{"id":12819,"date":"2019-04-24T10:05:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=12819"},"modified":"2019-04-25T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T19:47:19","slug":"recent-sheet-music-books-airs-and-ballads-beethoven-for-guitar-and-flute-abrsm-exam-pieces-and-bach-for-2-guitars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-sheet-music-books-airs-and-ballads-beethoven-for-guitar-and-flute-abrsm-exam-pieces-and-bach-for-2-guitars\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Sheet Music Books: ‘Airs and Ballads,’ Beethoven for Guitar and Flute, ABRSM Exam Pieces, and Bach for 2 Guitars"},"content":{"rendered":"

We get so much sheet music sent to us by various publishers year \u2019round\u2014literally hundreds of pieces in every setting imaginable (solo guitar, multiple guitars, guitar-flute, guitar-harp, etc.)\u2014but we don\u2019t have the space to write about the great majority of them in our four quarterly issues each year. So, just as we write fairly regularly about classical-guitar album releases in this online space, we also occasionally announce recent print music releases. These are not reviews (some\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0be reviewed in the magazine, but frankly most will not), but we think it\u2019s important to at least get the word out about what\u2019s being offered to guitarists out there. Where possible, we\u2019ve linked the titles to the publisher\u2019s website or some other outlet where it can be purchased (often, digital versions are now available, too), but you may have your own favored regional outlets where you can buy sheet music, so we’d encourage you to look there.\u00a0 \u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJohn Lehmann-Haupt<\/strong>
\nAirs and Ballads for Classic Guitar<\/em><\/a><\/strong>
\nMel Bay, 32 pp.<\/p>\n

Veteran New York-based guitarist John Lehman-Haupt offers his advanced solo guitar arrangements of a dozen traditional songs from the British Isles and North America, including such well-known folk standards as Banks of the Ohio<\/em>, Barbara Allen<\/em>, Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair<\/em>, She Moved Through the Fair<\/em>, Shenandoah<\/em>, and six more. “Part of goal for the collection,” he writes in the preface, “has been that each arrangement should be something I would be proud to play in concert, and I very much hope that others will find them to be valuable repertoire additions as well… Four of the songs have been in my repertoire for many years… [and] these arrangements have evolved over time. ” The recordings below give a sense of the beauty of his arrangements.<\/p>\n