Orchestral Excerpts for Timpani contains authentic parts for 57 of the most-requested audition excerpts for timpani. The enclosed 78-track audio CD includes these excerpts played by major orchestras, plus 21 play-along practice tracks. This unequalled collection is enriched by comments and performance suggestions by Randy Max, timpanist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic, who also offers detailed tuning plans, advice for practicing timpani and ear training, and historical information. This unique book with audio provides indispensable audition preparation material for timpanists of all levels, from student to professional.

Theodore Presser Company 414-41194 • $39.95  Add to Cart

Matanya Ophee has reworked an 1832 translation of Fernando Sor’s Method for Guitar to reflect more accurately the pedagogical thought of the original text. This edition contains not only discussions of the parts of the guitar and proper position with original artwork, but uses musical excerpts to demonstrate exercises in technique. A true gem from the past that proves to be just as useful and helpful to classical guitarists today as it was during the nineteenth century.

Editions Orphée
494-02839 - $29.95  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...

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This piece for classical guitar by nineteenth century Spanish composer François de Fossa is one of many found in the library of the conservatory Jacinto Guerrero in Toledo, Spain. The theme used for the variations in this work is the French folk song Aussitôt que la lumière, popular in the first half of the nineteenth century. For advanced players.

Editions Orphée 494-02837 • $9.95  Add to Cart

Dirait-on is the final movement in Morten Lauridsen’s choral cycle, Les Chansons des Roses, based on poems by Rainer Maria Rilke. Dirait-on is written in the style of a French folk song and its popularity inspired Scott Tennant of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet to ask for a guitar arrangement. A recording of this arrangement is available separately on the quartet’s album Air and Ground (Sony Classical SNYC 89100). For advanced players.

Peermusic Classical 62376-573 • $19.95  Add to Cart

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)

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)

Jan de Kloe of Editions Orphée has done a great service to the world of guitar historians by publishing this index to Domingo Prat’s exhaustive Diccionario de Guitarristas (497-00309, once again available in limited quantity), a large volume that covers South American guitar music, Argentine guitar music, Spanish guitar music, the contemporary guitar, and guitar history. While the dictionary contains a few alphabetical keywords, this index has about 9,000 persons in 21,000 references, providing listings for individuals, geographical names, venues, organizations, orchestras, groups, music societies, publishers, magazines, newspapers, and more.

Editions Orphée 494-02835 • $29.95  Add to Cart

This volume is a collection of exercises, lessons and etudes extracted from the second edition of Spanish classical guitarist and composer Dionisio Aguado’s Escuela of 1826. Stripping all text from this guitar method creates a progressively graduated system of teaching which is similar in its construction to Bartók’s Mikrokosmos, in that it provides teachers with good teaching material, rather than instilling a method of a teaching. As a result, it is useful in any program of guitar education, regardless of the teacher’s approach to pedagogy or his/her attachment to any particular philosophy or method book. For all guitarists, beginner to advanced!

Editions Orphée 494-02838 • $19.95  Add to Cart

From the prolific John W. Duarte comes a new showcase for advancing guitarists. Three short movements (Vals, Cancion de cuna, Gato) feature challenging dynamics and percussive techniques, inspired by the folk dances of Venezuela. Fresh, new recital material for advanced performers. See a page.

Tuscany Publications 494-02524 • $7.50  Add to Cart

This is an album of pieces for the Baroque guitar, penned in the 17th century by guitar composer and teacher Gaspar Sanz. As the sound of the Baroque guitar is quite different from the modern classical guitar, this edition makes an effort to retain and transfer the musical idiom of the guitarra española (as the Baroque guitar was known in its day), through the use of techniques such as the campanela and the use of ties. The comprehensive fingering is itneded to help players achieve as authentic a sound as possible. The fingering has been positioned vertically so that the notation is easy to read and is text-centered. For advanced players.

Universal Edition UE034486 • $17.95  Add to Cart

The second installment of this collection from Berben contains both transcriptions of Bach’s preludes and fugues from “The Well-Tempered Clavier” and original performance works for two guitars created by classical guitar masters Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya. French master classical guitarist Frédéric Zigante has carefully translated and adapted the original manuscripts of Presti and Lagoya for modern use, while remaining faithful to the stylistic decisions and marking made by the arrangers. This edition contains two separate guitar parts and a score, with exhaustive references and a thorough foreword. For advanced players.

