Guitar - Advanced SKU: MB.30762M Saddle-stitched, Solos. American Music. ...(+)
Guitar - Advanced
SKU:
MB.30762M
Saddle-stitched, Solos.
American Music. Book and
online audio. 24 pages.
Mel Bay Publications, Inc
#30762M. Published by Mel
Bay Publications, Inc
(MB.30762M).
ISBN
9781513465692. 8.75x11.75
inches.
Civil War
Suite for Classical
Guitar is a
collection of ten Civil
War-era songs arranged in
standard notation for the
advanced solo classical
guitarist. The suite
includes music from the
Confederacy and the
Union, along with
soldier's songs, parlor
songs, and an African
American spiritual. The
sequencing of the pieces
is designed to create a
musical narrative, with
songs grouped in a manner
that shows various
perspectives of the war
before ultimately
celebrating Union
victory. Throughout the
suite, extensive passages
feature delightful
special effects that
emulate period
instruments such as the
banjo, snare drum, and
fiddle. Includes access
to online
audio.
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: BT.CAZJSBCELL01 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged b...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
BT.CAZJSBCELL01
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Arranged
by Richard Wright. Exam
Material. Book Only.
Composed 2008. Cadenza
Music #CAZJSBCELL01.
Published by Cadenza
Music (BT.CAZJSBCELL01).
For more
than a century guitarists
have been irresistibly
drawn to Bach’s
remarkable cello suites.
Here, for the first time,
are the first four in the
easiest and most resonant
guitar keys. Suites
I–IV must
betransposed to work on
the guitar, whereas Suite
V is always played in A
minor, in Bach’s
own lute version, and the
equally demanding Suite
VI can only be played in
its original key of
D.
By adding as
little aspossible, these
arrangements preserve the
integrity of the
originals, in which
melody, bass and harmony
are woven effortlessly
into a single fabric.
They also, crucially,
offer the guitarist Bach
at a lower level of
difficultythanhis music
for lute or unaccompanied
violin.
Another
unique feature is the
inclusion of optional
‘improvised’
divisions –
suggestions for the
additional ornamentation
of passages to reflect
typical18th-century
performance
practice.
This
is an essential addition
to any guitarist's
library with selected
movements featured in the
2009 ABRSM guitar
syllabus (Grades
5-8).
&ldquo
;This publication
beatsthe others hands
down; no contest. I
can’t see me
needing any other edition
of these four suites.
They are that good. Buy
with
confidence.”Classical
Guitar
Guitar SKU: FG.55011-071-7 Hommage to Paul Klee. Composed by Kai N...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
FG.55011-071-7
Hommage to Paul
Klee. Composed by Kai
Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman
#55011-071-7. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-071-7).
ISBN
9790550110717.
Comp
leted in Karstula,
Finland during late July
2010, this carefully
structured, but also
free-ranging work is
drawn from ideas for a
much earlier work in four
movements, Fantasy dating
from the 1980s. Kai
Nieminen has been for a
long time an admirer of
the work of artist Paul
Klee (1879-1940), and the
solo presented in its
final form here is
influenced by the
painting Dances caused by
Fear or as it is often
refered to Dancing from
Fear painted towards the
end of Klee's life in
Bern, 1938. Having
left Germany for
Switzerland in December
1933, Klee's later works
were often full of signs
and lines, very often
represented in black,
depicting human figures
or various objects
against a variety of
coloured backgrounds, in
the case of this painting
of a brownish hue. This
development in his
painting style and
technique is felt by some
to be an effect perhaps
of his long-term illness,
systemic sclerosis, but
in the case of Dances
caused by Fear there is
suggested an atmosphere
of panic and terror, an
attempt to escape from
horrors to come (World
War II), represented in
the violent movement of
the arms and legs of the
figures, and the dark,
indeed brooding nature of
the colours. In Kai
Nieminen's guitar work
Images of Fear, there is
only a very brief passage
of calm at the very
beginning, after which
come three main connected
sections in which a wide
range of musically
unsettling ideas emerge
one by one, making use of
the tritone, minor
seconds, glissandos,
tamboura, campanella,
etc. The third and final
section incorporates the
grouping of 5
sixteenth-notes, to give
an uneasy feeling to the
music, with a short
haunting and pleading
five-note phrase
(Cantando) heard
immediately following
this passage, before the
work ends with further
glissandos, and distant
and diminishing
harmonics. As with
Kai Nieminen's other
guitar works, the use of
'orchestral colour' is
vital to the performance,
and passages suggestive
of for example brass,
strings, woodwind, etc.,
should be taken into
account and played with
suitably considered
contrast of tone.
Guitar SKU: HL.286931 Classical Guitar. Composed by Johann Sebasti...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
HL.286931
Classical Guitar.
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Arranged
by Richard Wright. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Softcover. Cadenza Music
#M0708057994. Published
by Cadenza Music
(HL.286931).
0.244
inches.
For more
than a century guitarists
have been irresistibly
drawn to Bach's
remarkable cello suites.
Here, for the first time,
are thefirst four in the
easiest and most resonant
guitar keys. Suites I-IV
must be transposed to
work on the guitar,
whereas Suite V is always
played in A minor, in
Bach's own lute version,
and the equally demanding
Suite VI can only be
played in its original
key of D. By adding as
little as possible, these
arrangements preserve the
integrity of the
originals, in which
melody, bass and harmony
are woven effortlessly
into a single fabric.
They also, crucially,
offer the guitarist Bach
at a lower level of
difficulty than his music
for lute or unaccompanied
violin. Another unique
feature is the inclusion
of optional 'improvised'
divisions - suggestions
for the additional
ornamentation of passages
to reflect typical
18th-century performance
practice. This is an
essential addition to any
guitarist's library with
selected movements
featured in the 2009
ABRSM guitar syllabus
(Grades 5-8). This
publication beats the
others hands down; no
contest. I can't see me
needing any other edition
of these four suites.
They are that good. Buy
with confidence.
Classical Guitar.
Guitar Solo SKU: IS.G6765EM Composed by Silvio Leopold Weiss. Arranged by...(+)
Guitar Solo
SKU:
IS.G6765EM
Composed
by Silvio Leopold Weiss.
Arranged by Ben Beuming.
Plucked - Guitar.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #G6765EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.G6765EM).
Guitar SKU: FG.55011-321-3 Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #550...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
FG.55011-321-3
Composed by Kai Nieminen.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-321-3. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-321-3).
ISBN
9790550113213.
Kai
Nieminen's Northern
Spells for solo guitar is
a unique combination of
Northern mystique, nature
and age-old rituals. The
mood of the opening
Invocation and Spell is
shrouded in mystery
dotted with moments of
brightness, and
chant-like rhythmic
passages. As its name
suggests, the second
movement, Atmosfera, is
atmospheric and airy,
reiterating a melody that
creates an image of
something ancient and
distant. The recurring
pentatonic figures in the
closing Charm conjure
forth a rhythmic and at
times even lithe
conclusion.
Strong contrasts are one
of the hallmarks of
Nieminen's music, and
this work is no
exception. The guitarist
must have a consummate
ability to extract
specific tones and
effects from his or her
instrument in order to
bring out the required
nuances and sometimes
even ritualistic moods.
One special feature of
the work is the damped
sound made in the bass by
gently pressing the
string with the left-hand
finger near the nut. This
produces a muffled,
mystic, drum-like sound
that has to be rounded,
altogether resonant and
ear-catching. Throughout
all the movements and
moods of this work, the
player has to choose the
timbres very carefully.
The performance must be
as imposing and
multidimensional as the
arctic nature that allows
Northern spells to
reawaken in the
present-day world.