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Agustin Barrios
Doce Piezas para Guitarra
Edited with fingerings by César Amaro
Guitar solo

Tuscany Publications 494-02700 • $29.95  Add to Cart

CONTENTS
Notes on the Music
Las Abejas (1921) • Canción maternal (Habanera) (1924) • La Catedral (Dístico sacro) (1921)
Grana de arena (1925) • Romance de la india muerta (1927) • Leyenda guaraní (1912)
Luisito (Minuetto) (1925) • Madrecita!... (Minuetto) (1925) • Vals de primavera (1921)
Vidalita con variaciones (1925) • Rancho quemada (Estilo) (1925) • Souvenir d'un rêve (1919)

Background

Barrios published almost nothing in his lifetime, and he left few manuscripts, but he was a pioneer of recording. Virtually all of the modern published editions of his music (and the recordings that were made from them) are based on transcriptions from his extant recordings. But early recording technology sometimes required that a piece be played over and over again in order to make a run of several hundred pressings. This is why the music on one recording sometimes differs noticeably from another, even though both have identical labels and dates. The performer simply played the same piece differently in the morning than he did in the afternoon — changing tempo, improvising, embellishing. The result is a profusion of confusing variants and conflicting editions.

This new edition from Tuscany Publications is based on a rare group of autograph manuscripts from 1912-1927, with the composer's own fingering, that the Uruguayan guitarist and Barrios scholar César Amaro has collected. It contains some of the earliest and most authoritative versions of several of the composer's best loved pieces, including La Catedral and Primavera Vals, but it also contains a number of rare pieces (several of which are not in the "complete works"), including the heretofore lost four-movement masterpiece Leyenda Guaraní, which survives only in a unique manuscript carefully copied by a disciple.

This edition should be essential to every guitarist who wishes to see what Barrios was thinking when he wrote these pieces, and wishes to understand his complex approach to performing them. And those who have purchased the "complete works" need this volume to make their collection truly complete. (Richard M. Long, publisher)

Volume Ten, like the previous books in the Russian Collection series, is intended to serve as a general introduction to Russian seven-string guitar music, including concert repertoire, transcriptions, themes and variations, fantasias, and more. Suitable for players using standard guitars as well, this volume includes the original seven-string versions as well as a few works printed here for the first time in the West. (The six-string guitar is tuned in fourths, while the Russian seven-string guitar is tuned in thirds). Most six-string guitar players acclimate quickly to playing in this tuning and are able to read the music without the aid of tablature. However, for newcomers, this edition is equipped with a generous layer of fingering.

Editions Orphee 494-02824 • $19.95  Add to Cart

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Chen Yi
The Points
for Pipa solo (Dur.: 11 min.)

Watch a fascinating performance by Yu Jia on YouTube...

Presser Custom Print 114-40946 • $15.95  Add to Cart

Another lost treasure has been brought back to life, through its discovery by Stefan Hackl amid the Karl Scheit collection of guitar works. Hackl provides an excellent overview of the composer, the work, and the musical world of performance guitar at the time.

Editions Orphée 494-02809 • $9.95  Add to Cart

Luigi Legnani
Andante & Allegro from the Overture to William Tell by Rossini
for solo Guitar

Legnani, an unparallelled guitarist of his time, was known to have created some 250 compositions and arrangements. Of the relative handful surviving in print today, this Andante & Allegro remains a favorite, an arrangement of the familiar passages from Rossini's last and best-known opera.

Editions Orphée 494-02810 • $8.95  Add to Cart

Winner of the 2007 JoAnn Falletta International Composition Competition for Guitar, Asiana V is described by the composer as "part of a cycle called Asiana, which consists of five solo guitar pieces written in a similar style. As the title suggests, there are some elements of Asian music, recognizable in the use of the pentatonic scale, but it is actually a fusion of a few styles: neo-classical, neo-romantic, and jazz. Except for a lyrical part, the piece is dynamic, effective, with a lot of strong accents, especially on chords. The harmony is tonal. This piece requires a good technique, a powerful sound, and a disciplined use of articulation." A unique and colorful work from this prolific Serbian composer. For advanced classical guitar players.

Editions Orphée 494-02825 • $6.95  Add to Cart

World-class guitarist Wolfgang Lendle looked upon the famous Paganini Grand Sonata for guitar and violin and envisioned a wholly-new guitar concerto. Read his thoughts and analysis in orchestrating a full string accompaniment to the original solo guitar part, then rejoice in the addition of a Paganini concerto to the comparable standard repertoire! Handsomely published by Editions Orphée, the new Concerto is packaged as a set of full score and (1) each of the string parts, with a separately available solo guitar part with rehearsal CD. Lendle’s changes to the guitar solo part are few, detailed neatly in his introduction, and the string parts are simple enough for student string orchestra or string quartet. Includes several cadenzas, offered in the spirit of the composer and the work.