Edizioni Bérben 564-02900 • $73.95  Add to Cart

Edizioni Berben has released another installment in The Presti-Lagoya Collection, carried out with the approval of Ida Presti’s and Alexandre Lagoya’s heirs and based on manuscripts used by the duo for concerts in the 1950s and 1960s. As Lagoya wrote them out without ever intending to publish them, these new editions correct discrepancies between the music and performance recordigs to make these arrangements playable by any guitarist wishing to perform them. Most fingerings are left up to interpretation, as the original manuscripts contained few, and instead are meant to be chosen according to the tone color desired by the guitarist. Volume 3 coveres Bach's English Suites Nos. 2 and 3 and French Suite No. 5. For advanced players.

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Francis Cruz Cordero’s Six Divertissements are an excellent example of the transition between the Romantic and Classical periods as addressed by guitar players and composers of the time, in that they give way to lovely romantic impulses and adhere to some conservative structures at the same time. This is the first time these pieces have been made available since the mid-nineteenth century, and will prove to be an important addition to classical guitar repertoire. For advanced players.

Editions Orphée 494-02831 • $5.95  Add to Cart

A challenging example of the best of the Baroque guitar repertoire is this operatic and flourishing solo from de Murcia. In updating the Suite for the modern instrument, the editors have kept as closely to the original as possible, with extra attention paid to the "Campanella runs," which echo the sounds of bells or harp. For advanced guitarists.

Universal Edition UE034481 • $16.95  Add to Cart

The editors turn here to an extract from de Visée's 1686 publication Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre. Here, as well, many obstacles were overcome, from the "unorthodox tuning of the Baroque guitar," to the translation of sounds and gestures. The ten movements are presented in large, clear notation with critical notes for each. For advanced guitarists.

Universal Edition UE034480 • $16.95  Add to Cart

British guitarist and composer Stephen Goss gives us a set of miniatures for guitar quartet and narrator, evoking characters and scenes from Dylan Thomas’ play for voices, Under Milk Wood. Commissioned by the Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain for the Tetra Guitar Quartet, Under Milk Wood Variations was premiered at St. John’s, Smith Square, London in February of 1990. For advanced players.

Editions Orphée 494-02836 • $29.95  Add to Cart

19th-century Italian guitar composer wrote these variations on a popular opera of that time, La Gloire et l’Amour by François-Adrien Boieldieu, which premiered in Paris in 1816. Giuliani is said to have been inspired to compose this variation after attending the Viennese premiere of the opera in 1818. While appearing simple, the Romance theme is preceded by his weighty and almost dramatic short introduction in the key of C minor. For advanced players.

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Written for Elizabeth Hainen and the Juilliard String Quartet, with a dedication to the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Wagner's Pan Journal is enjoying a July performance at Monadnock Music Festival, as part of their Chamber Music Masterpieces series. Dur.: 12'. For advanced performers. See sample pages here as PDF.

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Available in one book for the first time, this collection features 20 short musical images by Carlos Salzedo, pioneer of modern harp music, requiring no pedal changes and playable either on a modern concert harp or Irish harp. Also available in the original separate First Series (464-00032) and Second Series (464-00033). For beginning players.

Elkan-Vogel 464-00053 • $12.95  Add to Cart

Esteemed French publisher Billaudot presents Volume 1 of its series of transcriptions of Bach’s 6 Suites, originally written for unaccompanied solo cello. Suites 1 and 2, contained in this volume, were edited by master harpist Anne Ricquebourg and transcribed by Sabine Chefson. They honor the original melodic structure of the cello composition but a few bass notes have been added for extra richness, and are transposed up one octave, as the original octave is too low for harp. For the intermediate player.

Billaudot 574-00792 • $18.95  Add to Cart

Billaudot releases the second installment of Bach unaccompanied suites for cello, arranged and transcribed for the harp*. As the original text is too low for harp, these suites have been transposed up by one octave, and a few bass notes have been added to give the pieces more body. For advanced players. Duration: 41’

Billaudot 574-00811 • $25.95  Add to Cart

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Originally written for two pianos and then transcribed for band, popular composer Chen Yi’s successful China West Suite is now available for marimba and piano. Commissioned by Ithaca College professor Jeffery Meyer, China West Suite is a perfect recital piece that explores a variety of folk songs from the China West region in four movements, each named for a different group of people. Marimba players will appreciate this significant new addition to their instrument’s catalog from one of the world’s leading composers. For the advanced player. Duration: 13’

Theodore Presser Company 114-41346 • $19.95  Add to Cart

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!

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