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.
Suite No. 1 Guitare Guitare classique [Conducteur] - 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.
In
September of 2018,
guitarist, Toby
McWilliams commissioned
Cruz to write a
three-movement guitar
solo after hearing his
Five Pieces in C on the
internationally
syndicated radio show,
Classical Guitar Alive.
McWilliams requested the
first movement to be in
sonata-allegro form
followed by two other
pieces that reflect the
tempo choices of a
typical three-movement
sonatina. As is the case
with most of Cruz’s
music, this Sonatina was
completed as music
written for music’s
sake. However, in his
quest to find titles
other than tempo
markings, Cruz plucked
three words from the
correspondence between
himself and McWilliams
that together, add a
personal touch to the
collection while
suggesting a progression
of an imaginary
day’s
events.
A point of
interest in the first
movement, A theme: Cruz
begins on the IV chord
and intentionally avoids
using a proper I chord
throughout. While the B
section does begin in the
dominant key, it moves
quickly towards a D major
tonal
center.
Festival
(3rd movement) uses a
bitonal opening theme: E
major in the top voice
while the bass line uses
E minor.
Ada Guitare Guitare classique [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire Productions OZ
Guitar solo - Intermediate SKU: DZ.DZ-4316 Composed by Mehmet Refik Kaya....(+)
Guitar solo -
Intermediate
SKU:
DZ.DZ-4316
Composed
by Mehmet Refik Kaya.
Arranged by Celil Refik
Kaya. Score. Les
Productions d'OZ #DZ
4316. Published by Les
Productions d'OZ
(DZ.DZ-4316).
ISBN
9782898522338.
Ada
(Island) is a captivating
composition that was
originally written in
2011 for the Turkish
lute. This piece draws
its inspiration from the
tranquil and picturesque
atmosphere of
Büyükada,
one of the charming
islands in the Sea of
Marmara.
Büyükada,
with its serene
landscapes, historical
architecture, and
tranquil shores, serves
as a perfect muse for the
evocative melodies and
intricate harmonies that
characterize Ada
(Island).
Ada
(Island) was later
arranged for classical
guitar. This adaptation
allows the composition to
reach a broader audience
while retaining its
original charm and depth.
The classical guitar
arrangement highlights
the versatility of the
piece, maintaining its
delicate nuances and
evocative melodies, while
offering a new
perspective through the
guitar's distinctive
tonal
qualities.
Whether
performed on the Turkish
lute or the classical
guitar, Ada (Island)
remains a poignant
tribute to the enchanting
beauty of
Büyükada,
capturing the island's
essence and transporting
listeners to its serene
shores.
Guitar - Advanced SKU: DY.DO-1555 Composed by Stephen Goss. Score. Les Ed...(+)
Guitar - Advanced
SKU:
DY.DO-1555
Composed
by Stephen Goss. Score.
Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan #DO 1555.
Published by Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan
(DY.DO-1555).
ISBN
9782897963354.
Pier
rot, or Harlequin? (2023)
is based on stock
characters from the
Italian commedia
dell’arte tradition.
Columbina has a choice of
partner – Pierrot,
or Harlequin? Or maybe
she will select neither
of them. In this set of
triple variations,
Pierrot and Harlequin
compete for Columbina's
attention and favour.
Pierrot is deep, quiet,
thoughtful, and loving,
but sometimes
melancholic. Harlequin is
light-hearted, extrovert,
and fun to be with, but
somewhat shallow and
brash. Columbina herself
is coquettish, impulsive,
and unpredictable. How
will the story end
between these imperfect
characters? The performer
gets to select one of
three possible endings as
the piece nears its
conclusion. Pierrot,
or Harlequin? was
commissioned by the
International Guitar
Festival Homenaje 2023.
The premiere was given by
Giacomo Susani at Barco
Teatro, Padova, Italy, on
10th November
2023.
