Publisher: Mel Bay
Level: Intermediate
Standard Notation and Tab
Includes access to online audio

An outstanding collection of 33 classic guitar solos transcribed from piano works by Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, and many others. Cuban song and dance rhythms have had a global impact.
These arrangements capture the rhythms, styles, and moods of the Cuban contradanza, danza, vals, canción and criolla of the 19th to early 20th centuries.
The available online audio features Segovia student and Tulane University professor Elias Barreiro performing his arrangements of the multi-faceted music of Cuba.

Music by Manuel Saumell

•  - La Maria
•  - La Tedesco
•  - La Caridad
•  - Los ojos de Pepa
•  - La virtuosa
•  - El pañuelo de Pepa
•  - Recuerdos tristes
•  - La gota de agua
•  - Tu sonrisa
•  - La quejosita
•  - La Matilde
  
  

Music by Ignacio Cervantes

•  - Te quiero tanto
•  - Mis amores
•  - Lejos de ti
•  - La tarde está amorosa
•  - El velorio
•  - Un recuerdo
•  - Intima
•  - La celosa
•  - Siempre si
•  - Adiós a Cuba
  
  

Music by Other Composers

•  - El campamento
•  - Es el amor la mitad de la vida
•  - Destellos
•  - Corazón
•  - El Mambí
•  - Ecos del alma
•  - Cambujá
•  - El Himeneo
•  - La Valentina
•  - San Pascual Bailón
•  - La nueva cañonera