DUOS

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Grades: 1-2

Five Simple Pieces. Five simple but effective duets for beginner guitarists.

Grades: 1-2

Dmitri and the Heavy Fridge

A duet for 2 bass guitars (or 2 tenor- or normal - guitars)

Grades 4-5

Graded Sight Reading Duets

from Grade 1 to 4

There is a score, which is probably easier to play from since each player can follow the other.

Included are separate parts where each player has to rely more on an accurate sense of pulse and an understanding of the other player's interpretation. The pieces are not so much about sight-reading as to develop the ability to play in ensemble; to listen and keep in time, follow dynamics and expression.

I'd like very much any thoughts you have on these since I have not come across any similar exercise elsewhere.

La Rossignol

from the lute duet.

Grades: 3

Earl of Salisbury's Pavan

This piece formed part of the publication Parthenia, composed in memory of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury.

Grades:6

Cuba (Caprice Creole). No.8 from Suite Española for classical guitar duet.

Grades: 5-6

Cuba (Caprice Creole). No.8 from Suite Española for requinto and guitar duet.

Grade: 5

Prelude No.3 from 48 Preludes and Fugues for pianoforte.

Grades: 8,7

Earl of Salisbury - a Pavan for flute or melody instrument

Grade 5

Padoana Veneziana. (from an old radio recording!). Arranged from the lute solo for two guitars.

Grades: 3-4

Le Réveille-Matin (The Alarm Clock). Arranged for guitar duet from the harpsichord original (in F).

Grades: 7,6

Les Papillons (The Butterflies). Arranged for guitar duet from the harpsichord original.

Grades: 8,5

Les Petits Moulins (The Little Windmills). Arranged for guitar duet from the harpsichord original.

Grades: 6,6

Les Bergeries - (The Sheep-folds or Pastorale). Arranged for two guitars from the harpsichord original.

Grades: 6,6

Les Moissoneurs (The Reapers ). Arranged for guitar duet from the harpsichord original.

Grades: 7,7

LeDodo, ou l'amour au Berceau. Arranged for guitar duet from the harpsichord original.

Grades: 6,5

Les Barricades Mystérieuses - Arranged for two guitars from the harpsichord original.

Grades: 6,5

A Lesson for Two Lutes

Arranged from the lute duet for two guitars.

Grade 2-3

The Frog Galliard

Also known as the air "Now, oh now I needs must part"

Grade 7,7

Romance Sans Paroles Opus 17 No. 3

A well known piano solo arranged for 2 classical guitars.

Grades:6-7

Gnossienne No. 1

Grade 2

Gnossienne No. 3

A haunting melody arranged from the piano solo for guitar duet.

Grade 2

Gymnopédie No. 1

Grade 3

Le Piccadilly

A lively 'ragtime' piece arranged for guitar duo.

Grade 4

Sonata L.428 originally for harpsichord.

Grades: 7,6

Sem' Tants Kukol

Lyrical Waltz, Gavotte, Romance, Polka, The Little Ballerina, Hurdy-Gurdy , Dance .

In 1944-45, Shostakovich wrote his Children's Notebook (opus 69), an album of easy piano pieces, for his daughter, Galya. This second album of children's piano pieces followed in 1952. These dances are derived from material from ballet suites that he wrote in 1949-50. They exist in both orchestral and piano versions. The melodies are lively and tuneful, though Shostakovich's sudden modulations into remote keys ensure that they never become banal.

This duet arrangement shares the melody and accompaniment between the two guitars where appropriate, especially in the last piece, Dance, where the parts become 'conversational', copying phrases from one another.

Grades: 5-7

Three Preludes Opus 87 originally from a set of 24 preludes and fugues for piano.

Grades: 8

Sonata No.33 from the keyboard sonata.

Grades: 8

L'Encouragement

Cantabile; Theme and Variations; Valse

Grades: 7,7