Renaissance Music for Flute & Gui­tar by Allan Alexan­der and Jes­sica Walsh (OUT OF PRINT?)

Renaissance Music for Flute & Gui­tar by Allan Alexan­der and Jes­sica Walsh. There is great music to be found in all times and from all coun­tries. This is what we are al­ways look­ing for … pieces that sur­prise us (pleas­antly of course), tunes that make us say, «I want to hear that again," and music that we can't stop play­ing. Allan & Jes­sica have com­piled a tremen­dous col­lec­tion of Re­nais­sance and Me­dieval duos for flute and gui­tar. If you love play­ing in­de­pen­dent, in­ter­est­ing parts and if you like com­mu­ni­cat­ing with your mu­si­cal part­ner, this is the book for you. This music cap­tures the feel­ing of the Me­dieval and Re­nais­sance times. It comes alive when you play it. Dur­ing the Re­nais­sance, it was the per­form­ers who wrote the music. Often they added vari­a­tions; they were ex­cited about the melodies. Allan & Jes­sica bring some of this ap­proach to the music in this book. Good music need not be dif­fi­cult to play. When doing arrange­ments, they make sure that the pieces lay well on the in­stru­ments. A few of the pieces in this book are com­posed by Allan & Jes­sica, be­cause they also love to write. Noth­ing is more sat­is­fy­ing, noth­ing gives us greater plea­sure than cre­at­ing a tune that they want to come back to over and over again … and this is truly in the spirit of the Re­nais­sance. There are al­most sev­enty min­utes of music on the CD, and 29 pieces in the book. This book is per­fect to take on gigs, or just to play with a friend. The point is, the music is great. You have to play the tunes in this book to ap­pre­ci­ate what Allan & Jes­sica are talk­ing about. The CD will give you in­sights into the music, and it will be en­joy­able to lis­ten to on its own merit.