Easy Baroque Pieces For Classical Guitar

Easy Baroque Pieces for Classical Guitar is an outstanding introduction for the beginner to intermediate guitarist to the music of the Baroque. The Baroque period of music flourished in Europe from 1600 to 1750, and is represented by a singleness of mood and gesture, rhythmic continuity, polyphonic texture, andmelodic ornamentation. Jerry Willard explains the intricacies of Baroque orna mentation (including trills, mordents, and notes inegale) in an easy-to-understand way, and performs each piece on the accompanying audio CD. Includes: Aria(from the Anna Magdelena Notebook)(J.S. Bach) * Bourree in A Minor (theme, fr om the Second Violin Partita) (J.S. Bach) * Largo (Arcangelo Corelli) * The Harmonious Blacksmith (George Frideric Handel) * Canon (Johann Pachelbel) * Minuet (Henry Purcell) *