Guitar - early intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1053811-401 Popsongs voor klas...(+)
Guitar - early
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1053811-401
Popsongs voor klassiek
gitaar. Arranged by
Herman Smies. Pop and
Rock. Book Only. Composed
2005. 28 pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1053811-401. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1053811-401).
ISBN 9789043122382.
9x12 inches.
English-German-French-Dut
ch.
The pop songs
in this collection of
well-known 50â??s,
60â??s and 70â??s
hitshave been carefully
adapted and arranged to
make them suitable
forplaying on a classical
or acoustic guitar. The
pieces have beenordered
by difficulty, beginning
with pieces in which the
melody andbass notes are
struck separately and
gradually progressing to
moredifficult pieces
where a slightly more
advanced technique is
required.
De
songs in deze verzameling
van bekende hits uit de
jaren vijftig, zestig en
zeventig zijn zorgvuldig
aangepast en gearrangeerd
om ze geschikt te maken
voor klassiek of
akoestisch gitaar. Ze
zijn oplopend in
moeilijkheidsgraad,
beginnendmet nummers
waarin de melodie- en
basnoten ongelijk worden
aangeslagen, gevolgd door
gaandeweg moeilijker
nummers. Een tijdloze
verzameling.
Diese
s Buch ist ein absolutes
Muss für alle
Musikfans. Es ist perfekt
geeignet für Spieler
von klassischen oder
akustischen Gitarren, die
auf der Suche nach
leichten, aber pfiffigen
Bearbeitungen der Hits
der vergangenen
Jahrzehnte sind. Die
Stücke steigen im
Schwierigkeitsgrad
allmählich an; die
ersten Lieder sind noch
vielleichter zu spielen,
da die Bass- und
Melodienoten separat
angeschlagen werden. Eine
zeitlose Sammlung, die
sicher immer wieder aufs
Neue durchgespielt
wird!
All Time
Guitar Hits è una
raccolta indispensabile
per tutti gli amanti dei
grandi successi del
decennio passato. Gli
arrangiamenti sono
tecnicamente accessibili
alla maggior parte dei
chitarristi. I brani sono
raccolti in modo
progressivo in funzione
delle difficolt tecniche
che contengono.
58
Easy Pieces for
Guitar. Arranged by
Martin Hegel. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music
with CD. Guitar. Dieses
Heft enthalt alles, was
man fur den
Gitarrenunterricht
braucht: 58 leichte
originale Gitarrenstucke
von Aguado, Mertz,
Diabelli, Carulli, Sor
oder Carcassi, aber auch
leicht spielbare
Bearbeitungen der
klassischen Musik aus den
Bereichen Orchesterm.
Softcover with CD. 46
pages. Schott Music
#ED21305. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49019327).
ISBN
9783795747558. UPC:
841886018204.
9.0x12.0x0.2
inches.
This volume
contains everything
needed for guitar
lessons: 58 easy original
guitar pieces by Aguado,
Mertz, Diabelli, Carulli,
Sor or Carcassi, but also
easy-to-play arrangements
of classical music from
the fields of orchestral
music, chamber music or
opera. Among them are
themes from Vivaldi's
Four Seasons, from
Handel's Music for the
Royal Fireworks, Mozart's
Magic Flute, Beethoven's
Symphony No. 9 or Verdi's
Chorus of the Hebrew
Slaves. It is this
volume's concern to make
classical masterpieces of
concert literature
accessible to children by
means of such rather easy
arrangements and make
them enjoy classical
music. All pieces are
recorded on the
accompanying CD to make
it easier for the pupils
to study and master the
works.
Appassionatango Guitare Guitare classique [Conducteur] - Avancé Productions OZ
Guitar solo - Advanced SKU: DZ.DZ-4286 Composed by Patrick Roux. Score. L...(+)
Guitar solo - Advanced
SKU: DZ.DZ-4286
Composed by Patrick Roux.
