Videos for the monthly Classical Guitar Sheet Music
Check out this Videos for Monthly Music page to get a good idea of how the music should be performed, especially if you don't read music notation
Video for Monthly Music June 2011
Country Dance by Ferandiere
Video for Monthly Music May 2011
Grazioso by Aguado
Video for Monthly Music April 2011
Andante by Carulli
Video for Monthly Music March 2011
Andante by Carcassi
Video for Monthly Music February 2011
Andantino in A Minor by Carulli
Video for Monthly Music September 2010 Moderato in D by Sor
Video for Monthly music August 2010 Andante in E by Carulli
Video for Monthly music July 2010 Waltz in E by Carulli
Video for Monthly music June 2010 Larghetto by Carulli
Video for Monthly music May 2010 Andante by Carulli
Video for Monthly music April 2010 Etude in C by Coste
Video for Monthly music January 2010 Emperor Theme by Haydn
Video for Monthly Music December 09 Poco Allegretto by Carulli
Video for Monthly Music November 09 Moderato by Diabelli
Video for Monthly Music October 09 Tranquillo by Diabelli
Video for Monthly Music September 09 What if a Day or a Month or a Year? - Anonymous
Video for Monthly Music August 09 Anglaise by Francesco Molino
Video for Monthly Music July 09 Waltz in D Major by Carulli
Video for Monthly Music May/June 09 Andante in A Minor by Dionisio Aguado
Video for Monthly Music April 09 Country Dance - Anonymous
Video for Monthly Music March 09 Prelude in E Major by Matteo Carcassi
Video for Monthly Music February 09 Arpeggio Study by Trevor Maurice
Video for Monthly Music January 09 Gigue by Johann Anton Losy
Video for Monthly Music December 08 Light Duet by Kuffner
Video for Monthly Music October/November 08 E String Exercise by Johann Kaspar Mertz
Video for Monthly Music September 08 Andante by Diabelli
Video for Monthly Music July/August 08
Ecossaise by Giuliani
Video for Monthly Music June 08
Andante by Joseph Kuffner
Video for Monthly Music May 08
Siciliano by Carcassi
Video for Monthly Music April 08
Moderato by Giuliani
Video for Monthly Music March 08
Allegretto in C by Giuliani
Video for Monthly Music February 08
Arpeggio Exercise by M. Carcassi
Videos for Monthly Music January 08 Tanz Der Washerin by Hans Neusiedler
Hans Neusiedler was a German composer and lutenist of Hungarian origin...
Videos for Monthly Music December 07 Trezza - Anon
Trezza is a wonderful little anonymous piece favored by many a guitarist...
Videos for Monthly Music November 07 Etude in G Major by Giuliani
Giuliani was a virtuoso of guitar by the time he was nineteen. He was also adept at the flute and violin and by the time he died had added the title of "highly talented composer" to the list of achievements.
Indeed, he left a legacy of over 300 works for guitar and instrumental combinations, which catered for the beginner to the most advanced guitarist...
Videos for Monthly Music October 07 Troisieme Branle by Adrian Le Roy
This month's music is a Branle by Adrian Le Roy. He was a French publisher/printer, composer, lutenist and writer.
A Branle is a (mainly) French country dance often in duple time and containing repetitive sections. In English it's pronounced "Brawl". Branle means to "sway" and that's exactly what they did when dancing a Branle, that is, sway from side to side.
It was very popular during the 16th and 17th centuries. There are several variations or forms of the Branle namely: Bourgogne; Champagne; Simple; Double; Gai.
Videos for Monthly Music September 07 Minuet by Purcell
Purcell was an English Baroque composer often called England's finest native composer. He incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements but devised a peculiarly English style of Baroque music...
Videos for Monthly Music August 07 Country Dance No.1 by Anton Diabelli
Diabelli received his first musical training as a singer in monasteries and cathedrals. This stood him in good stead for his time with Michael Hayden, brother of the famous Joseph.
But it was the guitar that was his main focus of interest. This enabled him to link up with the more famous, and technically proficient, Mauro Giuliani from whom he learned a great deal.
He was able to earn a good living in Vienna around this time playing and teaching both guitar and piano.
Monthly Music July 07 Adagio by J.K. Mertz
Johann Kaspar Mertz was an Austrian-based guitarist and composer, born in Pressburg, now Bratislava, Slovakia. He was active in Vienna, which had been home to various important figures in the guitar world, including Anton Diabelli, Mauro Giuliani, Wenceslaus Matiegka and Simon Franz Molitor...
Monthly Music June 07 Menuet in C Major by Sor
Sor was one of the most influential classical guitarists of all time writing beautiful studies and didactic works of great importance. A seminal mind who produced one of the best guitar methods of all time...
Monthly Music May 07 Minuet by Johann Krieger
Krieger was a German composer and organist, brother to Johann Philipp Krieger. He succeeded his brother as chamber organist at Bayreuth in 1672...
Monthly Music April 07 Two Waltzes by Carulli
Carulli became one of the most popular and loved classical guitar composers and players of his time...
Monthly Music March 07 Fur Elise
Monthly Music February 07 Andantino by Carulli
Born in Italy in the same year as Beethoven (1770), he became one of the most popular and loved classical guitar composers and players of his time. Indeed, that love extends right up to the present day as new generations of guitarists "find" his music and make it their own.
Monthly Music January 07 Moderato in A Minor by Carulli
When Carulli died in 1841 he had achieved quite a degree of celebrity, especially in Paris. But more than this, he left us rich vein of music that is not only aesthetically pleasing, but instructive and pleasurable as well.
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