Week 2: Let us play Transcriptions and Arrangements 🎇
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Mozart's Il Mio Tesoro (arr. Pratten)
Here is an arrangement of an aria from Don Giovanni found in Catherina Pratten's "Guitar School" (score attached, but the whole book is easily found on IMSLP). Any chance we have to play some of Mozart's music on the guitar is a real privilege.
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Schubert /Mertz Standchen
This is another piece I had worked on quite a while back and am trying it again. Very rough indeed! I probably won't have it polished for a while. The second verse always gives me a hard time. As does the B section. As does the intro........
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Lutoslawski Folk Melodies #1 'Oh My Johnny'
I have to get something modern in here to salvage my reputation (🙄whatever that means). I heard these on a Julian Bream album of modern music and loved them. I just recently acquired the transcriptions (by Raymond Burley). This is my first effort at these.
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Haydn's Tempo di Menuet from Sonata in D major XVI:33 (trans. Tarrega)
I found this fairly guitar-friendly transcription of some music by Joseph Haydn. The piano version is quite brisk with more ornamentation. The B section is particularly fun to play.