Solo Guitar - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.985329 Composed by Jeremiah Lawson. Contemporary. Individual part. 21 pages. Jeremiah Lawson #6063881. Published by Jeremiah Lawson (A0.985329). This guitar sonata is a four-movement work in open D tuning throughout.  The performance time is between 17 to 18 minutes.  I worked on this sonata from 2016 through 2019 as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson.  The movements are as follows.I. Andante (a fugue in triple counterpoint)II. ScherzoIII. Largo trionfante (a ragtime sonata whose recapitulation leads seamlessly into)IV. Variations on Restoration from William Walker's Southern HarmonyThe work is written in cumulative setting after the model of Charles Ives but in a Haydnesque homage to not just Blind Willie Johnson but also with musical tributes to Stevie Wonder, Bach (the triple counterpoint), Louis Armstrong and Lil Harden.  The fourth movement is a bravura set of variations on the shape note hymn Restoration that is the foundation of the entire sonata, using bottleneck technique throughout as an homage to Blind Willie Johnson.Owing to the use of bottleneck technique and the open D tuning throughout this is a pretty tough sonata to play but it's fun to play and I've filmed myself playing through it to demonstrate its practicality in performance. 

Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1013060 Composed by Christine Southworth. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 5 pages. Airplane Ears Music #5802099. Published by Airplane Ears Music (A0.1013060). How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat (2010, 3:20)two acoustic guitarsCommissioned by National Film Preservation Foundation for Treasures [from American Film Archives] V: The [American] West. How the Cowboy Makes His Lariat (1917) Production Company: Bray Studios Inc., for Paramount-Bray-Pictographs. Cast: Pedro León. Transfer Note: Copied at 20 frames per second from a 35mm print preserved by George Eastman House. New Music: Christine Southworth (score), Charles Whalen (guitar), Evan Ziporyn (whistling). Commentary: Donald W. Reeves. Running Time: 3 minutes. Featured in Treasures 5: The West, 1898-1938.About the ComposerChristine Southworth (b. 1978) is a composer and video artist based in Lexington, Massachusetts, dedicated to creating music born from a cross-pollination of sonic ideas. Inspired by intersections of technology and art, nature and machines, and musics from cultures around the world, her music employs sounds from man and nature, from Van de Graaff Generators to honeybees, Balinese gamelan to seismic data from volcanoes.  Website: www.kotekan.com