Merengue by Frantz Casseus (1915–1993) Frantz Casseus was a Haitian guitarist and composer. Although born and raised in Port-au-Prince, Haiti he spent most of his adult life in the United States. His music maintained a focus on Haitian folk forms, which he incorporated into his recordings and his published compositions. Casseus was also an early …
Tristeza by Haroldo Lobo (1910-1965) Haroldo Lobo or Harold Wolf was a composer of Brazil .Born in a family of musicians. His father played the flute and guitar, and his brother was a composer and drummer. He made his first studies at the School of America Manufacturing, where he also studied theory and solfeggio. It …
Daytripper Lady Madonna by Tommy Emmanuel (1955-) William Thomas “Tommy” Emmanuel AM is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as “Best Acoustic Guitarist” in their readers’ …
Tangos by Juan Maya (1936-) Juan Santiago Maya “Marote”, defined an era. For many knowledgeable people his name belongs on a short list of the most important flamenco guitarists of all time.
La Muerte Del Angel by Manuel Barrueco (1952-) Manuel Barrueco (pronounced Mah-noo-éhl Bah-roo-éh-koh) is a Cuban virtuoso classical guitarist. He was born in 1952 in Santiago de Cuba, on Cuba’s southeastern shore. He has toured in the U.S., Europe and Japan, and serves on the faculty of Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, Maryland.
O Fortuna by Carl Orff (1895-1982) Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana (1937). In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children
Sonata (Duet) by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was one of the principal Italian composers of comic operas. He began his career with the comic opera Le Stravaganze del conte, From 1784 to 1787 Cimarosa lived in various Italian cities, composing both serious and comic operas. Cimarosa was a prolific composer whose music abounds …
Agua e Vinho by Egberto Gismonti (1947-) Egberto Gismonti Amin is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. By the early ’70s, he had laid the groundwork for his current style which incorporated elements drawn from musicians as wide-ranging as Django Reinhardt and Jimi Hendrix.
Vals Da Tunisia by Toquinho (1946-) Antônio Pecci Filho, better known as Toquinho, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well-known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes. As he was very short along his childhood, her mother used to call him “meu toquinho de gente” (“my piece of person”). …
O Bone Jesu by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of …