Editions Orphée
Orchestra Score and String Parts: 494-02802 • $39.95  Add to Cart
Solo Guitar part and rehearsal CD: 494-02803 • $24.95  Add to Cart

“Written in a form largely inspired by Paddy Maloney of the Chieftains,” Da Chara weaves Krouse’s original melodies through the two instruments. “The original air returns as a march, which gradually picks up energy until it bubbles over into a wild reel.” Krouse aims here for a traditional Irish sound, and captures it through his own unique prism.

Peermusic Classical 62058-781 • $17.95  Add to Cart

Early Romantic Lieder with Guitar
Compiled and Edited by John McCormick
for Voice and Guitar

McCormick digs into the early 19th century series of music journals, Arion, to bring to light some of the finest examples of this art form. Choosing only the German composers, he offers an excellent comparison with the better-known composers in this genre ((Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, etc.) by showing their immediate predecessors in the field. A handsome volume, complete with brief descriptive biographies of the composers.

Editions Orphée 491-00616 • $29.95  Add to Cart
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Mikhail Polupayenko
Fantasia on Zaporozhye Themes
for solo Guitar

The seventh entry in Editions Orphée’s ongoing series, The Guitarist’s Repertoire, brings to light this concert-level showcase for accomplished guitarists. Written at the turn of the last century, this pleasing and light-hearted work is built upon Cossack themes, and calls upon a good range of the guitarist’s skills. Edited for the six-string guitar, but playable on a multi-string model with additional basses. See page 1.

Editions Orphée 494-02800 • $5.95  Add to Cart

Ophee has chosen this little-known concert piece, originally written for the Viennese 10-string guitar, as his fourth entry in The Guitarist's Repertoire. A challenging set of Hungarian motifs, perhaps chief among them the Rákóczi March (a version which [Ophee suggests] may have led to the adaptations of Berlioz and Liszt). Ophee's background information and his enumeration of modifications for performance on the 6-string guitar are priceless, and his editing, as usual, exact.

Editions Orphée 494-02797 • $9.95 Add to Cart

Another rare find from the world of Soviet-era music! Ophee thoroughly discusses the composer, the backdrop, and the work here presented in another handsome Orphée edition.

Editions Orphée 494-02730 • $19.95  Add to Cart

Richard Graf (ed.)
Guitar for Two, Volume 3
for Two Guitars with Audio CD

Along with original duets, Graf includes the Harry Lime Theme, a Satie Gymnopedie, and his arrangement of the Eric Clapton heavyweight, Tears in Heaven. Also includes a CD recording for listening and play-along.

Universal Edition UE33337 • $26.95  Add to Cart

One of the most celebrated melodies of the "Belle Epoque" becomes Ophee's second entry in The Guitarist's Repertoire. Using an 1891 arrangement by Jaime Bosch, Ophee adds the missing dynamics and articulations, and completes the work by including the missing opening measures.

Editions Orphée 494-02795 • $2.95 Add to Cart

Ophee investigates the claim that de Fossa fathered the modern system of artifical harmonics for the guitar with fascinating results. A wonderful historical overview of this debate is included, along with performance notes for “those...who are not accustomed to reading 19th century notation.” (Ophee) This beautiful guitar duo is presented in facsimile of its original edition from Meissonier c.1821.

Editions Orphée 494-02132 • $14.95 Add to Cart

A solo classical guitar piece composed by Honduras-born Carlos Barrientos (b.1954) inspired by the most American of musical styles—the blues. Periwinkle Memories, a lightly swinging piece marked by delicate changes in tempo and touch. In explaining the name of the piece, the composer says, “I was struck by the purplish-hue of the periwinkle… some consider it an invasive weed, most admire its extraordinary beauty…it is a vibrant part of the American landscape, elegant, stubborn, and nearly native. Like the blues.” For the advanced player. Duration: 8' 30"

Editions Orphee 494-02805 • $7.95  Add to Cart

Delpriora is an artist, a composer, and a teacher, who has gained recognition and garnered awards throughout his career. His recent Tango Caffé Carciofo from Orphée has been well received by the guitar performance community, and his works have been issued by several other publishers, as well. The Pocket Sonata was written just after his Sonata No. 3, a major work of some 50 minutes in length! In stark contrast, the Pocket Sonata is designed to fit comfortably in any progam.

Editions Orphée 494-02727 • $8.95  Add to Cart

Ferdinando Carulli
Raccolta di sonate diversi
for solo Guitar

10 short Carulli originals, taken from a manuscript belonging to a dedicated amateur of his time. See incipits here (www.orphee.com).

Editions Orphée 494-02821 • $12.95  Add to Cart

Bogdanovic is a “richly gifted composer, improviser, and guitarist,” says Ophee, whose passion has led to the publication of his fundamental Polyrhythmic and Polymetric Studies for guitar (Edizioni Bérben). His achievements in the guitar world cannot be overstated. In the exploration of his own unique music language, Bogdanovic was drawn to the Solomon Canticle of Canticles, producing this misterioso e appassionato setting of the title in an intricate interweaving between guitar and voice. Text is provided both in English and traditional Hebrew.

