Guitar (fingerpicking) - Intermediate - Digital Download SKU: M0.95552EB Award-Winning Fingerstyle Guitar Solos. Composed by Al Petteway. Solos. Style. E-book. Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music #95552EB. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music (M0.95552EB). ISBN 9781619119215. 8.75x11.75 inches.Master guitarist Al Petteway ventures into new territory with 15 Celtic-inspired, traditional, and New Age fingerstyle compositions in standard and alternate tunings. Derived from Al’s award-winning solo recording of the same title, each piece bears the inimitable Petteway signature of profoundly graceful, inspired innovation. Written in standard notation and tab with several pieces in alternate tunings. Al began his professional music career at the age of 11. He played guitar, drums, and string bass with a variety of rock and folk acts in the Washington D.C. area during the 60’s, becoming a local legend by the time he went to college to study music composition in 1970. In 1977, Al took a job with The National Geographic Society. His work as Supervisor of Picture Editing for the society’s Image Collection, gave him the artistic freedom to develop his own acoustic guitar style. While long recognized as one of the country’s foremost bluegrass and folk sidemen, Celtic music specialty label Maggie’s Music signed Al in 1993 and released Whispering Stones following by The Waters and the Wild-exposing his solo acoustic guitar work to an international audience for the first time. Al left the National Geographic to become a full-time musician in the spring of 1995, just before the release of Midsummer Moon.

Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1070387 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Romantic Period,World. Full Performance. Duration 203. Silver Sickle Publications #6102999. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.1070387). Mountains of Stowe, 2015 is a two-movement piece commissioned by and dedicated to guitarist Adam Holzman. The first movement I Stand Strong reflects the serenity and isolation someone might feel when surrounded by the mountains of Stowe, Vermont in the U.S.A. The second movement â€¦and the Sky is the Limit written in an ABA cyclic form is full of rhythmic gestures starting with the combination of 7/8, 2/4, 5/8 and 3/4 in the first four measures that leads to a slow movement as an attempt to sing a Greek song in those vast territories and to portray the thankfulness of being there and experience the presence of the amazing beauty of it.  When asked why he commissioned this piece, Holzman replied, My wife and I spend our summers in Stowe. We love being there, celebrate the summer and spend time outside. We have family and friends who come and share a few days with us and Apostolos is a dear friend who has been coming for several years. We talked about the possibility of him writing a piece that reflected Stowe and the mountains. When asked about the piece, Paraskevas responded, I always write music for the person behind the instrument, so while composing every note of this piece I had Adam in my mind; the way he plays, the way he breathes the way he lives his life. The work is written for the mountains of Stowe through Adam’s eyes and heart and I am the vehicle who translates it.

Guitar - Digital Download SKU: A0.1070388 Composed by Apostolos Paraskevas. 20th Century,Romantic Period,World. Full Performance. Duration 260. Silver Sickle Publications #6103003. Published by Silver Sickle Publications (A0.1070388). Mountains of Stowe, 2015 is a two-movement piece commissioned by and dedicated to guitarist Adam Holzman. The first movement I Stand Strong reflects the serenity and isolation someone might feel when surrounded by the mountains of Stowe, Vermont in the U.S.A. The second movement â€¦and the Sky is the Limit written in an ABA cyclic form is full of rhythmic gestures starting with the combination of 7/8, 2/4, 5/8 and 3/4 in the first four measures that leads to a slow movement as an attempt to sing a Greek song in those vast territories and to portray the thankfulness of being there and experience the presence of the amazing beauty of it.  When asked why he commissioned this piece, Holzman replied, My wife and I spend our summers in Stowe. We love being there, celebrate the summer and spend time outside. We have family and friends who come and share a few days with us and Apostolos is a dear friend who has been coming for several years. We talked about the possibility of him writing a piece that reflected Stowe and the mountains. When asked about the piece, Paraskevas responded, I always write music for the person behind the instrument, so while composing every note of this piece I had Adam in my mind; the way he plays, the way he breathes the way he lives his life. The work is written for the mountains of Stowe through Adam’s eyes and heart and I am the vehicle who translates it.

By Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). For Guitar (Classical). Classic. 56 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications - Digital Sheet Music

Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.876661 Composed by Dosia McKay. Arranged by Dosia McKay. 20th Century,Contemporary,Pop. Individual part. 6 pages. Gavia Music #18657. Published by Gavia Music (A0.876661). From the composer: I wrote Parting for Baroque lutenist Will Tocaben in the summer of 2013. At that time it seemed that everywhere I turned, I saw relationships falling apart and close and distant friends going through breakups. I wanted to write a reflective piece expressing the sense of being pulled back and forth, the feeling of loss and uncertainty, with the final release and acceptance. Originally composed for Baroque lute in Dm, this transcription is prepared in Bm notated in treble clef for classical guitar, edited by Argentine virtuoso Sergio Puccini. Total duration 5'00''.

Solo Guitar - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1304754 Composed by Doug Smith. 20th Century,Classical,Folk,Instructional,Multicultural,World. Individual part. 6 pages. Doug Smith Guitar Studio #894181. Published by Doug Smith Guitar Studio (A0.1304754). Impromptu For Anna is music composed for performance on the twelfth fret of the guitar. The mood of the music is one of exotic mystery. The high range of the pitches offer sounds that are quite simialr to Chinese folk instruments. The music was first performed for Chinese visitors to McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul, MN in the summer of 2015. The melody is built within arpeggios that weave open strings into the texture. Intonation in the high range of the guitar involves careful listening and exact fingering with the left hand.

Guitar Ensemble Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.971811 Composed by Britt Andrew Burns. Contemporary. Score and parts. 24 pages. Indie Classical Publications #3141393. Published by Indie Classical Publications (A0.971811). IN MOTION was written in the Summer of 2017 as a result of a friend's suggestion. This is the first time I have attempted to compose for a guitar orchestra ensemble, which has only emerged in recent years. This somewhat syncopated work is meant to be both fun for the performers and the audience. The 5th Guitar 's sixth string must be tuned down to drop-D tuning. The rest of the guitars are in standard tuning. It is recommended to double each part with at least three guitarists if possible. The key signatures represent A Dorian and F Lydian. Level: grade 4 (intermediate). Duration: About 2 minutes, 5 seconds. Instrumentation: Five Nylon-String Guitars (15 players or more).