Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM996996 Arranged by Russ Shipton. The Complete Guitar ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM996996
Arranged by Russ Shipton.
The Complete Guitar
Player. Pop & Rock. Book
with CD. Wise
Publications
#MUSAM996996. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM996996).
ISBN
9781849380140.
English.
Th
e Complete Guitar
Player series
has taught hundreds of
thousands how to play and
the accompanying
songbooks have featured
hits by Paul Simon, Elvis
Presley, The Beatles,
John Denver and many
othertopartists.
N
ow these songbooks are
available in super value
omnibus editions like
this one. The songs are
still graded by ease of
playing and everything is
there... standard
notation, Guitar chord
boxes, full lyrics
andevenstrumming
patterns!
Over 180
great songs! Perfect for
all players and
singers!
The bonus
CD contains backing
tracks to 16 of the songs
in the book.
by William Bay. For all guitars. Gospel-old time, strum/sing. Level: Beginning-I...(+)
by William Bay. For all
guitars. Gospel-old time,
strum/sing. Level:
Beginning-Intermediate.
Book. Solos. Size
8.75x11.75. 112 pages.
Published by Mel Bay
Pub., Inc.
Guitar SKU: HL.381135 A Step-by-Step and Song-by-Song Guide for Absolu...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.381135
A
Step-by-Step and
Song-by-Song Guide for
Absolute Beginners.
Guitar Educational.
Instruction, Method.
Softcover. 112 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.381135).
ISBN
9781705152447. UPC:
196288019466.
9.0x12.0x0.277
inches.
Learn how
to play guitar with this
effective guitar method
successfully used by
thousands of busy New
Yorkers in their classes
at New York City Guitar
School. You'll learn the
fundamentals of guitar
with this motivating
step-by-step
comprehensive course for
beginners which covers
all the basics of guitar
playing, and includes
detailed practice session
plans, motivating stories
and great song examples.
Topics covered include:
The fundamental habits of
great guitar players; The
rest stroke; How to read
chord diagrams; The D and
G chords; How to tune
your guitar; How to
practice; The A7 Chord;
How to play with a pick;
The secret to memorizing
songs; How to read tab
and play cool licks;
Pivot changes; G Major; E
Minor; D 7th; The concept
of chord progressions;
The small barre--gateway
to future guitar
greatness; and much more.
You'll get to play great
songs while learning,
too! Songs include: Chain
of Fools • DJ Got
Us Fallin' in Love
• The First Cut Is
the Deepest • I
Fought the Law •
Mirrorball •
Mustang Sally • Old
Town Road (I Got the
Horses in the Back)
• Pumped up Kicks
• Rebel, Rebel
• Sons &
Daughters • Truth
Hurts • Up on the
Roof • and more.
This book is ideal for
use with a teacher or in
a class, and has also
been used successfully
around the world as a
self-study course.
Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM1008029 By Toby Knowles. The Complete Guitar Player. ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM1008029
By
Toby Knowles. The
Complete Guitar Player.
Pop & Rock. Book Only.
Composed 2015. 146 pages.
Wise Publications
#MUSAM1008029. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM1008029).
ISBN 9781783055364.
English.
The
Complete Guitar Player
Acoustic Songbook
features a huge
collection of 50 acoustic
hits from all genres for
Guitar. Each song
includes full lyrics and
Guitar chords as well as
strumming and picking
patterns, making this
perfect for the aspiring
acoustic Guitarist. Every
song included in this
Guitar songbook is a bona
fide acoustic classic,
perfect for singalongs at
parties or just a strum
on a summer's day in the
park. Songs like Hey,
Soul Sister by
Train, Wonderwall
by Oasis and Ho Hey
by The Lumineers
represent the best in
unplugged and fun
chill-out music. 'The
book is designed to be
accessible and enjoyable,
showcasing the best songs
by the best songwriters
like Bob Dylan, Mumford
& Sons, The Beatles
and Adele. Songs from the
past and the present are
included, so there will
be something for everyone
in this acoustic
songbook. Each song has
been carefully arranged
for Guitar and Voice,
including the melody,
lyrics and Guitar chord
shapes. Not only this,
but there are also
suggested strumming or
picking patterns to help
you nail the exact sound
of the song straight
away. This acoustic
Guitar songbook is ideal
for beginners and
intermediate Guitarists
looking to expand their
repertoire with acoustic
songs new and old,
whereas absolute
beginnersnew to the
Guitar might find that
the four books of the
famous Complete Guitar
Player series by Russ
Shipton will help them
out with the
basics. With these
50 acoustic Guitar songs,
you'll be singing,
strumming
andfingerpicking your way
through the folk, pop and
rock canon in no time at
all. The Complete Guitar
Player Acoustic Songbook
would make a stellar
addition to any
guitarist's bookshelf,
and every one of these
great songs will make
sure that everyone is
singing along.
Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM1008040 By Toby Knowles. The Complete Guitar Player. ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM1008040
By
Toby Knowles. The
Complete Guitar Player.
Pop & Rock. Book Only.
Composed 2015. 160 pages.
Wise Publications
#MUSAM1008040. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM1008040).
ISBN 9781783058228.
English.
The
Complete Guitar Player
Rock Songbook features a
massive collection of 50
hard-rocking hits from
the best of classic and
contemporary rock music
for Guitar. Each song
includes full lyrics and
Guitar chords as well as
strumming and picking
patterns, making this
songbook great for the
aspiring rock rhythm or
lead Guitarist. Each and
every tune included in
this Guitar songbook is a
true rock classic,
perfect for cranking the
amp up to 10, or should
that be 11?. Old
favourites like All Day
And All Of The Night by
The Kinks and Hey Joe by
Jimi Hendrix are matched
by modern classics such
as Radiohead's Creep
and Use Somebody
by Kings Of Leon.
The rock songbook
presents the best in
music to plug in and rock
out to. It's designed to
be accessible and
enjoyable, showcasing the
best songs by the best
rock bands and
songwriters like The
Clash, AC/DC, Eric
Clapton and David Bowie.
Past and present tunes
are included, ensuring
there's something for
everyone in this complete
rock songbook. Each song
has been carefully
arranged for Guitar and
Voice, including the
melody in standard
notation,lyrics and
Guitar chord shapes. Not
only this, but there are
also suggested strumming
and picking patterns to
help you dial up the
volume and nail the exact
sound of the song
straight away. This rock
Guitar songbook is ideal
for beginners and
intermediate Guitarists
looking to expand their
repertoire with powerful
songs new and old,
whereas absolute
beginners new to the
Guitar will find that the
four books of the famous
Complete Guitar Player
series by Russ Shipton
will help them out with
the basics. With
these 50 rock Guitar
songs, you'll be singing,
strumming your power
chords, and soloing your
way through the best rock
songs of the past
half-century in no time
at all. The Complete
Guitar Player Rock
Songbook would make a
sterling addition to any
guitarist's bookshelf,
and each of these superb
songs is guaranteed to
make everyone stop and
listen.
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.
Guitar SKU: HL.278175 Supplement to Any Guitar Method. By Various....(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.278175
Supplement to Any
Guitar Method. By
Various. Guitar Method.
Christmas, Pop. Softcover
Audio Online. 32 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.278175).
ISBN
9781540029522. UPC:
888680752569. 9x12
inches. Hal Leonard
Guitar
Method.
Strum along
with your favorite
holiday hits, correlated
to work with any guitar
method book 1. The songs
are presented in order of
difficulty –
featuring 15 songs in
all. Includes: Away in a
Manger •
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S •
Deck the Hall •
Feliz Navidad • I
Saw Three Ships •
Jingle Bells • Jolly
Old St. Nicholas •
Joy to the World •
The Little Drummer Boy
• Nuttin' for
Christmas • O Come,
All Ye Faithful •
Silent Night •
Silver Bells • The
Star Carol (Canzone D'i
Zampognari) • Up on
the Housetop. The
accompanying audio
features every song
recorded by a full band,
so you can hear how each
song sounds and then play
along when you're ready.
The audio is accessed
online using the unique
code inside each book and
can be streamed or
downloaded. The audio
files include PLAYBACK+,
a multi-functional audio
player that allows you to
slow down audio without
changing pitch, set loop
points, change keys, and
pan left or right.
About Hal
Leonard Guitar
Method
The
world-famous Hal Leonard
Guitar Method is
preferred by teachers
because it makes them
more effective while
making their job easier.