Editions Orphée 494-02729 • $8.95 Add to Cart

Editions Orphée here releases six excellent examples of de Fossa's penchant for transforming chamber works into guitar duos. While the source material, Enrique Ataide y Portugal's string quartets, may be virtually unknown, the de Fossa duo transcriptions should be embraced by the classical guitar world as important "new" entries to the repertoire.

Editions Orphée
Book 1 (Duos I-III): 494-02806 • $19.95  Add to Cart
Book 2 (Duos IV-VI): 494-02807 • $22.95  Add to Cart

Tony Oppenheim
SLAP IT! Funk Studies for the Electric Bass
Bass Guitar Method

Re-released in 2006 in an upgraded 25th Anniversary edition, with more exercises, more tracks, and a handsome new cover! This is the same SLAP IT! that has become a must-have for bassists, only better.

Presser 414-41138 • $19.95  Add to Cart

With the Carulli, Ophee launches his new series The Guitarist's Repertoire, a collection of works from the 19 th and early 20 th centuries that he describes as "off-the-beaten-track." With the Solo and Variations, Ophee introduces us to a Carulli that we may not know - the virtuosic guitar composer, and a working of the very familiar Nel cor più set apart from its contemporaries (Sor, Giuliani) by Carulli's extensive solo introduction (and several other elements, as discussed by Ophee). The result is an excellent choice to open The Guitarist's Repertoire series and one worthy of the attention of classical guitarists everywhere.

Editions Orphée 494-02794 • $9.95 Add to Cart

Although not a guitarist, himself, Dodgson is universally recognized as having great understanding of the instrument and its capacities. (Score and Parts)

Editions Orphée 494-02728 • $24.95  Add to Cart

As described by editor Matanya Ophee: "Since they first came to light in 1987, the Ten Etudes by Giulio Regondi (1822–1872) have become an integral part of the guitar repertoire all over the world. Their undisputed value was, and still is, not only their unique artistic excellence as paragons of a compositional inspiration seldom seen in guitar music of the nineteenth century, but also their function as didactic material in many teaching programs, both private and public. The present edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect a clearer picture of the harmony and a better depiction of the actual durations of the notes of the several voices. At the same time, a new layer of editorial fingering has been added, mainly to provide students and amateurs with easier access to this music." Complete with historical and performance notes. For intermediate to advanced players.

Editions Orphée 494-02826 • $17.95  Add to Cart

A charming operatic melody became a popular "hit" in the 19th century, and was used here as a theme and variations for solo guitar. Ciebra's Theme and Allegro is an excellent program piece for advanced students and professionals.

Editions Orphée 494-02793 • $7.95 Add to Cart

Ponce's classic set of folk songs and dances for piano is faithfully transcribed for two guitars. Includes favorites, such as La Cucaracha and Cielito Lindo, plus many more that may be new to you. (Set of two scores.)

Peermusic Classical 62157-573 - $27.95 Add to Cart

Found at the end of Molino's Grande Méthode Complette, Op. 46, the eight variations "are an excellent bridge between the class room and the concert stage." (Ophee) Molino uses the traditional French song, dating back to the time of King Henry IV, for his variations, and Ophee has chosen the result as the third entry in The Guitarist's Repertoire.

Editions Orphée 494-02796 • $6.95 Add to Cart

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Several individual pieces from this beloved Debussy work have been transcribed for a wide variety of instrumentation, including for flute and harp. Lambert and Lee present the complete Children's Corner, under one cover, for this instrumental pairing. The delicacy, the dynamics, the joy and humor of Debussy's signature piano book translate effectively in this well-planned edition.

Henry Lemoine 524-04475 • $32.95 Add to Cart

Download our 2007 Catalog of PERCUSSION music.
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Peter Schickele answered a commission by Woodstock Chimes with this second Sonata in two movements. Scored for five percussionists, the Sonata No. 2 focuses primarily upon the mallet instruments, using somewhat unusual techniques, and incorporates a beautiful section using four different wind chimes (Woodstock Chimes, of course). Premiered at the 6th annual Woodstock Guild concert in Aspen, Sonata No. 2 has been recorded by the Nexus Percussion Ensemble on the CD Drumtalker (Nexus label).

Elkan-Vogel 164-00263 • $24.95 Add to Cart

Johann Pachelbel
Pachelbel Canon
for Marimba (or Vibraphone or Bells) and Piano
arranged by Daniel Dorff

Presser now has over 40 arrangements of the Canon for various instrumental solos and ensembles, and now brings the keyboard percussionists into the mix!

Presser 114-41299 - $4.95  Add to Cart