Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1442833

Composed by Catharina Josepha Sidney Pratten Edited by Keith Terrett. Arranged by Keith Terrett. 19th Century,Classical,Contest,Festival,Instructional,Romantic Period. Score. 7 pages. Keith Terrett #1022769. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1442833).

Catharina Josepha Pratten (15 November 1824 – 10 October 1895) was a German guitar virtuoso, composer, and teacher, also known as Madame Sidney Pratten. A legendary composer, virtuosa, editor and teacher ( among her pupils were the daughters of Queen Victoria!), she was born in Cologne/ Germany as Catharina Josepha Pelzer in 1824, toured as child prodigy with Giulio Regondi, married flutist and composer Robert Pratten and lived then until her death in 1895 in London.

She was born Catharina Josepha Pelzer in Mülheim on 15 November 1824,[1] the daughter of the German guitarist and music teacher Ferdinand Pelzer. Her family moved to England in 1829.  On 24 September 1854, she married the English flautist Robert Sidney Pratten.

Catharina began touring in Europe from the age of eight, and by 1844 was well known in England as a composer and guitar teacher. She soon established her school - Madame Sidney Pratten's Guitar School - and published tutorials, including Guitar School: a Book of Methods (1859) and Learning the Guitar: Simplified (1874), which advocated the use of alternative tuning in E major. Her pupils included Queen Victoria’s daughters Louise, Princess of Wales and Beatrice, and the actor, singer, guitarist, and composer Ernest Shand.

She composed some 250 works, most of them for solo guitar or voice and guitar. Heike Matthiesen has recorded some of the guitar pieces, including the variations on Carnaval de Venise, the two Fairy Sketches, and the Serenade.

Her residence in London was 22 Dorset Street, Portman Square, where she lived after the death of her husband in 1868, and where she died on 10 October 1895. Her sister, Giulia Pelzer (also a teacher), continued to run the guitar school after Catharina’s death. Catharina is buried at Brompton Cemetery, London.[

She owned many guitars herself and selected others for her pupils, often with her label inside. One - in splendid condition - was advertised for sale in The Times in 1939.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1440991

By Keith Terrett. By Francisco de Asís Tárrega Eixea (21 November 1852 – 15 December 1909). Arranged by Keith Terrett. 20th Century,Classical,Contest,Festival,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Score. 3 pages. Keith Terrett #1020970. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1440991).

Lágrima (Teardrop) is a romantic prelude for solo guitar by Spanish guitarist Francisco Tárrega. It is one of the best-known original compositions by Tárrega. It has been published by Ildefonso Alier.

Analysis:

Lágrima is a very short miniature consisting of only 16 bars. It takes around 2 minutes to perform and its tempo marking is andante. It has an A-B-A structure, section A being in E major and B in E minor, and has been overwhelmingly highlighted by critics because of its simplicity and melancholic atmosphere. Each section has 8 bars. Section A consists of a very simple and predictable melody with quarter notes and dotted half notes, while the accompaniment has eighth notes. Section B turns a little bit less predictable but otherwise still very simple, with eighth notes on the main voice. At the end of section B, section A is repeated to close the work.[ As usual in Tárrega's composition, Lágrima bears some technical difficulties in spite of its simplicity.

Composed between late 1891 and early 1892, it is one of Tárrega's most performed pieces. Lágrima has not been included in a definitive catalogue of his works. It has been, however, included in other collections of pieces and has been numbered depending on the position in those collections or in recordings.

Musical style:

Tárrega composed music in the romantic style of 19th-century European masters. His conservatory training and familiarity with contemporary classical genres and techniques are apparent in his compositions and transcriptions; these are more sophisticated than those of Spanish guitarist-composers of the previous generation and his contemporaries, e.g., Magín Alegre, Tomás Damas, Julián Arcas, José Viñas, and José Ferrer.

A virtuoso on his instrument, he was known as the Sarasate of the guitar, although Tárrega preferred small intimate performances over the concert stage.

Tárrega is considered to have laid the foundations for 20th-century classical guitar and for increasing interest in the guitar as a recital instrument.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1215723

Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Guillermo J. Romano. Chamber,Classical,Opera. Score. 4 pages. Guillermo josé romano #812452. Published by guillermo josé romano (A0.1215723).

