Mel Agen

FLAMENCO MUSIC FOR ACOUSTIC GUITAR. Mel Agen. SHEET MUSIC METHOD WITH CD & GUITAR TABLATURE.

LIBRO METODO DI MUSICA FLAMENCA, CON CD.

LIBRO DI SPARTITI PER CHITARRA CON: 

PENTAGRAMMA, TABLATURE. 

Product Description:
This book/cd set contains 15 beautiful flamenco guitar solos in notation and tablature written especially for teachers, students and soloists. Flamenco guitar selections you will want in your repertoire for club and concert work.

All selections have been re-recorded by Ben Bolt on the newly released companion CD as of December 15, 2005.

Product Number: 95326BCD
Format: Book/CD Set
ISBN: 078663278X
UPC: 796279047234
ISBN13: 9780786632787
Series: Acoustic Guitar Series
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Date Published: 9/15/1997 

Many has been said about flamenco guitar and the techniques used in this style of playing. Two words are essential in understanding and acquiring a feeling for this music. The words are technique and falseta and they mean the same thing. In flamenco think of the name of the piece of music as being the entire melody. Now think of each falseta as being a melody within a melody. Each falseta usually begins and ends with a particular technique, so each time you see a different finger pattern emerge you can be quite sure you have come to a new falseta It is the synthesis of the various falsetas or techniques in a piece that lends the character and mood to the composition. All the parts add up to create the total feeling of any song.

Flamenco music has a style and character all its own. It is bristling with life. We feel that the arrangements contained in this book embody the very essence of that fiery and moody style. Mel Agen has spent many years studying and performing Flamenco music. His mastery of the subject emerges throughout the many arrangements contained in this text.

Traditionally, students of flamenco guitar leamed the art in the time-honored aural fashion. The fire and varied moods of flamenco music are the natural result of this aural tradition, its improvised nature, and its original function as dance accompaniment. Some of these moods cannot be communicated effectively in standard notation or tablature, and it is common knowledge that in written flamenco guitar music all passages are open to individual interpretation. In flamenco parlance, such passages are referred to as falsetas. These measures or phrases can be played ad libitum, literally "as one pleases" -or they may be varied or even omitted according to the whim or ability of the guitarist. Try this approach with the Farruca or Petemeras, or any flamenco piece. From these expansions, compressions, and dynamic variations come the very life and essence of flamenco music as well as the unique styles of such artists as Serrano, Sabicas, Montoya, Escudero, and others.

Contents:

Editor's note
The correct way to hold the guitar
Flamenco Guitar Techniques
How to read Tablature

Alegrias De Mofa -- Mel Agen
Anhelo (Old Time Soleares) -- Mel Agen
Sangre De Gitano -- Mel Agen
Bulerias -- Mel Agen
Caracoles -- Mel Agen
Amante (Peteneras) -- Mel Agen
Malaguena Del Sonador -- Mel Agen
Soleares (De Montes) -- Mel Agen
Farruca De Juerga -- Mel Agen
Granadinas -- Mel Agen
Canela -- Mel Agen
Guajiras -- Mel Agen
Peteneras De Espana -- Mel Agen
Malaga City Of Dreams -- Mel Agen
Seguiriyas -- Mel Agen