Download or read book Classical Guitar Tunes Beautiful American Airs and Ballads written by Tanja Miric and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 19th and early 20th century airs and ballads is a celebration of American music that is ideal for guitar recitals and encores. Written in standard notation only, the pieces are arranged and fingered for ease of sight-reading and specifically designed to exploit the musicality of the classical guitar. The book features arrangements of the antebellum song, “Darling Nelly Gray” by Benjamin Hanby, popular Civil War-era songs by Stephen Foster and other period songwriters, plus parlor music favorites like Edward MacDowell’s “To a Wild Rose”, Ethelbert Nevin’s “Mighty Lak’ a Rose”, and “Aura Lee”, a melody by George R. Poulton that would resurface nearly a hundred years later as “Love Me Tender”.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Beautiful American Airs and Ballads written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 25 lyrical North American melodies scored for guitar solo. Some of the solos have historical themes and some are from the turbulent Civil War era. Any collection of American ballads would be incomplete without some settings on the beautiful melodies penned by Stephen Foster. A number of those are included herein as guitar solos. All solos are presented in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to an online audio.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Beautiful American Airs and Ballads written by William Bay and published by William Bay Music. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of 25 lyrical North American melodies scored for guitar solo. Some of the solos have historical themes and some are from the turbulent Civil War era. Any collection of American ballads would be incomplete without some settings on the beautiful melodies penned by Stephen Foster. A number of those are included herein as guitar solos. All solos are presented in notation and tablature. This book includes access to an online audio recording of each solo.
Download or read book Fingerstyle Guitar Tunes Beautiful American Airs Ballads written by Raymond Gonzalez and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents 22 lyrical American tunes including traditional 19th century songs, melodies from the WWII era, and modern-day pieces by William Bay, president of Mel Bay Publications. Whether it’s a Civil War ballad or a jazz inspired tone poem, Raymond Gonzalez has a gift for creating unique settings that occasionally blend harmonics with normally fretted notes and open strings. The end result is a flowing melody/chord/bass arrangement that is challenging but accessible to the intermediate guitarist. All of the notation and tab settings in this book appear in standard or dropped-D tuning and are suitable for both steel and nylon-string guitar performance. To keep page clutter to a minimum, the reader is referred to the tablature for string, fret, and harmonic locations. Includes access to online audio of every tune recorded by the author.
Download or read book Banjo Picking Tunes Beautiful American Airs Ballads written by Lluis Gomez and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This solo collection presents 19 iconic melodies from the American traditional song book plus 6 modern original compositions by William Bay, president of Mel Bay Publications; all selections have been arranged in tablature for the 5-string banjo in gDGBD tuning by Catalonian multi-instrumentalist and bluegrass specialist, Lluís Gómez. Any collection of American ballads would be incomplete without settings of the beautiful melodies penned by Stephen Foster, several of which appear here including Beautiful Dreamer, Darling Nellie Gray, I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, and Hard Times, Come Again No More. Some of these tunes are arranged in uncommon banjo keys, all without retuning the banjo or using a capo. These keys may be challenging at first but will teach you a lot about the banjo fretboard. The author’s generous preface offers tips on practice, performance and interpretation rarely found in tablature collections such as these, but this book has it all, including online recordings of each arrangement.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Classical Gems written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guitar Picking Tunes - Classical Gems contains guitar arrangements by Mel Bay, Ray Bell, Mike Christiansen, and William Bay of 36 of the most beautiful melodies ever written. Featured are composers such as J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Tárrega, Sor, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Debussy and more. The works span the musical eras from the Renaissance through late Impressionism. All the pieces are presented in notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Classics for Flatpicking Guitar written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of classical pieces arranged for flatpicking guitar, together with a few modern flatpicking originals in the classical style by William Bay. Includes works byJ.S. Bach, Dowland, Handel, Krieger, Mouret, Playford, Praetorius, Quantz, Rameau, Sanz, and St. Jacome, as well as music by a couple of anonymous Renaissance lutenists-21 pieces in all. All selections appear in standard notation and tablature with fingering and suggested guitar chords when appropriate. The online recording includes all of the selections in the book
Download or read book American Folk Songs for Guitar written by David Nadal and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specially transcribed and arranged for beginning and intermediate guitar players, this anthology of 49 classics includes such perennial favorites as Beautiful Dreamer, Amazing Grace, Aura Lee, On Top of Old Smoky, Blue Tail Fly, Camptown Races, Dixie's Land, Yankee Doodle, Sweet Betsy from Pike, John Henry, and many more.
