Durand Editions Musicales
Cinq Preludes
For Guitar Solo
The Cinq Preludes By Heitor Villa Lobos Represent The Brazilian Composer's Last Work For Solo Guitar And Were Written In The Summer Of 1940. They Do Not Constitute A Single Cycle, But Rather A Heterogeneous Collection, Similar In Spirit To A Collection Of Pages From An Album, With Each One Developing, In Its Own Individual Way, A Different Stylistic Principle. In Terms Of Instrumental Technique, Heitor Villa Lobos Places The Préludes In A Kind Of Ideal Balance Point Between The Still Nineteenth Century Writing Style Of The Suite Populaire Bresilienne And The Daring Instrumental Experimentation Of The Douze Etudes.
In The Present Edition, The Manifold Editorial Issues Concerning Heitor Villa Lobos' Guitar Music Have Been Affronted By Looking At Of All Of The Sources Available Today: These Efforts Have Thus Enabled Us To Put Together A More Reliable Text Than Those Before It Both In Terms Of The Notes And The Fingerings.