Score. Les Productions
d'OZ #DZ 4286. Published
by Les Productions d'OZ
(DZ.DZ-4286).
ISBN
9782898522031.
Appa
ssionatango is a work
written in the style of
tango nuevo. It lasts
approximately 8'30 and
consists of 4
interconnected episodes
that reflect the various
passionate
characteristics of this
music: fiery and rhythmic
(episode 1), fast-paced
and captivating (episode
2), nostalgic and
melancholic (episode 3),
a synthesis and
amalgamation of themes
explored throughout the
piece culminating in a
virtuosic and explosive
finale (episode 4). It's
a piece filled with
emotion, energy, and
changes in character that
wonderfully capture the
essence of tango nuevo
passion!
Guitar - Advanced SKU: DY.DO-1531 Composed by Atanas Ourkouzounov. Score....(+)
Guitar - Advanced
SKU:
DY.DO-1531
Composed
by Atanas Ourkouzounov.
Score. Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan #DO 1531.
Published by Les Editions
Doberman-Yppan
(DY.DO-1531).
ISBN
9782897963118.
The
piece Chronicles of
Thamyris was written at
the request of Greek
guitarist Sotiris
Athanasiou for his
recording project with
pieces based on Greek
mythology. I chose the
myth of Thamyris who was
a musician of Thracian
origin. In each movement
I imagined an episode of
this myth. The first
movement is composed as a
narrative. The second, as
the title indicates, is
the episode of the
competition between
Thamyris and the Muses.
In the third, according
to the myth, Thamyris
will become blind and
will break his lyre. The
last movement is an
imaginary dance from his
native Thrace.
Guitar - Advanced SKU: DZ.DZ-4262 Composed by Bryan Johanson and Jesse Mc...(+)
Guitar - Advanced
SKU:
DZ.DZ-4262
Composed
by Bryan Johanson and
Jesse McCann. Method
Book. Les Productions
d'OZ #DZ 4262. Published
by Les Productions d'OZ
(DZ.DZ-4262).
ISBN
9782898521799.
In
this ambitious series,
Bryan Johanson and Jesse
McCann seek to address
this missing element in
the study of classical
guitar. In light of the
sheer volume of guitar
music written over the
centuries, not to men-
tion early works by the
guitar’s
plucked-string relatives,
the authors’ choices
were by necessity limited
to a select group of
standards. These might be
considered among the most
popular works in the
guitar canon, admired
over the years by
performers, students, and
audiences alike for their
beauty, musical
expression, and idiomatic
sonority. There are, of
course, other pieces that
could have been included.
But by choosing works
that give a broad survey
of styles across musical
periods (Renaissance,
Baroque, Classical,
Romantic, and early 20th
century) written by some
of the guitar’s most
important composers, the
authors present a com-
prehensive cross-section
of the essential
repertoire for the
instrument. - William
Kanengiser
(A Workbook for Beginning, Intermediate or Advanced Students). Composed by M...(+)
(A Workbook for
Beginning,
Intermediate or Advanced
Students). Composed by
Miles
Okazaki. For guitar.
Spiral-
bound. Guitar Methods,
Scales, Arpeggios,
Technique, Theory,
Harmony.
Book. 166 pages.
Published
by Mel Bay Publications,
Inc
It’
s a beautiful journey
through the tones that I
offer you with these two
pieces.
The first
The Stations of the Cross
express the 14 scenes of
the Passion of Christ
through a simple arpeggio
and 14 different tones.
The 12 minor keys which
begin the work in a
perfectly natural way (D,
A, E, B, F#, C#, G#, D#,
Bb, F, C, G) are followed
by two major keys (D and
the) who come conclude
the work as a triumphant
deliverance.
The
second piece Labyrinthe
uses the same principle,
but in a different way.
