Sor | Fantasia on a favourite Scottish air, Op 40 for solo guitar | DL

TECLA X 10112
Sor | Fantasia on a favourite Scottish air, Op. 40 for solo guitar
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*This title is one of 62 guitar solos by Fernando Sor available individually as a PDF download.

Sor’s Variations on a favourite Scottish air op. 40 (“Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon”) have caught the imagination of the guitar world in recent years, and are well on their way to becoming a standard part of the guitar repertory. They used to be little known, and my performance of them on BBC Scotland in 1972 was probably the first for very many years.

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I suggest that the piece not be played too fast. The melody is a strathspey, and Burns’ words are sad: “How can ye chant, ye little birds, and I sae weary fu’ o’ care!” Yet at the same time, the sorrow is dignified by the stately dance form, so that the pace must be kept steady and unfaltering. The “Scotch hop” of the theme is echoed at the end of the piece.

The melody on which the variations are based is an old one, perhaps English in origin, to which Robert Burns wrote words which were published in volume 4 of the Scots Musical Museum in 1792, and from then on the melody was inextricably associated with Scotland. In setting such a melody, Sor played his part in the fascination of his age with Scotland and with Scottish music.

This edition comes from Sor’s New Complete Works for Guitar edited by Brian Jeffery.

Paperbound books are also available separately for worldwide shipment, either as individual volumes or as the complete eleven volume set:

Volume 1: guitar solos op. nos. 1 through 9 (contains Op. 6)

Volume 2: guitar solos op. nos. 10 through 16 and works without opus number

Volume 3: guitar solos op. nos. 17 through 25

Volume 4: guitar solos op. nos. 26 through 32

Volume 5: guitar solos op. nos. 33 through 43

Volume 6: guitar solos op. nos. 44 through 52

Volume 7: guitar solos op. nos. 54 through 60 and appendix: Meditación

Volume 8: seven guitar duets in score, op. nos. 34 to 53

Volume 9: six guitar duets in score, op. nos. 54 bis to 63 and the Bolero a Duo

Volume 10: the Guitar 1 parts for all of the thirteen duets

Volume 11: the Guitar 2 parts for all of the thirteen duets

All 11 Volumes: the 11 volume set

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