Solos
Listen to York Guitar Quartet performing on their album Landscape With Trees.
Composer
Title
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Anon.
Farewell to Tarwathie
A Scottish whaling song based on a poem by George Scroggie.
Grade 1.
A Scottish whaling song based on a poem by George Scroggie.
Grade 1.
Dalza, J.A.
Poi Che Volse La Mia Stella - This piece is taken from Dalza’s Intabulatora de Lauto Libro Quarto, based on a song by Bartolomeo Tromboncino and published by Petrucci in Venice (1508).
Grade 5
Grade 5
S0115
The Most Sacred Queen Elizabeth, Her Galliard
Many versions of this piece for guitar use the standard guitar scordatura. This version uses the lute scordatura (transposed) with the 3rd string in F sharp, thus giving a sonority more like the original. Perhaps harder to read but I think worth it.
Grade 7
Many versions of this piece for guitar use the standard guitar scordatura. This version uses the lute scordatura (transposed) with the 3rd string in F sharp, thus giving a sonority more like the original. Perhaps harder to read but I think worth it.
Grade 7
Walsingham - Dowland’s arrangement of a popular ballad.
Not to be confused with ‘As I went to Walsingham’ by Francis Cutting - which is much shorter and much easier!
Grade 8
Not to be confused with ‘As I went to Walsingham’ by Francis Cutting - which is much shorter and much easier!
Grade 8
S0096
Dowland’s Bells - a short version of Dowland’s original Galliard The Lady Rich’s Galliard.
Grado 6
Grado 6
S0108
Forrest, A.
Stringwizard
Berceuse, Tanz, Lament, The Flight of the Bouncing Bee, Falcon Soaring, Cider Dance, Vals, Night Train - played by me so imagine how nice these could sound!
Grades: Initial - 2
Berceuse, Tanz, Lament, The Flight of the Bouncing Bee, Falcon Soaring, Cider Dance, Vals, Night Train - played by me so imagine how nice these could sound!
Grades: Initial - 2
Josquin des Prez
La Bernadina
I have here used a three part score of Josquin’s original but also used solo lute versions created by Francesco Spinacino (c.1507) and Hans Neusidler (c.1508 - 1563)
Grade 5
I have here used a three part score of Josquin’s original but also used solo lute versions created by Francesco Spinacino (c.1507) and Hans Neusidler (c.1508 - 1563)
Grade 5
S0034
Stanley, W.
A Pavin - (the original for orpharion)
Probably by William Stanley, the 9th Earl of Derbie.
Grade 8
Probably by William Stanley, the 9th Earl of Derbie.
Grade 8
S0116
Weiss, S. L.
Please see pieces by Weiss on the Solos drop-down menu.
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La Plainte ou Tombeau des Mesdemoiselles de Visée - (original for lute or theorbo)
Grade 7
Grade 7
S0118
