Guitar Ensembles - Beginning Level CGR 20 (H. O. T. Hands-On Training)

Compositions and arrangements are written by Dawn C. Wooderson and Nancy Marsters. This book contains 32 pages and is designed for the first-year player. It includes some performance notes, historical notes, and a reference glossary of terms and symbols. No page turns are required. The contents include a variety of styles. CONTENTS Minka (Russian) La Bergamasca (16th century) Psalm 84 (Schutz) Russian Folk Dance O the Beautiful Treasures (Shaker) Blue Bells of Scotland As the Black Billy Boils (Australian) Glowworm (Lincke) Old French Song The Tailor and the Mouse (English) John Peel (English) Meditation for September (Marsters) Korobushka (Russian) Bouree: Parson's Farewell (English) The Touchstone (English) Hushabye (American) Las Mananitas (Mexican) Sourwood Mountain (American) Layered Blues (Wooderson) Marines' Hymn (American) Pappy Trackin' (Wooderson) Argeers (Renaissance) Yankee Doodle Dandy (Cohan) Tzena, Tzena (Israeli) SEQUENCING Pieces are sequenced from the simplest rhythmic patterns to the more complex The first six pieces contain only quarter, half and whole notes (the optional percussion notation has some eighths) Eighth notes are added in the next five pieces Eighth rests occur in the twelfth piece Dotted quarters, cut time and syncopation are added in various pieces that follow Second position is suggested in two places