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  • Ernest Shand

    Guitar music from Late Victorian England. Modern typeset edition of Shand’s collected guitar works with extensive commentary (CGSE-0080a, 2022, 304 pages).

    (supersedes earlier edition)

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  • Ernest Shand

    Guitar music from Late Victorian England. Shand’s collected works in facsimile (without commentary) (CGSE-0080b, 158 pages)

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  • Stanley Yates

    Concert Arrangements for Guitar Vol. 1: Classical-Romantic Period+ (CGSE-0060-1, 2021. 96 pages)

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  • Bach-Mearns

    Alan Mearns’ ground-breaking Bach arrangements for solo guitar (CGSE-70, 2022, 118 pages)

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  • Thomas Wenzeslaus Matiegka

    Complete Solo Guitar Sonatas with detailed commentary (CGSE-0050, 2017. 158 pages)

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  • Stanley Yates

    Classical Guitar Technique from Foundation to Virtuosity—Part 1 Foundation (CGSE-0040-1, 2016. 198 pages)

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  • Stanley Yates

    Classical Guitar Technique from Foundation to Virtuosity—Part 2 Mastery and Virtuosity (CGSE-0040-2, 2016. 240 pages)

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  • Ferdinando Carulli

    Guitaromanie (vol. 1): Arrangements for Two Guitars with detalied commentary of Music by Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart, and Rossini (CGSE-0030, 2014. 148 pages)

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  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Complete Cello Sonatas Arranged for Guitar with detailed commentary (CGSE-0020, 2014. 84 pages)

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  • Claude Dedussy

    Three Pieces for Oboe and Guitar arr. Todd / Hauser (CGSE-CH0010, 2024, score and parts, 38 pages)

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  • Maurice Ravel

    Cinq Mélodies Populaires Grecques for Oboe and Guitar arr. Todd / Hauser (CGSE-CH0020, 2024, score and parts, 21 pages)

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  • Isaac Albeniz

    26 Pieces Arranged for the Guitar with detaled commentary (MB 97344, 1999. 192 pages)

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  • J. S. Bach

    Six Cello Suites Arranged for the Guitar with extensive commentary (MB 96743, 1998. 192 pages)

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  • Ernest Shand

    Ernest SHAND 23 Guitar Solos from Victorian England (MB 98765, 2000. 79 pages)

    (superseded by new edition - see above)

  • Stepan Rak

    The Guitar Music of Stepan Rak (vol. 1) (MB 96730, 1999. 69 pages)

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  • Derk van der Veen

    Blues and Ballads (MB 99456, 2001. 13 pages)

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  • Various

    The Contemporary Guitar: An Anthology of New Music by Guitarist Composers (MB 99527, 2001. 102 pages)

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  • Stanley Yates

    Stanley YATES En mode—22 Easy Character Pieces for Guitar (MB 20008, 2001. 23 pages)

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  • Stanley Yates

    Stanley YATES Etudes mécaniques—12 Easy-Intermediate Studies for Guitar (MB 2007, 2001. 23 pages)

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  • Various

    Graded Repertoire for Guitar (vol. 1) (MB99630, 2001. 92 pages)

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  • Various

    Graded Repertoire for Guitar (vol. 2) (MB 99630, 2004. 88 pages)

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  • Stanley Yates

    Stanley YATES Classical Guitar Method (vol. 1) (MB 21548, 2008. 88 pages)

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  • Charles [Francois] Doisy

    Grand Concerto for Guitar and Strings (score & parts or piano reduction) (ECH 571 & 572, 2010)

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  • B. Vidal

    B. VIDAL Grand Concerto for Guitar and Strings (score & parts or piano reduction) (ECH 561 & 562, 2010)

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  • Giovanni B. Viotti

    Concerto (No. 18) for Guitar and Strings (score & parts or piano reduction) (ECH 581 & 582, 2010)

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 The Beatles for Solo Guitar (SMP / CGSE)

Multiple editions of Beatles music arranged for solo guitar with standard notation and tablature more

A Day In The Life
A Hard Days Night
All You Need Is Love
And I Love Her
Here Comes The Sun
In My Life
Something
The Long And Winding Road
Yesterday

Guitar Ensemble

scores and carefully-fingered individual parts for various guitar ensemble groups

The Beatles more

And Your Bird Can Sing (4-5 gtrs)
Eight Days A Week (4 gtrs)
Eleanor Rigby (4 gtrs)
For No One (4-6 gtrs)
Penny Lane (4 gtrs)

Three Noire Movie / TV Themes more

James bond Theme (4 gtrs)
Pink Panther Theme (4 grs)
Peter Gunn Theme (4 gtrs)

Contributions to Larger Works

Estudios sobre Fernando Sor (de. Luis Gasser, Edicionnes de ICCMU, 2002)

Instrumental Influences: Reflections on the Classical Guitar from the Instrument’s Most Influential Performers and Pedagogues (ed. Donn LeVie, Kings Crown Publishing, 2011)

Kak nauchit’ igrat’ na gitare Sostavlenie, vstupitel’naia V. Kuznet͡sov (Moscow, 2008)