Instrumental Duet Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928250 Composed by Lynieve Austin, Simon James. Contemporary,Latin,World. Score and parts. 6 pages. DML #5334939. Published by DML (A0.928250). This song is based on a Colombianas a Flamenco style imported, as the name suggests, from South America. There has always been a rich interchange between Spain and South America, not so surprising perhaps. I had written the beginning as a solo piece but when Lynieve heard it she said it gave her a strong image of a little girl playing outside in the sun. So I just let her go with it. The lyrics are mostly hers but I added a line here and there and a lot of the melody sprang naturally from the lyrics. We tried to retain that original image of childhood but with just a hint of the unavoidable growing up. Although the lyrics are in English it forms a group with Torito and Una Pena Quita Pena as it is based on various styles of Flamenco.

Small Ensemble Guitar,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928252 Composed by Lynieve Austin, Simon James. Contemporary,Latin,Multicultural,World. Score and parts. 7 pages. DML #5355765. Published by DML (A0.928252). This is a complex song using the rhythm of a Flamenco rumba but with a mixture of finger style and strumming, it will need time and patience to do it well. It uses well known coplas from traditional Spanish sources and is naturally about love but with some fairly pointed remarks like the copla that ends ‘a shoe once worn, discarded, I never wear again’. One of the best things about the Flamenco approach to lyrics - you are never tied down to just one version so you can change the song according to the mood you’re in. This was first performed at the opening of the 2007 Croydon Jazz Festival.

Small Ensemble Cello,Flute,Guitar,Oboe,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928265 Composed by Traditional Austrian. Arranged by Simon James. Christian,Christmas,Contemporary. Score and parts. 18 pages. DML #6099595. Published by DML (A0.928265). Still, still, still is an Austrian Christmas carol and lullaby. The words describe the peace of the infant Jesus and his mother as the baby is sung to sleep. There are various English translations but this one is my own and I have tried to stay close to the original German version supporting the idea of a lullaby. The carol can be played with just the guitar part but I have added a flute, an oboe and a cello to allow more performers to be used if desired.

Composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828). Arranged by Simon James. Classical Period. Set of Parts. 10 pages. Published by DML

Small Ensemble Guitar,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928267 Composed by Traditional Austrian. Arranged by Simon James. Christmas,Classical,Contemporary. Score and parts. 19 pages. DML #6131975. Published by DML (A0.928267). Süßer die Glocken nie klingen (Sweeter the bells never sound) is a popular German Christmas carol with text by Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger to a traditional Volkslied (folk song) melody, first printed in 1860. I’ve arranged it for tenor and treble accompanied by guitar. The score contains parts for the singers and the guitar plus a simple chord part for understanding the harmony.

Jazz Combo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.790309 By Carly Simon & James Taylor. By Charlie Foxx and Inez Foxx. Arranged by Nigel Hanley. Contemporary,Pop,Rock. Score and parts. 18 pages. Nigel Hanley Music #6343707. Published by Nigel Hanley Music (A0.790309). This chart is a 7-piece band arrangement of ‘Mockingbird’ in F, written and sung by Inez and Charlie Foxx, and released in Australia by Johnny O'Keefe. The instrumentation is keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, trumpet, tenor sax, and trombone.  (Lyric sheet included, score not included)A rehearsal/accompaniment mp3 is also available from www.bandchartpro.cominfo@nigelhanley.com     nigelhanley.com    bandchartpro.comSuitable for: rock band with horns, little big band, funk band with horns, cover band with horns, cruise ship bands, high school & college bands, cabaret bands & cabaret artists

Solo Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1189167 Composed by Simon James. Classical,Contemporary,Instructional. Individual part. 6 pages. DML #788788. Published by DML (A0.1189167). These short Preludes for guitar are intended to illustrate a particular technical point or points. It may be either technical or compositional or both and I would have to say that I have been influenced by Tarrega’s Preludes which he wrote mostly for his students and so have called them Preludes rather than Studies. I learnt Tarrega’s pieces such as Adelita and Lagrima early in my study of the guitar and always enjoyed their nature as both technical exercises but also performance pieces. I have tried to emulate that with these pieces. The piece makes extensive use of open strings but is essentially a set of variations. The melody keeps returning but with small alterations as does the accompaniment. There is also a B section in E minor before a return to the opening melody. The return to the opening section has, as a variation, a change in bass and harmony. The original C major7 chord becomes E minor by changing the bass and the E minor chord becomes C major7 in the same fashion. The effect is subtle but attractive and is no harder to play.

Choral Alto Voice,Soprano voice (4-Part) - Level 3 - Interactive Download SKU: A0.479688 By Carly Simon & James Taylor. By Charlie Foxx and Inez Foxx. Arranged by Deke Sharon. This edition: Interactive Download. Pop. Octavo. Duration 116. Deke Sharon #4BlqvEiuAT4ZxU3YaIjvtR. Published by Deke Sharon (A0.479688). Key: Eb major.I am excited to sell my music on Noteflight Marketplace and let ensembles adapt this arrangement for their needs. Please enjoy and perform this with all the passion in your heart!

