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The Moon Represents My Heart (Arr Roland Dyens) by Weng Ching-hsi (Guitar Tab)

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Felicidade Arranged by Roland Dyens (1955-2016) Dyens is a French/Tunisian classical guitarist, composer, and arranger. He studied guitar with the Spanish classical guitarist Alberto Ponce and analysis with Désiré Dondeyne. As a performer, Dyens is known for his extraordinary capacity for improvisation. Essentially unique among classical guitarists. His guitar music draws on many elements of …

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Felicidade (Arr by Roland Dyens) by A.C. Jobim/V. de Moraes (Guitar Tab)

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Opus 25 No 1 (Aeolian Harp) by Frederic Chopin (Guitar Tab)

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Opus 25 No 1 (Aeolian Harp) by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most …

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The Elephant by Camille Saint-Saëns (Guitar Tab)

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The Elephant by Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer of the Romantic era. “The Swan” is taken from the “Carnival of the Animals” (Le Carnaval des animaux), a light-hearted musical comedy of 14 moments. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death.

Les Sauvages by Jean Philippe Rameau (Guitar Tab)

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les sauvages by Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) Jean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. Little is known about Rameau’s early years, and it was not until the 1720s that he won fame as a major theorist of music with his Treatise on Harmony (1722). Today, …

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Clair de Lune (Moonlight) by Claude Debussy (Guitar Tab)

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Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy (1862-1918) Level Beginner ‘Clair de lune’ takes its title from an atmospheric poem by the French poet Paul Verlaine which depicts the soul as somewhere full of music ‘in a minor key’ where birds are inspired to sing by the ‘sad and beautiful’ light of the moon. Clair de …

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Flower Duet from Lakme by Léo Delibes (Guitar Tab)

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Flower Duet (Lakme) by Leo Delibes (1836-1891) Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. The “Flower Duet” is a duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano in the first act of Lakmé (1883). It is sung by the characters Lakmé, daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant …

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The Swan (Le Cygne) by Camille Saint-Saëns (Guitar Tab)

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The Swan (Le Cygne) by Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer of the Romantic era. “The Swan” is taken from the “Carnival of the Animals” (Le Carnaval des animaux), a light-hearted musical comedy of 14 moments. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death.

Nocturne Opus 9 No 1 by Frederic Chopin (Guitar Tab)

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Nocturne Opus 9 No 1 by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most of …

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Etude No 24 by Napoleon Coste (Guitar Tab)

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Etude No 24 by Napoleon Coste (1805 – 1883) Napoleon is french and is a major figure in guitar composition of the mid-nineteenth century. Napoleon was taught by his mother at a very early age. Napoleon later became Fernando sor‘s student and quickly established himself as the leading French virtuoso guitarist. Napoleon is the first …

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