Description

Stanley Yates, “The Contemporary Guitar: An Anthology of New Music”

• Skill Level:  Intermediate-Advanced
• 104 Pages

This collection of new music, written by composers who are or who have been performing guitarists themselves, presents intermediate to advanced concert works that explore the musical and technical diversity of the contemporary guitar.  Each composer offers a unique musical and technical perspective of what the contemporary guitar is.  The harmonic language ranges from jazz to atonality, the styles vary from blues to minimalism, and the cultural influences span from Eastern European to Celtic.  The composers include Delpriora, Gilardino, Hudson, Johanson, Kenyon, Marron, Mearns, Ourkouzounov, Piorkowsky, and Van der Veen.  The music is standard notation only.

• CONTENT:
  1.-  Blues Suite (1. Walking, 2. Mystery, 3. Delta), Roger Hudson
  2.-  Caer Meini, Stephen Kenyon
  3.-  Etude no. 5 from Twelve Etudes, Mark Delpriora
  4.-  Hora, Derk van der Veen
  5.-  Ostinatoccata, Atanas Ourkouzounov
  6.-  Tambú (fantasy for guitar), Mark Delpriora
  7.-  The Slope, James Marron
  8.-  Tolkien Gesture (characters and scenes from “The Lord of the Rings”), Alan Mearns
  9.-  Uraca, James Piorkowski
  10.-  Variations on a Finnish Folk Song, Bryan Johanson
  11.-  Winter Scenes, James Marron
  12.-  Winterzeit (after Robert Schumann), Angelo Gilardino