Download or read book Classical Guitar Tunes O Carolan Airs written by Guido Boger and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O’Carolan Airs features further arrangements of the complete repertoire of Irish harpist Turlough O’Carolan. The solo pieces are generally intermediate in difficulty, and convey the beautiful, lyrical qualities of the original tunes. This book is a follow-up to Guido Böger’s Turlough O'Carolan Irish Harp Pieces for Classical Guitar and O’Carolan Favorites for Classical Guitar. It contains 61 arrangements written in standard notation, ideal for practice, concerts or recreation.
Download or read book First Lessons Classical Guitar written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-18 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book and accompanying online audio are a great introduction to the world ofclassical guitar. The user friendly method is ideal for self instruction or for use with a teacher. The book contains many great sounding pieces playable by the beginning student. This method will get you playing fun music right from the start.
Download or read book Airs and Ballads for Classic Guitar written by John Lehmann-Hapt and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dozen of the most beautiful traditional melodies from the British Isles and North America are arranged here as concert pieces, with rich harmonies and variations. Carefully voiced and fingered for fluidity and effectiveness, the collection offers a wide range of style and expression. “Barbara Allen” and “The Three Ravens” are strongly influenced by the Elizabethan lute tradition, while “John Riley” and “Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies” have a more contemporary feel. “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” and “Lament for Owen Roe O’Neill” are studies in somber intensity, the modal “She Moved Through the Fair” sounds the ancient connection between Arabic and Celtic music, and “Banks of the Ohio” provides an interlude of gentle bluegrass swing, with a hint of gospel.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Old Time Music Gems written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 19 flatpicking solos in the beautiful and rousing old-time style, reflecting the spirit of late 19th and early 20th century rural America. Written in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Songs of Faith written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one guitar solos on beautiful hymns and some new Christian gems. All arrangements are in notation and tablature and give the pick-style player a wealth of wonderful, inspiring music to play in church, concert or in other appropriate settings. Includes access to an online audio.
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Sacred Songs of Early America written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty guitar solos for the plectrum or flatpick guitarist drawn from the early American shape-note tradition. These songs reflect the rugged faith of America’s early settlers and range from joyous, rhythmic pieces to somber, contemplative melodies. The arrangements are of medium difficulty and present a broad palate of harmonic colors. Written in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio, recorded by the author.
Download or read book American Folk Songs for the Classical Guitar written by Graham Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 25 songs cover an amazing hundred years of American history and reflect the struggles, loves, laughs, tragedies, trials and, on occasion, prejudices of a huge number of Americans. Over the years, these tunes have been the inspiration behind much of the contemporary popular music in advertising, film, folk song, blues, jazz and rock. The guitar was a popular instrument in the nineteenth century and was played across America with many forms of popular music. Its comparative rugged simplicity meant it could be carried on a mule, a horse or a wagon, accompanying prospectors, cowboys, gamblers, soldiers and many others. Until the arrival of the mechanical player-pianos and piano rolls in the 1890s, and for long after that in most situations, all music had been live. Whenever a group of people gathered of an evening to put their feet up, along a cattle trail, in a mining camp or frontier saloon - there was a guitar. When I was learning the guitar there was a great shortage of easy guitar arrangements of popular tunes and, whilst not for the beginner, it is hoped that this collection of guitar solos can be played, after a little practice, by guitarists with a reasonable level of skill. The songs have endured, not because of their greatness but because of their popularity with those masses of working people who sung and heard them. Perhaps, to paraphrase Carl Sandburg, a great collector of American songs, they should be "...overheard, rather than heard."
Download or read book Guitar Picking Tunes Hymns of Beauty and Strength written by William Bay and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book in the Guitar Picking Tunes series presents 29 favorite hymns arranged for guitar solo. The material spans the centuries, but reflects a deep faith, including lyrically-beautiful hymns such as “Just as I Am”, to the powerful “Crown Him with Many Crowns”. These solos work well as preludes, offertories, communion hymns and even recessionals, or simply for enjoyment. All solos are written in standard notation and tablature. Includes access to online audio.
Download or read book Contemporary Guitar Composers of the Americas written by Gullermo Diego and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Guitar Composers of the Americas is a unique collection of 51 solo works representing 17 composers from the American continents. This anthology addresses continental guitar music; music from North, Central and South America. It features many composers who have helped to enrich its repertoire, giving rise to a diverse palette of styles, textures, rhythms, moods and melodies. A worthwhile addition to the library of any classical guitarist.
