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A Season of LightA Season of Light (book)

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30 carols and songs arranged and composed by Frank Wallace for solo finger-style (classical) guitar. Range of difficulty is easy to difficult and style are from Middle Ages to modern.

TriptychTriptych (book)

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Originally a short “unfinished” work from 2001, Triptych was substantially expanded with two new movements in the winter of 2007 for The Back Bay Guitar Trio, and Italian guitarist Gianluca Tremendo. The piece is a fable in three movements of the journey of the composer’s mother’s departing soul: Dolor de Amor, Levantéme and ¡Ay! Linda Amiga. Themes weave throughout the three movements, the final section being a set of variations on a memorable four-part song given to the composer and his trio by the organist of the ancient Catalan town of Cardona, on a walking/singing tour though the Catalan Pyrenees the summer of 1979. The first and last movements are in a sweet tonal style while the middle movement is a “minimalist” canon, which undulates through chordal clashes and slow resolutions including many overlapping and varying groups of 16th notes.

The Great DeepThe Great Deep (book)

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The Great Deep, eight songs on life’s final journey, for tenor (high voice) and ten-string guitar (also available for piano), was inspired by the book "Old Age" by Helen M. Luke. It is a beautiful meditation on the subject thru the eyes of an aging female scholar as she talks of Homer’s Odyssey, Shakespeare’s King Lear and The Tempest, and T. S. Eliot’s Little Gidding. The songs are: 1. The glory that we knew Walter James Turner 2. For whom the bell tolls John Donne 3. Vital spark of heavenly flame Alexander Pope 4. Music, when soft voices die Percy Bysshe Shelley 5. Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley 6. When I am dead, my dearest Christina Georgina Rossetti 7. Our revels now are ended William Shakespeare 8. Rain, rain, and sun! Alfred, Lord Tennyson