Students enjoy its
easy-to-follow format
that gives them a solid
music education while
letting them play songs
right away. The Hal
Leonard Guitar Method
provides a complete
system to playing success
which includes three
levels of instruction and
a myriad of play-along
supplemental songbooks
that let students play
great songs while they're
still learning to
play.
Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM975359 Tuition. Book with CD. Wise Publications #MUSA...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM975359
Tuition. Book with CD.
Wise Publications
#MUSAM975359. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM975359).
ISBN
9780711996618.
English.
This is
the book for you if you
always wanted to learn
but somehow kept putting
it off, if you’ve
played guitar before and
given up or if
you’re determined
to crack it this
time.
The no-nonsense
guide that will soon
haveyouplaying great
chords, riffs and even
solos with as little pain
as possible!
Some basic
musical knowledge is
handy, but the 2 CDs
included feature a
demonstration and backing
tracks for each exercise.
Chord boxes
andhow-to-playphotos make
the tricky stuff
easy.
Arranged by Matt
Scharfglass who is a New
York-based songwriter,
bassist and
multi-instrumentalist. He
does session work, leads
his own band and performs
extensively in the New
YorkCity area.
12-String Guitar SKU: HL.287559 By Various. Guitar Collection. Pop, Stand...(+)
12-String Guitar
SKU:
HL.287559
By Various.
Guitar Collection. Pop,
Standards. Softcover.
With guitar tablature.
120 pages. Published by
Hal Leonard (HL.287559).
ISBN 9781540043313.
UPC: 888680904715.
9.0x12.0x0.299
inches.
This
one-of-a-kind collection
presents accessible,
must-know songs from the
Beatles and Bob Dylan to
Dave Matthews Band and
Tom Petty for those who
have been learning
12-string guitar and are
eager to put their new
skills to work. You'll
find a combination of
tab, chords and lyrics
for 50 great songs,
including: California
Dreamin' • Carry On
• Closer to the
Heart • Do You
Believe in Magic •
Free Fallin' • Give
a Little Bit • A
Hard Day's Night •
Hotel California •
Leaving on a Jet Plane
• Life by the Drop
• Like the Way I Do
• Melissa •
Mr. Tambourine Man
• More Than a
Feeling • The One I
Love • Over the
Hills and Far Away
• Solsbury Hill
• Space Oddity
• Still the Same
• Turn! Turn! Turn!
(To Everything There Is a
Season) • The
Waiting • Wish You
Were Here • You
Wear It Well • and
more!
About First
50
You've
been taking lessons,
you've got a few chords
under your belt, and
you're ready to buy a
songbook. Now what? Hal
Leonard has the answers
in its First 50 series.
The First 50 series
steers new players in the
right direction. These
books contain easy to
intermediate arrangements
for must-know songs. Each
arrangement is simple and
streamlined, yet still
captures the essence of
the tune.
Guitar SKU: HL.278177 Supplement to Any Guitar Method. By Various....(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.278177
Supplement to Any
Guitar Method. By
Various. Guitar Method.
Christmas, Pop.
Softcover. 32 pages.
Published by Hal Leonard
(HL.278177).
ISBN
9781540029546. UPC:
888680752583. 9x12
inches. Hal Leonard
Guitar
Method.
Strum along
with your favorite
holiday hits, correlated
to work with any guitar
method book 1. The songs
are presented in order of
difficulty –
featuring 15 songs in
all. Includes: Away in a
Manger •
C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S •
Deck the Hall •
Feliz Navidad • I
Saw Three Ships •
Jingle Bells • Jolly
Old St. Nicholas •
Joy to the World •
The Little Drummer Boy
• Nuttin' for
Christmas • O Come,
All Ye Faithful •
Silent Night •
Silver Bells • The
Star Carol (Canzone D'i
Zampognari) • Up on
the Housetop.
About Hal
Leonard Guitar
Method
The
world-famous Hal Leonard
Guitar Method is
preferred by teachers
because it makes them
more effective while
making their job easier.
Students enjoy its
easy-to-follow format
that gives them a solid
music education while
letting them play songs
right away. The Hal
Leonard Guitar Method
provides a complete
system to playing success
which includes three
levels of instruction and
a myriad of play-along
supplemental songbooks
that let students play
great songs while they're
still learning to
play.