With another arpeggio and
major and minor tones
which follow one another
alternating in a natural
way through a slight
mutation, leading us
astray in the meanders of
the tones, to finally
find ourselves in the
original tone, we thus
delivering from this
great labyrinth (do, lam,
re, sim, mi, do#m, fa#,
re#m, ab, fam and
do).
I hope that
the discoverers of these
pieces will have the same
pleasure that I had in
composing them for
them.
Guitar SKU: BT.HITPCPTGUITTAB01 Composed by M. Khalifa. Collection Rama. ...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.HITPCPTGUITTAB01
Composed by M. Khalifa.
Collection Rama. Book
with CD. Composed 2015.
96 pages. Hit Diffusion
#HITPCPTGUITTAB01.
Published by Hit
Diffusion
(BT.HITPCPTGUITTAB01).
Rock Strings Guitare - Facile De Haske Publications
Guitar - early intermediate SKU: BT.DHP-1043559-401 18 rock songs for ...(+)
Guitar - early
intermediate
SKU:
BT.DHP-1043559-401
18 rock songs for
acoustic guitar.
Composed by JNM van den
Langenberg. Educational
Tool. Book Only. Composed
2004. 44 pages. De Haske
Publications #DHP
1043559-401. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-1043559-401).
ISBN 9789043120005.
International.
A
range of styles based on
rock ‘n’
roll are to be found in
this book, from high
school ballads and pop
rock to country rock and
hard rock. Thanks to this
diversity of styles
there’s bound to
be something that
everyone will enjoy -
including those who
can’t read music.
They can start rocking
with the tablature
version, which depicts
the strings in visual
form so would-be rock
stars can see immediately
where to put their
fingers.
Rock
Strings bevat nummers
waarin authentieke
rockmotieven op een
toegankelijke manier zijn
verwerkt - voor de
akoestische gitaar met
nylon of stalen snaren.
De nummers lopen op in
moeilijkheidsgraad en van
elk stuk is steedseen
tabulatuurversie gegeven.
Afwisseling en
stijlzuiverheid zijn de
belangrijkste factoren in
dit boek. Met Rock
Strings kunnen
akoestisch spelende
gitaristen aan de slag
met rockmuziek in diverse
stijlen. De
akkoordsymbolenmaken ook
samenspel met anderen
mogelijk.
Rock
Strings enthält
Stücke, die
authentische Rockstile in
einer leicht
zugänglichen Weise
vorstellen - für
akustische Gitarren mit
Nylonsaiten oder
Stahlsaiten. Die
Stücke sind in
ansteigendem
Schwierigkeitsgrad
geordnet. Daneben gibt es
auch jeweils eine
Tabulatur-Version. Dank
der Akkordsymbole
können die Stücke
auch in Gruppen gespielt
werden. Vielfältigkeit
und Stilreinheit sind die
wichtigsten Aspekte
dieses Buchs. Mit Rock
Strings kann nun
jeder alle Arten von
Rockmusik
spielen!
Rock
Strings propone brani
scritti in autentico
stile rock, presentati in
modo facile ed
accessibile. Adattati
alla chitarra acustica
con corde di nylon e di
metallo, i brani sono
proposti in ordine di
difficolt . Troverete
anche una tavola con gli
accordi. Con Rock
Strings, il rock e gli
stili affini sono alla
portata di tutti i
chitarristi acustici. E
con la tavola degli
accordi potrete suonare
in ensemble.
Performed by Al Di Meola (1954-). Instructional book for guitar. With standard g...(+)
Performed by Al Di Meola
(1954-). Instructional
book for guitar. With
standard guitar notation
(no tablature), black &
white photos and
instructional text. 32
pages. Published by 21st
Century Publications.
Fingerstyle and Plectrum Pieces for Trinity College London Exams 2020-2023. Cl...(+)
Fingerstyle and Plectrum
Pieces
for Trinity College
London
Exams 2020-2023.
Classical.
Textbook. Trinity College
London #TCL019943.
Published
by Trinity College London