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Title: Renaissance Music For Guitar (Book&CD) by Alexander Allan, Andrew Gordon ISBN: 1-882146-61-1 Publisher: A.D.G. Productions Pub. Date: 30 October, 1997 Format: Plastic Comb List Price(USD): $22.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Addictive, playable music
Comment: This is a great collection of tunes If you play the guitar and you aren't a concert standard player (whatever that means) you've probably had that experience where you buy a book of guitar music and a third of it is far too difficult to play (unless your last name is Bream or Williams). A third of it is playable but uninteresting, and that leaves a few tunes may be worth playing.

This book is different. It contains great tunes with a range of difficulties though all are playable by that mysterious character, the intermediate guitarist. Some of the most beautiful are disarmingly simple. The beauty of renaissance music is that it was written for a stringed instrument like a guitar by people who played a stringed isntrument.It's not like someone has taken a chopin pollanaise and transcribed it. These short pieces are not only fun to play, but they have melody and rhythm and they sound good on the instrument.

The editor's fingering makes sense (this isn't always the case in guitar anthologies) and the selection is interesting and varied. There are a couple of well known pieces, but some real finds too.

This book has no dud tunes, and nothing that you look at and know you're never going to play. The fact that it is presented in both tab and standard musical notation makes it easier too. If you have a choice, buy the cd. Not only is it good to listen to but It makes learning so much easier. The cd doesn't get bored with you asking it to play the one piece over and over again while you're working it out. So if you want a collection of pieces that are not only fun to play, but which are worth playing and worth listening to Buy this. If you know nothing about renaissance music for the guitar, this is a good introduction. And if you know a flute or recorder player, buy the author's "renaissance music for the guitar and flute' from the same publisher. be warned though, much of this music is addictive.

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