70 Bach Chorales for Easy Classical Guitar

70 Bach Chorales for Easy Classical Guitar by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Arranged by Mark Phillips. For Guitar. Easy Guitar. Softcover with CD. Guitar tablature. 76 pages. Published by Cherry Lane Music.

In the early 1700s, Bach's chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of “common practice” harmony and voice leading. And by virtue of their sublime beauty, musicians continue to perform the chorales to this day. The four-part texture of the chorales can make their performance on guitar – with its fingering limitations – somewhat problematic. But by sometimes thinning the texture to three or two parts, and sometimes inverting the lower parts (allowing the alto or tenor to temporarily serve as the bass), we've created easy-to-play classical guitar solos that capture all the interest and beauty of Bach's original compostitions.

Song List:

• Alle Menschen mussen sterben (All Men Must Die) 
• Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Her' (Only To God on High Be Glory!) 
• Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (Only in Thee, Lord Jesus Chris) 
• Alles ist an Gottes Segen (Everything Is on God's Blessing Dependent) 
• Auf, auf, mein Herz, und du mein ganzer Sinn (Up, Up, My Heart and Thou My Entire Being) 
• Auf meinen lieben Gott (In My Dear God) 
• Christ lag in Todesbanden (Christ Lay in the Bonds of Death) 
• Christe, du Beistand deiner Kreuzgemeine (Christ, Thou Support of Thy Followers) 
• Da der Herr Christ zu Tische sass (As Lord Christ Was at Supper) 
• Das alte Jahr vergangen ist (The Old Year Has Passed Away) 
• Das walt' mein Gott (My Lord Grant It!) 
• Die Wollust dieser Welt (The Pleasure of This World) 
• Du grosser Schmerzensmann (Thou Great Man of Sorrow) 
• Du, o schones Weltgebaude (Thou, O Fair Universe) 
• Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt (All Mankind Fell In Adam's Fall) 
• Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (A Stronghold Is Our God) 
• Erbarm dich mein, o Herre Gott (Have Mercy on Me, O Lord God)
• more.