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.
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55 song
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Blind Lemon
Jefferson was a trail
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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
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folk, had for the
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author John Miller
presents transcriptions,
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tablature, of 22 of
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For
Solo Guitar critical
edition and notes for the
interpretation.
Composed by Mauro
Giuliani. Arranged by
Fré, dé, and
ric Zigante. Editions
Durand. Classical.
Softcover. 176 pages.
Editions Durand
#DF01669600. Published by
Editions Durand
(HL.50566004).
ISBN
9781705150580. UPC:
196288017639.
9.0x12.0x0.48
inches.
Mauro
Giuliani's Rossiniane,
published between 1821
and 1828, are a series of
six musical potpourris
entirely based on the
music of Gioachino
Rossini. The potpourri
was one of the most
popular instrumental
genres of the early
1800s, an assembly of
musical themes with
different origins
combined into a single
composition. In the
absence of the modern
means of reproducing
music, they had a very
important function: of
bringing music, most
often created for the
theatre, into the home.
Some important points can
be deduced from
Giuliani's epistolary
exchanges: the first is
that the Rossiniane were
part of his own concert
repertoire: the second is
that Rossini was not only
aware of the project
which would bear his
name, but also
collaborated with
Giuliani in some ways,
providing him with some
themes expressly composed
for his works. The third
is that Giuliani was well
aware that these pieces
represented a new
development for his own
compositions and for the
musical panorama of the
time, “a
hitherto-unknown
style.†This
edition of the Rossiniane
is based on the
contemporary musical
sources that have come
down to us. It is
enhanced by some remarks
on interpretation that
should help towards
making an accurate and
coherent reading of this
distinctive and original
musical text.
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Composed
by Silvio Leopold Weiss.
Arranged by Ben Beuming.
Plucked - Guitar.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #G6765EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.G6765EM).
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Composed by Manuel Ponce.
Edited by Stefano
Grondona. This edition:
Saddle-wire stitching.
Sheet music with Online
material. Critical
Edition. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#GHE 702-96. Published by
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Pour la guitare.
Composed by Antoine de
Lhoyer. Edited by Erik
Stenstadvold. This
edition: Saddle-wire
stitching. Sheet music.
Performing score,
Critical Edition. Op. 27.
20 pages. MDS (Music
Distribution Services)
#GHE 701. Published by
MDS (Music Distribution
Services) (M7.GHE-701).
ISBN 9783890447018.
English.
We proudly
present this new modern
critical edition of
Antoine de Lhoyer's Six
Exercices Op. 27,
originally published in
Paris around 1812. These
exercises, originally
written for 5-string
guitar, are remarkably
advanced for their time
and well worth playing;
the rapid arpeggio
patterns and daring
harmonic shifts in some
of them may bring even
Villa-Lobos to mind. The
Six Exercices Op. 27 were
arranged by Giuliani and
published some 7 years
later under his name as
Six Preludes Op. 83. The
exercises were originally
written for 5-string
guitar. We have added
alternative readings for
using the 6th string, an
often employed publishing
practice of the period.
The music is edited and
fingered by Erik
Stenstadvold, an
authority on the guitar
repertoire of the early
19th century. There is
also an informative
preface, with full
biographical details and
critical notes.
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Composed by
Ferdinando Carulli.
Edited by Romolo
Calandruccio. Classical.
Score. Ut Orpheus #CH
387. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.CH-387).
ISBN 9790215328235. 9
x 12 inches.
Opus
114 is certainly one of
Carulliâ??s most
important didactic works,
so much so that the
author himself made a
point of writing in the
second edition of his
famous Method op. 27
(1819): The student, when
moving on to the second
part, must continue to
practise on the easy
pieces which are to be
found in opus nos. 50,
15, 35, 36, 93, 7 and
above all in opus 114. He
maintained this
indication also in later
editions of the Method
itself, unlike what he
did with other
collections of studies
which were no longer
recommended. The
purpose of op. 114, in
particular of the
preludes, is clearly
explained by the author
himself in the preface of
op. 265: I have already
offered preludes in my
opus nos. 71 and 114 to
people, but they serve to
study and learn to play
all sorts of difficult
passages, to practise
modulating, and learn to
improvise on the guitar.
Carulli seems to want to
provide his students with
a large handbook of
formulas typical of his
musical writing and he
does so by making use of
the keys which, in his
opinion, are most
congenial to the guitar.