Guitar - Beginning SKU: GI.G-5781 Stories, songs, prayers and activiti...(+)
Guitar - Beginning
SKU: GI.G-5781
Stories, songs,
prayers and activities
for use with children
8–12. Composed
by John O'Brien.
Children. Sacred. Book.
With guitar chord names.
GIA Publications #5781.
Published by GIA
Publications (GI.G-5781).
ISBN 9781579991371.
English. Translation:
CEV. Text by John
O'Brien.
An
ecumenical program of
stories, activities,
songs for children
8–12 years old
(grades 3–7). Ten
original songs related to
unit themes of book,
notation in book,
recording on CD (sold
separately). CD also
contains backing tracks
for performance. When We
Listen - We’ve Got
the Power - Good Things -
We Will Bring Your Peace
- I Will Bless You, Lord
- Welcome to God’s
House - Do to Others -
Happy Are All of My
Children - We Will Make a
Place Ready - Nothing Can
Take Us Away.
Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM993663 Composed by Eric Clapton. Play Guitar With. Po...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM993663
Composed by Eric Clapton.
Play Guitar With. Pop &
Rock. Book with Online
Audio. Wise Publications
#MUSAM993663. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM993663).
ISBN
9781847725622.
Four
teen great songs with
'soundalike' backing
tracks and full
instrumental demos on
CD!
Guitar SKU: BT.MUSAM950862 Composed by Eric Clapton. Play Guitar With. Po...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.MUSAM950862
Composed by Eric Clapton.
Play Guitar With. Pop &
Rock. Book with CD. Wise
Publications
#MUSAM950862. Published
by Wise Publications
(BT.MUSAM950862).
ISBN
9780711933125.
Play
guitar and sing along
with the specially
recorded CD backing
tracks of eight great
songs. The matching music
book features both
standard and guitar tab
notation of each song,
plus chord symbols and
complete
lyricsforvocalists.
Guitar solo SKU: GH.GE-11547 Composed by Bo Hansson. Educational. Gehrman...(+)
Guitar solo
SKU:
GH.GE-11547
Composed
by Bo Hansson.
Educational. Gehrmans
Musikforlag #GE 11547.
Published by Gehrmans
Musikforlag
(GH.GE-11547).
ISBN
979-0-070-11547-6. A4
inches.
Drawing
from the same tradition
of Concert etudes as
Brouwer, Diego-Pujol and
Villa-Lobos - and perhaps
even Sor, Bo Hanssons's 5
etudes are a fine example
a compositions that blend
both musical perfection
and technical ambitions.
5 beautiful etudes meant
for performances both on
and off the concert stage
.
Voices about
5
Etudes
The
five etudes by Bo Hansson
are of the same dignity
and tradition as the
studies by Fernando Sor.
As did his predecessor,
he successfully achieved
these studies to suggest
a complete sense of
harmony and structure,
completely in accordance
with contemporary music.
The musical and technical
aims are clearly
presented to the
classical guitarist and
offer great opportunity
to develop ones own
ability. I warmly
recommend these beautiful
pieces to any
guitarist. Eric
Lammers, MSC,
Guitarist
B
o Hansson's 5 etudes is
a welcome contribution to
the guitar repertoire.
These well-composed
etudes are not only
technical etudes in a
traditional sense - they
are beautiful, idiomatic
pieces which incorporates
many ingenious and
exciting exercises. I am
confident they will be
regularly played - both
for practising and in
concerts. Warmly
recommended! Ja
n-Olof
Eriksson Professor in
Guitar Department of
Music and Media Lulea
University of Technology,
Sweden
Guitar SKU: UT.CH-363 An Anthology of Contemporary Music (Rodriguez, S...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
UT.CH-363
An
Anthology of Contemporary
Music (Rodriguez, Silva,
Zapata Bello) for
Guitar. Edited by
Piero Bonaguri. Piero
Bonaguri Collection.
Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH
363. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.CH-363).
