely
toccata, speaks an organ
language in the manner of
Buxtehude (who lived in
Lübeck), the slow
movement has a Handelian
quality - and Handel was
born in Halle - and the
last movement, far from
being a true Chaconne,
undoubtedly has the
latter's taste for
variation and ostinato,
typical traits of
Telemann who lived in
Magdeburg. The cities
that appear in the titles
are therefore indelible
to the authors cited.
Furthermore, one should
not think that the style
of the work is in any way
German, given that
Giorgio Mirto expresses
himself in a very joyful
language that synthesizes
modality with minimalism,
all seasoned with a a nod
to Pink's progressive
rock Floyd. or a Mike
Oldfield... The result of
this mixture of ideas,
inspirations and styles
is a work that personally
I never tire of reading
and rereading, for the
freshness that emanates
from it and for the
climate expressive which
rises, nourishing itself
with full efficiency. We
ultimately cannot ignore
that the note B, the one
which marks in a minor
way some of the most
expressive works of the
guitar repertoire, from
the study of Sor which
made generations of
students fall in love
with the guitar, until to
that of Frank Martin's
Four Pieces via La
Catedral di Barrios, is
the modal fulcrum of the
entire Suite: it is true
that the Prelude begins
with a clear chord in E
minor and lingers on an
open ending in A minor ,
but it almost seems that
the initial E serves as a
launching pad for a
continuation of the work
in which the dominant,
that is to say the B, is
the true musical North,
the pole star which
guides us in the other
three movements until the
end of the Chaconne de
Magdebourg. I wish
Giorgio and our Suite
great longevity and a
favorable destiny in the
complex and complex world
of contemporary guitar
composition. And I thank
him again, flattered by
his very kind
dedication.
Composed by William Bay. Flatpicking, Lute, Baroque, Contemporary, Technique...(+)
Composed by William Bay.
Flatpicking, Lute,
Baroque,
Contemporary, Technique,
Theory and Reference,
Solos.
Achieving Guitar
Artistry.
Book. 76 pages. Published
by
Mel Bay Publications, Inc
Performed by Pat Metheny. For guitar (no tablature). Format: fake book. With lea...(+)
Performed by Pat Metheny.
For guitar (no
tablature). Format: fake
book. With leadsheet
notation and chord names.
Jazz and jazz fusion. 448
pages. 9x12 inches.
Published by Hal Leonard.