Leonid Hrabovsky Duma Music : 39 pages Leonid Hrabovsky is a Ukrainian composer, born 1935, now living in the USA. Over the years he has written a great many pieces for all manner of combinations of instruments and voices but this book has his entire guitar solo works, which amount to 13 different pieces, spread over 4 actual works. The Night Blues is the first one. It is set in B Major and this one immediately has an opening page that is a mixture of octaves with the t

Joop Klein Goldewijk Bergmann Edition : 16 pages Goldewijk is a Dutch guitarist/composer (and also a painter).Here he has written a set of three pieces for our instrument that are moderately difficult, but not too much so. They are melodic and have, mostly a pattern that you will recognise. The Road is the first one, a three pager, set in 4/4 at 140 crotchets a minute, and having mostly a quaver rhythm with a crotchet usually at beat 4.After that the rhythm of the six quave

Nelly Decamp Les Productions D’OZ: 7 pages Here are three pieces that were inspired by Nelly Decamp’s life in Brasilia, a place where she lived for a while. Concha Acustica (Acoustic Shell) is a place that she discovered after a concert that had wonderful acoustics amid lovely scenery. The shortest of the three pieces it is a Largo, Libre et Sonore full of long exotic chords interspersed with some faster lines of melody that is a great start to this set. At the end of bar 1

Michel Cardin (arrangements and variations) Bergmann Edition: 12 pages Having just reviewed one of this man’s books for Baroque Lute, and saying that this was a rarity for me on my site, here is another, perhaps even rarer! It is a book of two pieces arranged for a Theorbo in A, and again is in tablature entirely. The first piece was written by James Oswald in the 18th Century and is a tune many of you will definitely know, Barbara Allan, and being the instrument that it is,