Classical Guitar Tunes – English Folk Songs WORLEY PETER

Classique

Contenu

All Jolly Fellows Who Follow the Plough
Blow the Wind Southerly
Bonny Labouring Boy
Broomfield Hill
Captain Ward and the Rainbow
Caroline and Her Young Sailor Bold
Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy
Cupid?s Garden
Dabbling in the Dew
Dark-Eyed Sailor
Erin?s Lovely Home
Fair Maiden Walking in Her Garden
Green Bushes
Green Grow the Laurels
Green Mossy Banks of the Lea
John Barleycorn
Just as the Tide Was A-Flowing
Maria Marten
Marrowbones
Matty Groves
Monk?s Gate
Oxford City
Queen of the May
Rosemary Lane
Saucy Sailor
Searching for Lambs
Seventeen Come Sunday
The Farmer?s Boy
The Helston Furry Dance
The Indian Lass
The Keel Row (1)
The Keel Row (2)
The Life of a Man
The Lincolnshire Poacher
The Loyal Lover
The Oak and the Ash
The Outlandish Knight
The Pretty Ploughboy
The Seeds of Love
The Sprig of Thyme
The Unquiet Grave
Westron Wynde
About the Composer

Description :

This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barré chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. “It’s an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian. “These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition.” Gerald Garcia