Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1070392 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Full Performance. Duration 264. Silver Sickle Publications #6103011. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.1070392). Scenes from the Life of Death is the solo version of Apostolos Paraskevas' Fourth Guitar Concerto, The Life Of Death.  A three-movement work which describes the life of Death.  In this highly dramatic and sometimes humorous work, the composer portrays Death in a human attitude via twists, turns, variations, technical challenges and surprises.  Death is a guitarist, a composer, and a disgruntled employee.  He complains all the time and wants to retire.  Death's only consolation is to go home to his soul mates, his friends, and with them perform his favorite pieces with them. I. Awakening of Mournful Feelings on Arrival at Work II. A Visit at the Playground, andIII. Sad and Ungrateful Feelings After the Visit - What A Life!   Put down your beloved instrument Mr. Reaper!  It's time to pay a visit to a fellow musician down the street as if he had all the time in the world!

Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1070391 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Full Performance. Duration 389. Silver Sickle Publications #6103007. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.1070391). Scenes from the Life of Death is the solo version of Apostolos Paraskevas' Fourth Guitar Concerto, The Life Of Death.  A three-movement work which describes the life of Death.  In this highly dramatic and sometimes humorous work, the composer portrays Death in a human attitude via twists, turns, variations, technical challenges and surprises.  Death is a guitarist, a composer, and a disgruntled employee.  He complains all the time and wants to retire.  Death's only consolation is to go home to his soul mates, his friends, and with them perform his favorite pieces with them. I. Awakening of Mournful Feelings on Arrival at Work II. A Visit at the Playground, andIII. Sad and Ungrateful Feelings After the Visit - What A Life!   Put down your beloved instrument Mr. Reaper!  It's time to pay a visit to a fellow musician down the street as if he had all the time in the world!

Solo Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.942098 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,Halloween,World. Individual part. 14 pages. Silver Sickle Publications #6212247. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.942098). Scenes from the Life of Death is the solo version of Apostolos Paraskevas' Fourth Guitar Concerto, The Life of Death.  A three-movement work which describes the life of Death.  In this highly dramatic and sometimes humorous work, the composer portrays Death in a human attitude via twists, turns, variations, technical challenges and surprises.  Death is a guitarist, a composer, and a disgruntled employee.  He complains all the time and wants to retire.  Death's only consolation is to go home to his soul mates, his friends, and with them perform his favorite pieces with them. I. Awakening of Mournful Feelings on Arrival at Work II. A Visit at the Playground, andIII. Sad and Ungrateful Feelings After the Visit - What A Life!   

Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1070390 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Full Performance. Duration 205. Silver Sickle Publications #6103009. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.1070390). Scenes from the Life of Death is the solo version of Apostolos Paraskevas' Fourth Guitar Concerto, The Life Of Death.  A three-movement work which describes the life of Death.  In this highly dramatic and sometimes humorous work, the composer portrays Death in a human attitude via twists, turns, variations, technical challenges and surprises.  Death is a guitarist, a composer, and a disgruntled employee.  He complains all the time and wants to retire.  Death's only consolation is to go home to his soul mates, his friends, and with them perform his favorite pieces with them. I. Awakening of Mournful Feelings on Arrival at Work II. A Visit at the Playground, andIII. Sad and Ungrateful Feelings After the Visit - What A Life!   Put down your beloved instrument Mr. Reaper!  It's time to pay a visit to a fellow musician down the street as if he had all the time in the world!

Guitar (fingerpicking) - Intermediate - Digital Download SKU: M0.30599EB Composed by Andrew Lardner. Adult Contemporary. Contemporary. E-book. Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music #30599EB. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music (M0.30599EB). ISBN 9781619117198. 8.75x11.75 inches.John Fahey transformed the world of acoustic flat-top steel-string guitar by bringing it to the concert stage as a respected, solo instrument. Blind Joe Death: Volume 1 looks at the important people and genres that shaped him as a composer. This volume focuses on Side 1 of the original 1967 Blind Joe Death LP, a collection of mostly traditional music that was adapted for solo guitar. Hints of Fahey's early influences endured throughout his career as a composer, yet early on, and in Blind Joe Death, a unique voice is coming into focus-one that is not afraid to explore the avant-garde with journeys into collage and expressionism. Six extensively edited solos from Blind Joe Death are included in Volume 1: On Doing an Evil Deed Blues, St. Louis Blues, Poor Boy a Long Ways from Home, Uncloudy Day, John Henry and In Christ There Is No East or West. Within these transcriptions, Andrew Lardner has provided admirers of John Fahey's body of work with the essential keys to launch their own journeys into replicating the sounds and style of Fahey's landmark solos from Blind Joe Death.

Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.806165 Composed by Public Domain. Arranged by Ellsworth McMeen. Celtic,Folk. Individual part. 3 pages. Ellsworth McMeen #4349865. Published by Ellsworth McMeen (A0.806165). Evocative fingerstyle guitar arrangement in Drop D (DADGBE) tuning by guitarist El McMeen of one of the most beautiful fiddle tunes, from iconic Scottish fiddler Niel Gow (1727-1807). El is included in the Digitaldreamdoor listing of the 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists. https://tinyurl.com/GreatestGuitaristsMany of El's recordings are described here: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/ElMcMeenThis tune (performed in CGDGAD tuning) is included on El's recording called Amazing Grace.

Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.806164 Composed by Public Domain. Arranged by Ellsworth McMeen. Celtic,Folk. Individual part. 5 pages. Ellsworth McMeen #4349849. Published by Ellsworth McMeen (A0.806164). Evocative fingerstyle guitar arrangement in CGDGAD tuning by guitarist El McMeen of one of the most beautiful fiddle tunes, from iconic Scottish fiddler Niel Gow (1727-1807). El is included in the Digitaldreamdoor listing of the 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists. https://tinyurl.com/GreatestGuitaristsMany of El's recordings are described here: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/ElMcMeenThis tune is included on El's recording called Amazing Grace.

Solo Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1436638 By Traditional. By Neil Gow. Arranged by Harrison Marsh. Celtic,Folk,Irish,Traditional. Individual part. 5 pages. Harrison Marsh #1016763. Published by Harrison Marsh (A0.1436638). A Traditional Irish lament arranged for solo fingerstyle guitar in dropped D tuning.

Solo Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025162 Composed by Ivan Periz. Contemporary. Individual part. 4 pages. Ivan Periz #4592617. Published by Ivan Periz (A0.1025162). Contemporary music for guitar solo.

Solo Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.942099 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,World. Individual part. 9 pages. Silver Sickle Publications #6227369. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.942099). Nadir (1994) is written for prepared guitar, a term usually associated with a piano in which certain objects have been placed on the strings in order to alter the conventional sound of the instrument. Many composers have written music for prepared piano, among them John Cage, who, according to Mr. Paraskevas, was the inspiration for his transferring of the same technique to the guitar. It is quite possible that nobody has used this kind of technique on the guitar before. After experimenting with various materials, he decided on the use of two metal paper clips, which he puts at specific locations on the fingerboard, so that they best produce the desired sound effect, a sound both harmonic and percussive. Nadir  suggests the lowest point, here associated with the notion of death. The piece bears many programmatic references to the struggle between good and evil, life and death, musically portrayed in the persistent ostinato rhythms and the fragmented melodic phrases. Death cuts through in the form of an abrupt strike on the wood, the fingers continue to play but no sound is heard, until two more strikes make their movement stop. Little by little life and sound start again, but the final strike brings about the pessimistic message that fate and death predominate in the end. The piece ends with the inscription ...but sooner or later we live forever - a final optimistic touch. Nadir  was the outcome of continuous experimentation on the capabilities of the guitar as an instrument, and all the potential sound effects that one can draw from it. ...Dr. Paraskevas, is an amazingly versatile guitarist.  He conquers the many technical challenges of this repertoire with ease, he can sing with the purest tone (try the opening work, Alfonsina y el Mar, and see).  What makes Visions of Azure a wonderful guitar CD rather than simply a good one is the last 18 minutes.  The guitarist saves his own compositions for last, and if the ear is fatigued at this point in the recital. Paraskevas gives it good reason to wake up....I am sold on Paraskevas's playing, and do not think hunting down the alternatives is necessary.   In short, this is an essential CD for those interested in modern classical guitar. 

Solo Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.942064 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Contemporary,Film/TV. Individual part. 6 pages. Silver Sickle Publications #4755271. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.942064). The last words of a dying soldier, his last 5 minutes. A lament full of love, of beautiful memories and theeminent shadow of Death. His simple melody unfolds through variations of agony and ecstasy. The endcomes closer and closer as his heart beat ascends and descends until with its last beat says ...I love you...Lamentations are a eulogy to love not to death and we lament because we love life. Death needs life toexist but not vice versa.

Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1444395 By Keith Terrett. By Catharina Josepha Pratten (15 November 1824 – 10 October 1895. Arranged by Keith Terrett. 19th Century,Classical,Contest,Festival,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Individual part. 5 pages. Keith Terrett #1022785. Published by Keith Terrett (A0.1444395). Catharina Josepha Pratten (15 November 1824 – 10 October 1895) was a German guitar virtuoso, composer, and teacher, also known as Madame Sidney Pratten.She was born Catharina Josepha Pelzer in Mülheim on 15 November 1824, 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.

Acoustic Guitar,Instrumental Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.532383 Composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Arranged by Klas Krantz. Classical,Patriotic. Individual part. 1 pages. Amadeus Music #6057299. Published by Amadeus Music (A0.532383). Nineteen days before his death on 5 December 1791, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed his last complete work, the Freimaurerkantate, K. 623. In parts of the printed edition of this cantata there appeared the song K. 623a Lasst uns mit geschlungnen Händen (Let us with joined hands). To this melody the Austrian national anthem is sung.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. His output of over 600 compositions includes works widely acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. Mozart is among the most enduringly popular of classical composers, and many of his works are part of the standard concert repertoire.