Nineteen Gilbert & Sullivan Favorites (Book)
Arranged for Classical Guitar
This anthology contains nineteen of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan classics arranged in easily sight-readable versions for beginning to intermediate classical guitarists. All the favorites are here, ranging from sentimental ballads such as 'Little Buttercup', 'Willow, Tit-Willow' and 'There Grew a Little Flower', to more up-tempo 'patter' type pieces such as 'Oh! A Private Buffoon', 'Kind Sir You Cannot Have the Heart' and 'A Policeman's Lot'. The aim has been to provide both a useful teaching resour ...more
Product Number:
20483
Format:
Book
Skill Level:
Intermediate
Pages:
24
Binding:
Saddle Stitched
Size:
8.5 x 11
ISBN:
0-7866-7190-4
ISBN13:
978-07866-7190-8
Publisher:
Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published:
6/7/2004
This anthology contains nineteen of the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan classics arranged in easily sight-readable versions for beginning to intermediate classical guitarists. All the favorites are here, ranging from sentimental ballads such as 'Little Buttercup', 'Willow, Tit-Willow' and 'There Grew a Little Flower', to more up-tempo 'patter' type pieces such as 'Oh! A Private Buffoon', 'Kind Sir You Cannot Have the Heart' and 'A Policeman's Lot'. The aim has been to provide both a useful teaching resource and a light-hearted alternative to the more 'serious' music of the classical guitar repertoire. All the pieces lend themselves extremely well to the common idiomatic textures of the classical guitar. A variety of melody and accompaniment styles are employed, including block chords, arpeggio patterns and passages of double-stopped thirds and sixths. A number of the pieces are in easy first position format, while others explore the common higher positions. The standard guitar keys are utilized (C, G, D, A, E) but there are occasional more challenging temporary modulations to 'difficult' keys, such as E flat major. There are also instances of drop-D tuning, which is often required in classical guitar playing.
 A Policeman's Lot   
 Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady  
 He is an Englishman     
 I am a Courtier Graveand Serious     
 I am the Captain of the Pinafore     
 Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the Heart 
 Little Buttercup      
 Oh! A Private Buffoon      
 Poor Wand'ring One      
 Prithee, Pretty Maiden       
 Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes      
 The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring       
 The Sun, Whose Rays       
 There Grew a Little Flower       
 When a Merry Maiden Marries       
 When Britian Really Ruled the Waves      
 When I, Good Friends, Was Call'd to the Bar    
 Willow, Tit-Willow      
 With Cat-Like Tread      
 
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