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- One of Hal Leonard Publications books for 2008 will be a collection of Allan’s pieces for the intermediate guitarist, Mysterioso. These compositions grew out of the need for attractive musical repertoire for the plectrum guitarist. In writing them, Allan thought about the plethora of repertoire books for the young pianist, such as Bach’s “Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach” and Schumann’s “Album for the Young”, and decided to provide the plectrum guitarist with comparable music while addressing many of the guitarists' unique technical challenges. read more►
- In his desire to provide the guitar playing public with new repertoire, Allan has written many compositions for solo guitar. Prominent among these are his ‘rags’, a form of fingerstyle guitar, of which he has been a pioneer. These pieces are born from the conviction that the guitar, being a polyphonic percussion- stringed instrument much like the piano, has the potential to provide melody, rhythm and harmony simultaneously. A culmination of his work with rags is Allan’s book Ragtime Guitar, published by Hal Leonard Publications in 2005, including three of Allan’s own rags as well his his arrangements of eleven class piano rags arranged for guitar. read more►
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