Mozart for Acoustic Guitar

By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arranged by Ben Bolt. For Guitar (Classical & Fingerpicking). Solos. Acoustic Guitar Series. Classic. Level: Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.5x11. 128 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Because Mozart was a profoundly versatile composer, his music suits the guitar as well as it does a chamber orchestra. Includes outstanding transcriptions of movements from several well-known compositions: Concerto No. 21; !Romance! and !Menuetto! from A Little Night Music; Allegro (K525); !Allegro Molto! from Symphony No 40; and more. The text is written in English, Spanish, French, and Japanese and includes both standard notation and tablature.

Double tracked?
"Some of the songs are well arranged and some sound suspicously double tracked and cannot be played as transcribed in tab, without drowning out the melody line by the fill picking. Without knowing how the right hand is fingering the strings or what R.H. technique is used many songs seem impossible to dupicate on your own instrument unless of course you double track or have friend over to play a duet. I have been playing for 10 years and I would not call these songs intermediate by any means, unless of course you pick the easiest fingering passages of each song. "
-- philip delgrosso from Rochester, MI., July 23, 2007
It's a matter of what you want I guess
"It's sort of a 'greatest hits' of passages of music of 1-2 minutes length generally. The CD is slowed down so it's not fun to listen to casually. A huge chunk of the book is repetitive introduction in foreign languages. The lovely Sonata in C major would be very, very hard if not impossible to play as transcribed at anything approaching 'allegro', so it's kind of not the same. Still, there's plenty of good work in evidence here and there's no doubt something for everyone."
-- W Stallard, February 25, 2006
Mozart for Acoustic Guitar