A Selected Survey of Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Adaptations for Guitar by Franciso Tárrega
Title | A Selected Survey of Transcriptions, Paraphrases, and Adaptations for Guitar by Franciso Tárrega PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Alexander |
Publisher | |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Composers |
ISBN |
The transcriptions of the nineteenth-century guitarist Francisco Tárrega exerted a significant influence on guitarists in the following generations. This document, intended as a reference guide and historical study for guitarists, surveys Tárrega’s transcriptions, paraphrases, and adaptations. A biography of Tárrega’s life is included, which demonstrates the importance of arrangements in his repertoire. Additionally, surveys of issues associated with the guitar and transcriptions during the nineteenth century, both of which were catalysts for Tárrega to create these works, are also included. These sections are followed by a comparative analysis between several original scores and their arrangements, in order to demonstrate Tárrega’s arranging style. A survey of the research involving Tárrega’s arrangements suggests that a study of this depth will be a valuable resource, as Tárrega’s tradition inspired many twentieth-century guitarists such as Andrés Segovia, Julian Bream, and Manuel Barrueco.
Pumping Nylon
Title | Pumping Nylon PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Tennant |
Publisher | Alfred Music Publishing |
Pages | 100 |
Release | 2002-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780739024034 |
World-class classical guitarist and well-respected educator Scott Tennant presents the most comprehensive technique handbook available for classical guitarists. This complete edition combines all three volumes of Scott's best-selling Pumping Nylon series. In addition to technical information not available elsewhere, it includes classic etudes by Carcassi, Giuliani, Sor, and Tarrega; musical examples by Bach, Turina, and Rodrigo; and original compositions by Andrew York and Brian Head. Learn easy to advanced repertoire pieces that are selected and designed to work with the various techniques addressed, including arpeggios, tremolo, scale velocity, and more. The included DVD features Scott Tennant, and the MP3 CD features the playing of Scott Tennant and Adam del Monte. --
CD Review Digest
Title | CD Review Digest PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Compact discs |
ISBN |
The guide to English language reviews of all music recorded on compact discs.
Isaac Albéniz
Title | Isaac Albéniz PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Aaron Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780199250523 |
Walter Aaron Clark here presents, for the first time in English, a detailed and accurate account of one of the most intriguing figures in the Romantic period. Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909), a renowned concert pianist, created a national style of Spanish piano music and also fostered the growth of the concerto, orchestral music, and opera in Spain. As a touring child prodigy who supposedly stowed away on a steamer to the New World, later studied with Liszt, and eventually got ensnared in a "Faustian pact" with the wealthy English librettist, Frances Burdett Money-Coutts, Albeniz has become somewhat of a legend. Based on a wealth of new and previously overlooked documentary evidence, this biography debunks the mythology surrounding his career, much of it spun by the composer himself.
Un Sueno en la Floresta
Title | Un Sueno en la Floresta PDF eBook |
Author | Agustín Barrios Mangoré |
Publisher | Alfred Music |
Pages | 16 |
Release | |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781457494895 |
A lovely haunting exercise in tremolo.
The Guitar in America
Title | The Guitar in America PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Noonan |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 1604733020 |
The Guitar in America offers a history of the instrument from America\'s late Victorian period to the Jazz Age. The narrative traces America\'s BMG (banjo, mandolin, and guitar) community, a late nineteenth-century musical and com-mercial movement dedicated to introducing these instru-ments into America\'s elite musical establishments. Using surviving BMG magazines, the author details an almost unknown history of the guitar during the movement\'s heyday, tracing the guitar\'s transformation from a refined parlor instrument to a mainstay in jazz and popular music. In the process, he not only introduces musicians (including numerous women guitarists) who led the movement, but also examines new techniques and instruments. Chapters consider the BMG movement\'s impact on jazz and popular music, the use of the guitar to promote attitudes towards women and minorities, and the challenges foreign guitarists such as Miguel Llobet and Andres Segovia presented to America\'s musicians. This volume opens a new chapter on the guitar in America, considering its cultivated past and documenting how banjoists and mandolinists aligned their instruments to it in an effort to raise social and cultural standing. At the same time, the book considers the BMG community within America\'s larger musical scene, examining its efforts as manifestations of this country\'s uneasy coupling of musical art and commerce. Jeffrey J. Noonan, associate professor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, has performed professionally on classical guitar, Renaissance lute, Baroque guitar, and theorbo for over twenty-five years. His articles have appeared in Soundboard and NYlon Review .
The Transcriber's Art
Title | The Transcriber's Art PDF eBook |
Author | RICHARD YATES |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2012-03-02 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1619111500 |
A collection of articles and music transcribed for solo classical guitar gathered from ten years of the popular series in the journal Soundboard. Each of the music scores is accompanied by an article describing the process of transcription for the guitar, the history of the music and composer, and performance suggestions. All pieces are fully fingered and suitable for intermediate to advanced players.