Solo guitar

SKU: PE.EP68585

5 Pieces. Composed by John Cage. Arranged by Aaron Larget-Caplan. Guitar/Plucked Instruments (solo). Edition Peters. 20th Century. Score. 24 pages. Edition Peters #98-EP68585. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP68585).

ISBN 9790300759852. 232 x 303mm inches.

Pian o Music Arranged for Guitar features five early and mid-career compositions by John Cage, dating from 1933 through 1948, all arranged for solo guitar by Aaron Larget-Caplan. The compositions required little adjustment from the originals, mainly in the form of register modifications, and fit very well on the guitar. All phrase and dynamic markings follow the published originals. Very few left and right hand fingerings are included in the publication to allow the performers their own realizations. All of the works retain their original keys and are presented in chronological order:

 

Three Easy Pieces (Round, Duo, Infinite Cannon)

A Room

Chess Pieces

Dream

In A Landscape

 

Cage’s exploration of contrapuntal music and simple forms are found early on in works for two voices and the use of unusual phrases lengths. The later works explore modes, resonance, and begin to show influences of Far East aesthetics in their spaciousness and dealings with time.

The collection is only the second work in the Cage Oeuvre to be published featuring the guitar, the first being Larget-Caplan’s arrangement of ‘Six Melodies’ for violin & guitar issued in 2015.

 

A recording dedicated to John Cage on guitar will be released in 2018 on Stone Records Limited (UK).

Composed by Frederic Hand. Performance score. With Standard notation. Handwerks Music #494-03105. Published by Handwerks Music

By by. For Guitar. CD; Guitar (Suzuki); Method/Instruction. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

By by. For Guitar. CD; Guitar (Suzuki); Method/Instruction. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Guitar

SKU: BA.BVK01902

Composed by Berthold Kloss. Hardback. Mein Instrument. Book. 32 pages. Baerenreiter Verlag #BVK01902_00. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BVK01902).

ISBN 9783761819029. 30.5 x 23.5 cm inches. Illustrations: Heiki Prange.

The Barenreiter series Mein Instrument (My Instrument) is designed for students who want to obtain further information on the instrument they have chosen to learn.

Each picture book offers a large variety of facts and information regarding the history of an instrument, its functions, its technical aspects, its relation to other instruments and its theoretical basics. The book ends with details about great composers and players.

These books are ideal as gifts for students who are beginning with an instrument and for anybody who is interested in the history and function of musical instruments. Now books about Violin, Piano, Guitar, Recorder, Flute, Clarinet and Trumpet have already been released.

By Andrew D. Gordon and Joe N. De Sa. For guitar. Jazz Latin. Level: intermediate. Book with CD. 75 pages. Published by ADG productions.

Guitar - Intermediate

SKU: MB.31060M

Perfect binding. Jazz. Book and online audio. 180 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31060M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31060M).

ISBN 9781513468051. 8.75x11.75 inches.

As aspiring fingerpicking guitarists started expanding their horizons from folk, blues, and ragtime in the 1970s, it was only logical to look towards early jazz tunes as a vast source for new possibilities. For one thing, they could follow the same evolutionary path from ragtime to jazz that had been taken by pianists such as Jelly Roll Morton and Harlem stride players like James P. Johnson and Fats Waller. These musicians all composed in a variety of styles, but their most ambitious piano solos expanded on the classic ragtime format developed by the likes of Scott Joplin, James Scott, and Joseph Lamb, using several strains that usually changed keys at least once. Morton, the self-proclaimed inventor of jazz, would record versions of tunes like King Porter Stomp and The Original Jelly Roll Blues that are similar to straight ragtime performances, and others where there is lots of room left for embellishment and jazz improvisation.

The present collection is a bonanza for guitarists who want to tackle advanced arrangements along the lines of ragtime but featuring jazz age harmonies from the playing of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, WC Handy, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and other early jazz legends. The 32 arrangements included are by a wide assortment of guitarists including Ernie Hawkins, Pat Donohue, Lasse Johansson, Duck Baker, Ton Van Bergeyk, Sandy Shalk, Steve McWilliam, and Dorian Henry.

Titles include: Oh, You Beautiful Doll, I’ve Got The Blues, High Society, St. Louis Blues, Davenport Blues, Poor Butterfly, Dixie Jass Band One-Step, Memphis Blues, Big Foot Ham, Grandpa’s Spells, The Original Jelly Roll Blues, Midnight Mama, Milenberg Joys, Fizz Water, Back Home in Indiana, Sweet Georgia Brown, Red Wing (An Indian Intermezzo), There’ll Be Some Changes Made, Way Down Yonder In New Orleans, Charleston, Where The Morning Glories Grow, Limehouse Blues, Susie (of the Islands), I Need Some Pettin’, Weather Bird, Cornet Chop Suey, Kansas City Stomps, King Porter Stomp, Jubilee Stomp, Take It Easy, If I Had You, Moonlight Serenade

Raising Your Chord Awareness. Composed by Andrew Green. Squareback saddle-stitched. Jazz and Contemporary; Technique, Theory, Reference & Rhythm. Book & Online Audio. 136 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Saddle-stitched. Folk. Book and online audio. 172 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31061M. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc