The Beautiful Sound of Nylon Strings
“Ode to Joy” is best known for its use by Ludwig van Beethoven in the final (fourth) movement of his Ninth Symphony, completed in 1824. Beethoven’s text is not based entirely on Schiller’s poem, and introduces a few new sections….
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“Tears in Heaven” is a song by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings from the 1991 Rush film soundtrack. Its lyrics were inspired by the death of Clapton’s four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from a New York apartment building in 1991….
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“Is There Anybody Out There?” is a song from the Pink Floyd album, The Wall. The second half of the song is an instrumental classical guitar solo. It is not widely known who played it: In several interviews, David Gilmour…
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Bourrée in E minor is a popular lute piece, the fifth movement from Suite in E minor for Lute, BWV 996 (BC L166) written by Johann Sebastian Bach. This piece is arguably one of the most famous pieces among guitarists….
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“Shape of My Heart” is a song by English artist Sting from his album Ten Summoner’s Tales, released in 1993. The song was co-written by guitarist Dominic Miller. Sting explained that through “Shape of My Heart”, he wanted to tell…
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Alborada in Spanish means morning, and in fact this is a song with a sunny character, which sounds catchy, but also of a certain difficulty to play with the classical guitar. The shape of the piece is quite free, typical…
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The music of The Lord of the Rings film series was composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced by Howard Shore. The scores are often considered to represent the greatest achievement in the history of film music in terms of length of…
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The Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, was written by the then 17-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed in Salzburg on October 5,…
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“Carol of the Bells” is a popular Christmas carol composed by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 with lyrics by Peter J. Wilhousky. The song is based on a Ukrainian folk chant called “Shchedryk”. This beautiful music is recognized by a…
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Träumerei is part of the work Kinderszenen by Robert Schumann, that is a set of thirteen pieces of music for piano written in 1838. Schumann wrote 30 movements for this work, but chose 13 for the final version. Discussing the…
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