Dolcie Muse is set up by a very experienced guitarist and educator and features original vocal, educational and instrumental compositions and many readable arrangements of public domain music for guitar and various instrumental groups.

Guitar

Waltz and Variations in C Major by Ferdinando Carulli arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel

This is just one of those Carulli tunes we just loved to play faster and faster to drive our parents and teachers crazy! Very much of the Classical era, restrained and abstract, and like all Carulli's educational music very harmonic. Each Variation is in DC al Fine form, but I give them written out fully to avoid confusion. My teacher always encouraged me to analyze the harmony as I played and this goes back all the way to Carulli and Carcassi's teaching methods which were based on scales an...

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The Bells of Paradise -Guitar Solo with TAB by trad. arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel

This tune, also known as Down In Yon Forest, was collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1908 from Castleton. It is a beautiful traditional carol in the old sense - which could be sung at any time of year - with a call and response pattern to the lyrics. I first heard it in fact on one of those dramatised Tudor history series so popular in the 1970s/1980s when a convicted traitor was singing it in his cell in the Tower prior to being gruesomely hung drawn and quartered. The tune stuck in my h...

Mazurka in A minor Op 59 No 1 - Guitar Duet by Frederic Chopin

This arrangement of Chopin's Mazurka Op 59 No 1 for guitar duet is fairly easy at about grade 3 level. Although the score is notation only, TAB parts are available if needed. It is pretty close to the original and would do nicely in any amateur concert. I hope you enjoy it!...

• The Keys of Canterbury by trad. arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel
• 12 Bar Blues in A by Lisa Marie Gabriel
• Spanish Ballad - Beginner Guitar Duet by trad. arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel

Orchestral/Ensemble

Victoriana - Sleighing on the Lake - Descriptive Canadian Sleigh Drive by John Pridham arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel

I found this gem of Victoriana amongst some old piano sheet music I collected. The original has no date, but I found out that John Pridham was a Devon schoolmaster writing his music around 1858. I was drawn by the cover illustration, then I thought it sounded so happy and typical of the period that I just had to orchestrate it. I have added a few counter melodies to spice it up. There are melodic parts for most instruments. The orchestration is suitable for a small orchestra of intermediate to a...

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Jerusalem - Brass Band by Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

This was written especially for a video I made as a tribute to a community artist friend. You can read about the project on: http://www.squidoo.com/ASecretGarden It was suggested to me that Jerusalem, beginning with a solo cornet, would be appropriate to the community project and photographs I was using so I arranged it myself. It is in the original key so if that creates too many sticky moments for E flat instruments please just let me know and I will tranpose to C and...

The Snakecharmer by anon. arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel

An arrangement for class use, demonstrating ostinati, guitars work really well. Melodic instruments are interchangeable. I used cor anglais and soprano sax for an exotic sound. The song was introduced a century ago by Sol Bloom, a show business promoter who later became a Congressman. He directed the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus. One attraction, A Street In Cairo, included snake charmers, camel rides, and infamous dancers that la...

• Etude (Opus 10 No 3) Frederic Chopin - Guitar Trio with Flute by Frederic Chopin arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel
• The Water Is Wide - Violins, Cello, Flute and Guitar with TAB by Lisa Marie Gabriel
• Ar Hyd Y Nos (All Through The Night) - Duet for Acoustic Guitar and Flute (with TAB) by trad. arr. Lisa Marie Gabriel