In his Method he points
out: Each instrument has
its favourite keys: the
guitar can be played in
all keys, but the best
ones are: A major and
minor, D major and minor,
E major and minor, C, G,
F. The others are
difficult; [â?¦].
However, some of the
difficult ones are
included but only in the
fourth part. Of course,
the easiness of a key
essentially depends on
the possibility of
extensive use of the open
strings, especially in
the low notes, ensuring
the accompaniment on the
main degrees. This
edition has some unique
features. First of all,
it is the first complete
modern edition of
Carulliâ??s op. 114; it
presents an important
critical apparatus in
which the Carullian
technique is presented
and analysed; finally,
Carulli's original
fingering is indicated in
the score (including that
of the thumb of the left
hand) and the missing one
was obtained from the
comparison of his other
fingerings present in
other works. All this
allows an easy and
complete reading both for
those who perform the
pieces following the
nineteenth-century
performance practice with
a historical instrument,
and for those who play a
modern instrument.
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Spiral-
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Technique, Theory,
Harmony.
Book. 166 pages.
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guitars. Complete. All
styles. Level:
Intermediate-Advanced.
Book. Theory and harmony.
Size 8.75x11.75. 248
pages. Published by Mel
Bay Pub., Inc.
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Edited
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Composed by Julio
Sagreras. Edited by
Fré, dé, and
ric Zigante. Guitar.
Classical. Softcover.
Ricordi #ER00307900.
Published by Ricordi
(HL.50605477).
ISBN
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196288126119.
Julio
Sagreras was born in
Buenos Aires in 1879 into
a family of Spanish
origins. Both of his
parents, Gaspar Sagreras
and Dolores Ramirez, were
guitarists. From a very
young age Julio showed
extraordinary musical
skills that made him an
admired and requested
guitarist in all the
musical salons of the
Argentine capital. This
edition differs from the
previous ones not only
for a new and more modern
musical graphics, for the
simplification of the
fingerings that Sagreras
pedantically repeated
even in the most obvious
situations, for the
correction of errors, the
development ofmore
detailed explanations and
the addition of some
necessary historical and
practical
clarifications.
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From the
Classic Hot Licks Video
Series Newly Transcribed
and Edited!. By
Johnny Hiland. Hot Licks.
Country Instruction.
Softcover Video Online.
With guitar tablature. 32
pages. Published by Hal
Leonard (HL.289980).
ISBN 9781540047267.
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All the guitar tab from
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transcriptions ever
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Plus, we've included tab
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Composed
by Silvio Leopold Weiss.
Arranged by Ben Beuming.
Plucked - Guitar.
Metropolis Music
Publishers #G6767EM.
Published by Metropolis
Music Publishers
(IS.G6767EM).
ISBN
9790365067671.
This
sonata (WeissSW No. 15,
London) is one of a new
series of eight sonatas
by Silvius Leopold Weiss
arranged for the first
time for guitar and
published by Metropolis
Music. Sonata X comes
from Weissâ??s middle
â??productiveâ??
period, thought to have
taken place between 1719
and 1725. The original
tablature manuscript is
in the British Library
(London Ms. Add. 30387).
The Sonata has six
movements: Allemande,
Courante, Paisane,
Sarabande, Menuet, and it
ends with a Gigue. There
is a another copy of this
Sonata in the Warszawa
Biblioteka Uniwersytecka
Poland (in its entirety),
and a copy in the
Sächsisches
Landesbibliothek in
Dresden (Suite XXVI),
which contains three
concordant movements:
Allemande, Courante, and
the Gigue. The Dresden
manuscript displays some
differences from the
London manuscript. This
Edition has taken those
differences into account
in certain details.
Originally, the Sonata is
written in B flat major,
a key often used by Weiss
as it is appropriate for
playing the lute, but
rather awkward with the
guitar. For ease and
effectiveness of playing,
I have transposed the
Sonata a minor third
lower to G major. To
create more concordance
with the baroque tuning
of the lute, the G string
is lowered by a semitone
to F sharp. I suggest
using a capodastro to
achieve the original
pitch. Based on the
present standard of A at
440 Hertz, the capo
should be placed at the
3rd fret. However, during
Weissâ??s lifetime, it
was more common in many
parts of Germany to use a
standard of A at 415
Hertz -â? a semitone
lower. So, to hear the
pitch heard by Weiss and
his contemporaries, the
capo should then be
positioned at the 2nd
fret.