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One More for
Wallace Hartley

David Crittenden
Published compositions

Two Nocturnes

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two movements for guitar solo
Difficulty level: Difficult

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Whirlwind

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a work for classical or fingerstyle guitar solo
in DADGAD tuning
written in treble clef and tablature
Difficulty level: Fairly difficult

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Greensleeves (What Child is This)

printed music:
an arrangement for guitar solo (in treble-clef notation) which includes passages with three-voice texture, a freely composed variation on the romanesca bassline, and a passage with artificial harmonics.
Difficulty level: Intermediate to fairly difficult

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Perennials

...a collection of seven new compositions for solo guitar... 
The publication includes explanations of musical symbols and occasional 
blank pages to reduce page turns when playing from the bound edition.

Difficulty level: Intermediate

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Bittersweet
Carousel
At Water's Edge
Laurel Lane
Winterscape
Before the Storm
Desert Sky

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Paperback edition $9.00
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Sadko and the Ocean King

A new composition in four movements for solo guitar.
In DADGAD tuning and written in treble clef and tablature.
A programmatic work based on a Medieval Russian poem.

Difficulty level: Difficult

This work was commissioned and premiered by Jeff Lambert.
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Paperback edition $9.99
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Sadko and the Ocean King
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One More for Wallace Hartley

A new composition in for solo guitar
in standard, treble-clef notation.
A musical tribute to the bandleader
aboard the Titanic when it sank in1912.

Difficulty level: Difficult

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Prelude and Dance was suggested by Twin Cities guitar enthusiast David Svea who was looking for something slightly off the beaten path of the largely Nineteenth-Century student repertoire that he had been studying. In this piece I sought a middle ground that students and advanced players could enjoy.
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Bob and Laura Owen commissioned me to compose From A Distant Fiddle for their talented daughter, Alanna, who premiered it in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This piece owes much to an American folk tradition that is rooted in the folk music of Ireland and Scotland.
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These two solo works were published by Amoriello Guitar Publications and are available from Theodore Front Musical Literature. Inc.

Alfred Publishing is scheduled to release three of my guitar quartets in 2009. Variations on La Folia, The Fading Shore, and Prelude and Fugue were premiered by students of Alan Johnston at the Suzuki Association of the Americas conference in Minneapolis in 2006.