Recitativo y aria, versión para guitarra y voz.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1397706

By Ernesto De Curtis. By Ernesto De Curtis. Arranged by Guillermo J. Romano. 20th Century,Chamber,Multicultural,Opera,Traditional,World. Score. 4 pages. Guillermo josé romano #980994. Published by guillermo josé romano (A0.1397706).

Adaptación de la famosa Canzonetta Napolitana para voz y guitarra (E mayor).

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Digital Download

SKU: HX.1399238

This edition: scorch. Jazz,Latin. Score. 4 pages. Hal Leonard - Digital #225763. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital (HX.1399238).

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.850202

Composed by Gypsy-Russian Folk Song. Arranged by Leah Ginzburg. Classical,Concert,Film/TV,Folk,Standards. Score. 4 pages. Leah Ginzburg #6601461. Published by Leah Ginzburg (A0.850202).

Gypsy-Russian song Two Guitars (Tsiganochka) - one of the most popular gypsy melodies. This music has been captivating hearts for many years. Piano version arranged by Leah Ginsburg

Small Ensemble Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1004795

Composed by Leslie Kleen. Contemporary. Score. 47 pages. Music From Riverside #4368516. Published by Music From Riverside (A0.1004795).

18 Songs from Chinese poets of the Yang period.  These poems have been set in English verse by Kenneth L. Patton.
They retain the simplicity of the original poems in Chinese and are on topics about Nature, Friendship, and Reflections on Life.
The guitar part requires a classical guitarist who is moderately advanced.  The voice part, however, is quite simple and in a fairly small range.   The style does not attempt to imitate Oriental music, but just a simplicity appropriate to the poems.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1151515

Composed by Philip Seward. 20th Century,Chamber,Contemporary,Religious. Score. 9 pages. Music Anon #751708. Published by Music Anon (A0.1151515).

These three songs celebrate music for singers and guitar. Premiered by the composer and classical guitarist, Norm Ruiz, in 2006, the songs draw on musical ideas presented in the psalms and in early music to create this contemporary setting.

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.784936

Composed by Dennis McCorkle, Adele Paxton. Children,Concert,Contemporary,New Age. Score. 7 pages. DF McCorkle Music and eBook Publications #6190031. Published by DF McCorkle Music and eBook Publications (A0.784936).

Key: G, Range F#3 to C5

The songs from The Walter de la Mare Songbook resulted from an invitation to perform at the first ever conference, Reading Walter de la Mare at Cambridge University, England, 2018. Composing 10 original songs, Adèle Paxton (Classical Soprano) and Dennis McCorkle (Jazz Guitarist) teamed up as the duo Mackie and Me to present their unique sound and song settings of the English poet.

Audience comments:

Brilliant and creative music…,

The depth of the poetry came right through…,

Blown away by the setting and musicality…,

Echoes of Lorenz Hart and Stephen Sondheim in the brilliant renderings…

All poetry of Walter de la Mare has been licensed worldwide by The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and the Society of Authors as their Representatives.

Additional titles available: Lucy’s Shoe (or ‘The Lost Shoe’), A Song of Enchantment, The Window, Grill Me Some Bones (or ‘At the Keyhole’), The Song of Shadows, Dust to Dust, Slim Sophia (or ‘Reverie’), Silver, The Bees’ Song, The Listeners

The Walter de la Mare Songbook Audio tracks and Ready-to-Sing performance ready backing tracks are available form SheetMusicPlus (see individual titles), Amazon Music, and Apple Music

Contact Information: DennisMcCorkle.com

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 5 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1396727

By Luciano Pavarotti. By Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, and Renato Simoni. Arranged by Juan Carlos Felix Cordova. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Opera. Score. 6 pages. Juan Carlos Felix Cordova #980068. Published by Juan Carlos Felix Cordova (A0.1396727).

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1280601

By David Warin Solomons. By David Warin Solomons. 20th Century,Christmas,Contemporary. Score. 3 pages. David Warin Solomons #872014. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1280601).

An Exmas Carol, for alto and classical guitar, was written on Christmas day 1984. It takes the melody of O Little Town of Bethlehem in the guitar part and the voice has its own tune lamenting the fact that we have ceased to hear or understand the message of the Christmas story.


