Villa-Lobos Solo Guitar: Heitor Villa-Lobos Collected Works for Solo Guitar (Paperback)

~ Heitor Villa-Lobos (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Theodore Presser Co (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934009090
• ISBN-13: 978-0934009096
• Product Dimensions: 12 x 9.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #219,741 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best collection of the Brazilian master!, January 2, 2002

By	Matthew J. Haddon "hvillalobos_2000" (Ypsilanti) - See all my reviews

I was so excited when this book came out about 8 years ago. The exact works as put to paper by Heitor Villa-Lobos. And the price is right! It used to be you would need to spend over 100 bucks for all the guitar works. Etudes, preludes and the Brazilian suites along with the Choros no. 1.
Easy to follow harmonic explinations in the back of the book. This is a must have for all classical guitarists. The best music investment I made in a long time.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What can you say?, October 16, 2006

By	M. Maxwell "SkormFlinxingGlock" (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Probably the pinnacle of achievement in 20th century classical guitar works, certainly among Brazilian composers.

Rating something like this is like rating Shakespeare. The work itself innately valuable, it's just a matter of the accuracy of translation. To that effect this collection succeeds beautifully. You get all his guitar works, plus there is a much needed section at the end which clarifies harmonics and fingering patterns penned by Villa-Lobos himself.

This collection contains all the composer's solo guitar compositions. Here is a list of the contents:

- Choros No. 1 (Typico)
- Suite Populaire Bresilienne
- 12 Etudes
- 5 Preludes

These works are among the most important and innovative in the classical guitar repertiore. Essential.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but lack of fingerings and other explanations makes it opaque and overly-challenging, November 21, 2009

By	Aaron Wolf (Ann Arbor, MI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The music is great, but I wonder if there are other editions out there. I think most people are reviewing the compositions and not this collection specifically. There are very few fingerings, very few other subtleties marked, mostly just the notes. If you go through the work of deciphering the concepts behind the notes, the pieces are great. This is definitely advanced guitar music, not for beginning or intermediate students. However, much of it is easy to comprehend when chords are analyzed and everything is worked out. A lot of the music is simple chord shapes embellished with extra 6ths and 9ths and suspensions and such. It is very idiomatic to the guitar and certainly is concert-worthy music quality. I believe that an edition could be done that added notes about chord names or positions or more fingerings in such a way that it would make it much easier to sight-read and clue-in the reader more immediately to the concepts.