These 20 Baroque pieces are selected from the repertoires of various keyboard instruments like Harpsichord or organ. Some of the pieces are much better known than others, but they all are of a high musical standard very rewarding for the beginner guitarist. I have tried to keep the level of technical difficulty within the first four grades (1-4) of the classification observed in the annual syllabuses of British musical academies such as the Royal Schools of Music, Trinity College, Guildhall College, etc, of prescribed examination pieces for these grades. The Metronome markings are only editorial suggestions provided as general guidance but should not be taken too literally. This volume is divided into two sections. In the first section the pieces are given in ordinary notation and in decorated pages such as this one, without any fingerings or other technical help, but only for the pleasure of users who prefer a Baroque decorated appearance of books containing Baroque music. In the second section the same pieces are presented in undecorated pages and in double systems of notation pentagrams and tablature hexagrams in which the fingerings for every piece become obvious by the tablature and without further need for more left hand guidance. Therefore this book can be printed on paper either in its complete given form, or in any other page arrangement the user may prefer. Blank pages are provided for insertion at correct places for the management of left and right sides of a two-side view, but the volume has been designed with a paperless environment in mind where a tablet and a score reading application would be used.

Socrates Arvanitakis London 2024

Contents

1 Ah How Pleasant Tis To Love - Henry Purcell 2 Aria - Daniel Speer 3 Air - John Blow 4 Minuet In Am - Henry Purcell 5 Hope, Skip and Jump (Rigadoon) - Henry Purcell 6 Minuet in Am - Johann Krieger 7 Bourree in Am - Georg Philip Telemann 8 Minuet Chin Am - Charles Dieupart 9 Bourree in Am - Johann Krieger 10 Minuet in C - Johann Georg Leopold Mozart 11 Gavotte in C - Georg Philip Telemann 12 Minuet in G - Georg Philip Telemann 13 Sonata in G (K42) - Domenico Scarlatti 14 Le Petite Rien in C - Francoise Couperin 15 Minuet in Am -Jacquet Elisabeth Claudede de la Guerre 16 Menuett in Em - Alessandro Scarlatti 17 Aria (detta La Frescobalda) - Gerolamo Frescobaldi 18 Minuet in Dm - Johann Sebastian Bach 19 Menuett in C - Domenico Scarlatti 20 Gavotte (Row Me Gently) - Georg Friedrich Handel