Lily Afshar: 5 books

Born in the Italian city of Naples, Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was one of the few Baroque composers to transition into the Classical period. Scarlatti composed operas, cantatas, symphonias and liturgical pieces, but his 555 keyboard sonatas are most well-known; a vast collection of single...

Here, for the first time, Mel Bay Publications offers Persian folk music arranged for the guitar by the Iranian-born, award winning international concert guitarist, Lily Afshar. This collection includes four love songs and a lullaby. These arrangements are extremely lyrical as they depict a singer's...

This collection features transcriptions of pieces by renowned Spanish composers arranged with non-conventional guitar fingerings. Each piece demonstrates Lily Afshar's musicality and sense of touch, especially noticeable in Danza Espanola by Granados, Capricho Arabe and Adelita by Tarrega and Tango...

The Valses Poeticos were composed for solo piano around 1886-1887 by Enrique Granados after moving from Barcelona to Paris to study with Charles-Wilfrid de Beriot and Felip Pedrell. This book presents the seven beautiful waltzes in the Valses Poeticos for guitar, preceded by an un-waltz-like...

Essential Bach Arranged for Guitar provides guitarists with a new approach to many of Bach's masterpieces. The fingerings in the arrangements make the guitar sound rich and full, as if the pieces were written for the instrument. Attention is given to the musical line by using cross-string fingerings...