Ellen Whitaker is a composer, arranger and teacher living in Durham, North Carolina. She has been teaching guitar and music theory since 1981.
Please visit her website at www.ellenwhitakerguitar.com
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Print: $19.96 Download: $6.50 A beautiful variety of traditional Jewish melodies arranged for classical or fingerstyle guitar. 20 solos and 6 duets. Sephardic, Yiddish, Israeli and Oriental folk songs, as well as Chassidic tunes, Klezmer tunes and music originally sung by Cantors. Intermediate and advanced level, with a few pieces included that can be enjoyed also by less experienced players. Annotations and Performance Notes for each piece, providing historical and/or cultural perspective as well as technical guidance. An Appendix (with Glossary) discusses in considerable detail Jewish scales and modes. A Bibliography and Discography are provided for those who would like to learn more about these beautiful and enduring musical traditions.
Recommended by Judith Pinnolis of Brandeis University as “...an excellent book of guitar arrangements of Jewish favorite melodies”… “The thoroughness of this work is to be admired... JMWC recommends this book not only to individuals, but to teachers, schools and colleges for purchase.”
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Print: $6.85 Download: $3.75 Solo guitar arrangement of Shalom Aleichem, one of the most popular arrangements found in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. You may purchase it separately here, complete with annotation and performance notes. Three pages of music in standard notation, plus one page of text. Intermediate and advanced players will enjoy this arrangement.
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Print: $9.48 Download: $3.75 Three original repertoire pieces suitable for intermediate classical or fingerstyle guitarists. The pieces are lyrical and lend themselves well to the self-expression of the performer. Each piece is two pages long and is comfortable to play, being written in a style that is idiomatic to the guitar. Performance notes are included.
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Print: $8.18 Download: $3.75 Four all-time favorite Christmas songs arranged for solo guitar. The Little Drummer Boy, Silent Night, What Child is This?, O Holy Night. Easy to intermediate level.
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Print: $8.13 Download: $3.75 Guitar Duet, score. An enjoyable easy intermediate level arrangement for two guitars. Four pages of music and one page of performance notes. Both parts of this duet carry the melody at times and both parts are interesting and fun to play. Tres Hermanicas is a traditional Sephardic song. Songs of the Sephardim, sung in Ladino, have been preserved and passed down orally by the descendants of Jews who, for their unwillingness to convert to Catholicism, were expelled from Spain in 1492. This arrangement can also be found in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker.
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Print: $6.85 Download: $3.75 An arrangement for Solo Guitar of Adio Querida, a traditional Sephardic song. This arrangement includes three pages of music in standard notation and a page of text (Performance Notes, Annotation, and song text in Ladino and English).
The arrangement will be enjoyable for classical and fingerstyle guitarists with intermediate or advanced skills. This arrangement, found also in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" is in the key of D minor, using dropped-D tuning, and is rich in polyphony.
Adio Querida has been passed down through generation after generation and remains one of the most popular songs from the Judeo-Spanish tradition.
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Print: $6.80 Download: $1.25 Easy-intermediate level arrangement for Solo Guitar of the very familiar opening section of Kol Nidre. One page of music plus one page of annotation.
Kol Nidre is perhaps the most well-known piece of music associated with the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kipur. This arrangement can also be found in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen S. Whitaker.
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Print: $8.98 Download: $3.75 Solo Guitar arrangement of Dona Dona as it appears in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. Three pages of music plus one page of text, annotation and performance notes. Easy intermediate level. Dona Dona was written for the Yiddish Theater in 1940 (with music by Shalom Secunda and text by Aaron Zeitlin). It became popular among folk singers and was recorded by Joan Baez, Theodore Bikel and others.
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Print: $7.94 Download: $2.50 Solo guitar arrangement of Shabes Shabes as it appears in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. Two pages of music plus one page of annotation and performance notes. Easy Intermediate Level.
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Print: $7.94 Download: $2.50 Solo Guitar arrangement of Dodi Li as it appears in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. Two pages of music, plus one page of text (annotation and performance notes). Easy intermediate level.
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Print: $10.77 Download: $5.00 Guitar Duet, score. Eight pages of music and one page of text (performance notes and annotation). Firn Di Mekhutonim Aheym is a Klezmer tune perfect for weddings or just for fun. This arrangement is also found in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. Intermediate level.
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Print: $7.94 Download: $2.50 Guitar Duet, score. Easy Intermediate arrangement of Hashiveinu. Arranged as a three voice canon for two guitars, the piece begins low, with a range of just a fifth, and then builds in intensity as the range gradually opens, encompassing four octaves on page 2. Each player gets two voices at times, making both parts interesting to play. Two pages of music plus one page of text (performance notes and annotation). This arrangement is also found in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker.
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Print: $7.94 Download: $2.50 Solo guitar arrangement of Kadesh Ur'chatz, a traditional oriental song for Passover. This arrangement appears also in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. It will be enjoyable for intermediate guitarists. Two pages of music plus one page of text (annotation and performance notes).
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Print: $7.94 Download: $2.50 Solo guitar arrangement of Baruch Elohenu, a traditional Chassidic tune, as it appears in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen Whitaker. Two pages of music plus one page of text (performance notes and annotation). Intermediate level.
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Print: $8.08 Download: $2.50 Solo guitar arrangement of "Eili Eili," as it appears in "Jewish Traditions for Classical and Fingerstyle Guitar" by Ellen S. Whitaker. Two pages of intermediate level guitar music, plus one page of text (annotation and performance notes).
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