Introduction
This page collects selected performance and practice materials available at MPAL! For suggestions to help you do some searching on your own for related material, refer to the call number and subject heading recommendations at the bottom of the page. As always, if you have any trouble finding material in the Library or navigating the catalog, don't hesitate to ask at the service desk!
Materials Available at MPAL
Below are a few examples of the guitar bibliographies and repertoire guides available through MPAL.
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Guitar Music by Women Composers
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Call Number: ML128.G8 M23A practical guide for guitarists searching for new repertoire that includes women composers, this unique work lists musical works by instrumentation followed by biographies of each composer. -
Gitarre-Musik ein internationaler Katalog
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Call Number: ML128.G8 G57 -
Music for Voice and Classical Guitar, 1945-1996
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Call Number: ML128.S3 M272This work provides for the first time an annotated catalog of the entire range of guitar compositions. Each entry includes the composer; title; language in which the work is to be sung; dates of composition and copyright; publisher and catalog number; author and text source; voice type required to sing the song as indicated by the score; range and tessitura; and difficulty of the piece for the singer. -
Guitar Bibliography
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Call Number: ML128.G8 S38G8 -
Guitar Music in Print: Guitar Music in Print and Books on the Art of Guitar
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Call Number: ML128.G8 R39
The following are some examples of materials on guitar instruction and study that can be found in MPAL and online.
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Teaching Beginning Guitar Class
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Call Number: MT580 .S9 2017 & OnlineAs guitar instruction increases in popularity in secondary schools, many band, choir, and orchestra teachers are asked to teach guitar. In one helpfully concise volume, Teaching Beginning Guitar Class: A Practical Guide provides all of the practical tools that are necessary to teach guitar in the classroom, especially for music instructors who are not guitar specialists. -
Classical Riffs for Guitar
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Call Number: MT585G73 C5A unique compendium of over two hundred riffs in the classical/rock style. Includes in-depth studies of all phased of progressive rock,Eurometal,fusion, American meta, and other related styles. -
The Joe Pass Guitar Method
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Call Number: MT582 P27J6A comprehensive, easy-to-understand intermediate approach to jazz guitar playing techniques, helps develop an individual concept of improvising by learning scales and their basic chord forms and further develops improvisation skills through the use of practice patterns. Utilizes transcriptions along with several original pieces by Joe Pass.