I
welcome with great
enthusiasm the
publication of this
collection of music by
Venezuelan
guitarist-composers. I am
certain that my father
would also have been
happy, in that it shows
the productiveness and
continuity of the
Venezuelan school of
composition, ever careful
as to its own
individuality while
adhering to the canons of
so-called cultured
music. My thanks go to
Maestro Piero Bonaguri
who, with devotion and
gratitude towards one of
his teachers (whose birth
centenary occurs in
2023), has completed this
important work aimed at
spreading the new
Venezuelan musical
heritage, and I also
thank all the composers
who, with great
commitment, have wished
to honour their fellow
citizen:
Alirio. (Senio
Diaz)
I am very
happy with the release of
this anthology of pieces
written in homage to the
great guitarist Alirio
DÃaz in the
contemporary music series
that I manage. For
many years I attended his
summer courses, in Italy
and abroad, and meeting
Maestro DÃaz, who over
time also honoured me
with his friendship, was
fundamental for my
education. I was also
particularly pleased and
honoured when he invited
me to play with him in
Venezuela, and then to
have played, in the
church of the Artists in
Rome, on the sad occasion
of his funeral. The
pieces in this volume,
which by happy
coincidence comes out
near the hundredth
anniversary of the birth
of the great guitarist,
were written by composers
who are also guitarists
and demonstrate that
impressive integration in
the repertoire of the
cultivated guitar of
themes and colours of
Venezuelan folk music,
which is one of the
fundamental artistic
contributions of Alirio
DÃaz, who wrote that
folk music is as
important and cultivated
as cultivated music
itself. (Piero
Bonaguri).
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
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Following
the successful
publication of
Homenaje a Rodrigo
(2015), containing four
pieces by Alessandro
Spazzoli – one of
which was performed in
the presence of the
composer’s
daughter, Cecilia
Rodrigo, during her visit
to the International
Convention in Alessandria
–, here is the
second volume. It
contains more tributes to
Rodrigo written on my
input by five well-known
Italian and Spanish
composers, two of whom
are also guitarists and
have therefore written
the fingering for their
own pieces. Giovanni
Podera plunges us into a
typically Rodrigo-like
atmosphere with his
evocative
Fantasia, while
the following three
compositions are full of
direct quotations from
pieces also for guitar by
the great composer from
Valencia. Thus, Marco
Simoni, in his expressive
Junto a Rodrigo
– which also
provides the title to the
volume – plays
with themes taken from
Junto al
Generalife and from
Dos piezas
caballerescas for a
cello ensemble as well as
hinting at reminiscences
of Tiento antiguo.
As for Marco Smaili, in
his impressionistic
Fronda de la
tarde, he evokes
quite evidently
Zarabanda lejana
and Invocación y
Danza, but there are
more hidden references to
Caminos de
Santiago and even to
the very famous
Concierto de
Aranjuez. Marco
Reghezza builds his
heart-breaking Nana
estrellada on a
sequence of chords used
by Rodrigo in the
fantasia ¡Que buen
caminito!. On the
other hand, there are no
direct quotations and
echoes of
Rodrigo’s way of
writing in the Fuga a
quattro voci by Paolo
Ugoletti. However it was
Rodrigo himself who
constructed four-part
imitative passages for
guitar in
Pasacalle and in
the Ricercare of the
Fantasia para un
Gentilhombre. The
close polyphony of the
piece by Ugoletti may be
considered as a tribute
to this kind of craft
shown by Rodrigo who,
like Ugoletti, was able
to write such dense and
idiomatic counterpoint
without being a
guitar-player. I am
pleased that this volume
comes out in the
imminence of the 20th
anniversary of the
disappearance of the
illustrious Spanish
composer who gave so much
to the musicians –
and not only to
them. (Piero
Bonaguri)
Guitar SKU: LM.27634 Composed by Patrice Jania. Michel Leclerc. Pop, jazz...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
LM.27634
Composed by
Patrice Jania. Michel
Leclerc. Pop, jazz. Score
and CD. Editions Henry
Lemoine #27634. Published
by Editions Henry Lemoine
(LM.27634).
ISBN
9790230976343.
Nobo
dy knows the trouble I've
seen - Oh happy day - I
shall not be rnoved - Go
down Moses - How great t
ho u art - Down by the
riversside - Will the
circle be unbroken -
Battle hymn of the
republic - Wade in the
water - Amazing grace -
This litle light of mine
- When the saints go
marching in.