Summertime comes from George Gershwin’s opera, Porgy and Bess. Summertime was composed in 1934 and was written in the style of a spiritual.
I’ve always loved Gershwin’s music and I look forward to arranging more of it in the future!
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Anton Diabelli was an Austrian music publisher who also composed music. He is most famous for having composed the waltz that Beethoven used for his Diabelli Variations. Diabelli composed many wonderful pieces for the guitar. This is a perfect piece for the late-beginner guitar student.
This theme comes from the second movement of Smetana’s beautiful orchestral work called My Vlast. The second movement is called Vltava or The Moldau. In this movement he is trying to evoke the sound of rivers.
I composed Moroccan Nights using the double harmonic scale. The scale goes by a variety of names but what makes it stand out is that it has two large intervals in the scale called augmented 2nds.
I also use some basic rasgueados (strumming) in certain sections of the song as well as a different type of tremolo, compared to what most classical guitarists are used to.
Scarborough Fair is an old traditional English Ballad and nobody knows who actually composed the piece. I’ve always loved the version by Simon and Garfunkel and their recording inspired me to make a solo guitar arrangement of the melody.
Are you going to Scarborough Faire?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lived there.
She once was a true love of mine….
Dee is a beautiful piece of music composed by one of my favorite guitarists, Randy Rhoads. He helped form the band Quiet Riot before joining Ozzy Osbourne. Dee appears on The Blizzard of Ozz album and shows Rhoads’ classical guitar chops. There is even a reference of the opening of the Bach Bouree in the middle of Dee.
Ecossaise (Op. 33 No. 2) was composed by the great guitar Italian virtuoso and composer, Mauro Giuliani. An Ecossaise is a type of dance that has Scottish origins. Giuliani composed around 150 works for the guitar that range from pieces written for the beginner all the way to the concert guitarist.
Una Limosna Por El Amor de Dios is a beautiful piece of music composed by the Paraguayan guitarist/composer, Agustin Barrios Mangore. This is one of his last compositions and really shows how great of a composer he really was. Other than the first couple of measures and the last measure, it makes use of the tremolo technique throughout. I have a few tremolo exercises that can help here: https://robertlunn.com/guitar-school-exercises
A Time for Us is a beautiful piece of music composed by Nino Rota for the movie, Romeo and Juliet.
Fernando Sor was one of the best composers for the classical guitar. He was a Spanish composer and virtuoso who spent time in Paris, London and Moscow. His composed many pieces ranging from pieces for beginners all the way through concert level pieces.
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