Oh Lonely child of Bethlehem
How quiet you do lie
We cannot hear above the din
your message from the sky
And evening stars together sing the same old Christmas piece
But in our loves we're fast asleep
and strife will never cease

The kingdoms of this world pass on
and never shall return
but man forgets it's all in vain
we never seem to learn
And evening stars together sing the same old Christmas piece
But in our loves we stay asleep
and strife will never cease

Oh lonely Child, humanity!
How quiet, quiet, you do lie...

Note - a newer version with more advanced guitar technique is also available - it can be found through the sheetmusicplus search bar: 
search for An Exmas carol (alto and classical guitar).

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1448446

By Olivia Rodrigo. By Amy Allen, Daniel Nigro, and Olivia Rodrigo. Arranged by Bruna T. Pop,Singer/Songwriter. Score. 6 pages. Bruna T. #1028356. Published by Bruna T. (A0.1448446).

Scared of my guitar sheet music. Learn how to play Scared of my guitar by Olivia Rodrigo with this beautiful and easy piano, guitar and voice arrangement. Start today!

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1373988

Composed by David Warin Solomons. 21st Century,Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #958555. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1373988).

The pdf contains score and separate guitar part

Poem by Baudelaire (from Les Fleurs du mal). The guitar part contains many tremolo and harmonics effects.

Voici venir les temps où vibrant sur sa tige
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir;
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!
Chaque fleur s'évapore ainsi qu'un encensoir;
Le violon frémit comme un coeur qu'on afflige;
Valse mélancolique et langoureux vertige!
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir.
Le violon frémit comme un coeur qu'on afflige,
Un coeur tendre, qui hait le néant vaste et noir!
Le ciel est triste et beau comme un grand reposoir;
Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige.
Un coeur tendre, qui hait le néant vaste et noir,
Du passé lumineux recueille tout vestige!
Le soleil s'est noyé dans son sang qui se fige...
Ton souvenir en moi luit comme un ostensoir!

The hour approacheth, when, as their stems incline,
The flowers evaporate like an incense urn,
And sounds and scents in the vesper breezes turn;
A melancholy waltz — and a drowsiness divine.
The flowers evaporate like an incense urn,
The viol vibrates like the wailing of souls that repine.
A melancholy waltz — and a drowsiness divine,
The skies like a mosque are beautiful and stern.
The viol vibrates like the wailing of souls that repine;
Sweet souls that shrink from chaos vast and etern,
The skies like a mosque are beautiful and stern,
The sunset drowns within its blood-red brine.
Sweet souls that shrink from chaos vast and etern,
Essay the wreaths of their faded Past to entwine,
The sunset drowns within its blood-red brine,
Thy thought within me glows like an incense urn.
— Cyril Scott, Baudelaire: The Flowers of Evil (London: Elkin Mathews, 1909)

Guitar,Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1350419

By David Warin Solomons. By David Warin Solomons. Contemporary. Score. 8 pages. David Warin Solomons #935216. Published by David Warin Solomons (A0.1350419).

Three altos performing Shakespeare's chant of the three witches 
(from Macbeth), with a quasi-ostinato guitar accompaniment. 
The sound sample is a performance by the composer - multitracking.

It is suitable for a Shakespeare performance or, more generally, for a Halloween concert. 

Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd
    Thrice and once the hedgepig whin'd
    Harper cries: 'Tis time, 'tis time.
    Round about the cauldron go;
    In the poison'd entrails throw.
    Toad, that under cold stone
    Days and nights hast thirty one
    Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
    Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.


    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


    Fillet of a fenny snake,
    In the cauldron boil and bake;
    Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
    Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
    Lizard's leg, and howlet's wing,
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Like a hellbroth boil and bubble.


    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


    Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
    Witch's mummy, maw and gulf
    Of the ravin'd saltsea shark,
    Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark
    Liver of blasphemer too,
    Gall of goat, and slips of yew
    Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse,
    Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,
    Finger of birth-strangled babe
    Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
    Make the gruel thick and slab:
    Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
    For the ingredients of our cauldron.


    Double, double toil and trouble;
    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.


    Cool it with a baboon's blood,
    Then the charm is firm and good.

The pdf contains score and separate guitar part.