Guitar Ensemble Guitar - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928264 Composed by G F Handel, anon. Arranged by Simon James. Baroque,Christmas,Standards. Score and parts. 10 pages. DML #6098171. Published by DML (A0.928264). A popular Christmas carol, the tune usually used today is from an 1848 edition by Lowell Mason for The National Psalmist (Boston, 1848). The name of this tune was given as Antioch, and was attributed as being From Handel.  . Consequently, and with Mason's attribution to Handel, there has long been speculation over how much a part Handel's Messiah had in Joy to the World. However, resemblances between Messiah and Joy to the World, have been dismissed as 'chance resemblance' by Handel scholars today. I have combined Handelian elements with the tune that most people know to create an arrangement that works well for guitar quartet retaining the bounce and vigour of the carol.

Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1144931 Composed by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini, lyrics Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. Arranged by Simon James. Classical,Contemporary,Folk,Historic,Romantic Period. 12 pages. DML #745248. Published by DML (A0.1144931). This became one of the best known tunes of the 20th century. The original version was published in 1785 and was an immediate success, a classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816) taking its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel Célestine. The most famous version of the 20th century is undoubtedly that of Elvis Presley. He changed the words and only used the tune of the chorus – Plaisir D’Amour – adding in a second section to what became ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’. Joan Baez in 1966, The Seekers with Judith Durham in 2009 at their reunion concert, Nana Mouskouri, Mary Hopkins in Welsh have all recorded the song though they used different English lyrics as the basis for their versions while keeping the French Plaisir D’Amour. This arrangement uses the French lyrics and follows Martini’s original harmonies but is arranged to better suit the guitar. It is a more comprehensive song with two other sections which always return to the original Plaisir D’Amour so you might consider it a chorus. I have added a translation of the French text into English which can be sung to the Martini melody.

Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1318113 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Simon James. Advent,Baroque,Christmas,Classical,Contemporary. 19 pages. DML #906815. Published by DML (A0.1318113). Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring is the popular English title of the chorale from the 1723 Advent cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben (Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life), BWV 147. This arrangement for guitar quartet follows Bach’s original orchestration as far as possible so the choral sections co-exist with the string parts and basso continuo. It does involve a certain amount of reduction in the original voicings but has retained the cross rhythms in the choral section and bass. It makes this arrangement quite complex to perform but very definitely worth it. The 2nd guitar and 1st guitar do cross over each other but that is in Bach’s original writing and I have not changed it.

Guitar Ensemble Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928272 By Ed Sheeran. By Ed Sheeran and Jake Gosling. Arranged by Simon James. Pop. Score and parts. 10 pages. DML #6858481. Published by DML (A0.928272). Autumn Leaves was a bonus track on the album + (plus), Ed Sheeran wrote this song about a dear friend that had passed away. This song arranges really well for two guitars. The melody sits beautifully in ninth position and requires almost no change allowing for vibrato and the very best sound from a nyIon string guitar. 

(3-Part Mixed) - Digital Download SKU: HX.363392 By Carly Simon & James Taylor, Charlie Foxx, Inez Foxx, and Toby Keith Duet With Krystal. Arranged by Roger Emerson. Choral. Collection,Folk,Pop. Choral. 10 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital (HX.363392).

Guitar,Instrumental Duet,Voice - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1281240 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Simon James. Classical,Contemporary,Folk,Historic,Traditional. 36 pages. DML #872584. Published by DML (A0.1281240). Songs are about storytelling, sometimes the emotions of a moment, happy or sad, sometimes an entire life in three verses and a chorus. These songs I chose because I like them, some I learnt from my first real guitar teacher, Dylan Todd, at the Guitar Centre in Palma de Mallorca in the late sixties when my family lived there; some from my father who was my other first guitar teacher; some down the years from other musicians. I have kept the accompaniments as simple as possible to go with my book The Art Of Accompaniment On The Guitar, most guitarists could handle them. I have also annotated everything, knowing the history of a song is important and as we increasingly lose the oral tradition I was brought up with the reason I chose certain verses and not others becomes relevant to that understanding. This is a simpler publication than the printed one available from Amazon. All of these songs are out of copyright, those that are in copyright that I would include and have arranged can be found individually through Sheet Music Plus or Sheet Music Direct.

Flute,Guitar - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1173666 By Crosby Stills and Nash. By David Crosby. Arranged by Simon James. 20th Century,Chamber,Classical,Contemporary,Folk. 16 pages. DML #773814. Published by DML (A0.1173666). Guinnevere is a song written by David Crosby in 1968. The song is notable for its serene yet pointed melody and its unique lyrics, which compare Queen Guinevere to the object of the singer's affection, referred to as mi'lady. In a Rolling Stone interview, Crosby remarked: That is a very unusual song, it's in a very strange tuning (EBDGAD) with strange time signatures. I have arranged the song in standard tuning as re-tuning your guitar can be very time consuming. In order to do this successfully I have made some changes to the original accompaniment, nothing drastic and the feel of the guitar part is still the same. The version for trio (guitar and two flutes) is taken from the various live performances and has an extended structure compared to the original song. The harmony has a deliberate mediaeval feel to it in keeping with the atmosphere of the song. You could use any two instruments for this, on the recording I made of this arrangement  for the album The Great Music Of Crosby Stills Nash And Young (2021) I used guitars for everything.