Playing the Lisbon Portuguese Guitarra by Ronald Louis Fernandez (continued)
Section 10b. Fado Corrido Maior de Reynaldo Varella (1925)-- a written transcription of his music by Ronald Fernandez.
This piece is a set of 10 variations based on the structure of Fado Corrido Maior which is a Fado Corrido played in a major key. 



See below the music transcription for more information.










Information about Fado Corrido Maior


This piece is from Reynaldo Varella's Methodo para Aprender a tocar Guitarra Portugueza Sem auxilio de professor (Method to Learn to play the Portuguese Guitarra without a teacher) published in 1925.The original title was "Variações em tom maior". The structure of this piece is very similar to the Fado Menor de Reynaldo Varella in Section 10a: there are 10 sections, most sections have a 2 chord harmony, the melodies have similar arpeggio and scale patterns.

See Section 10a, Fado Menor de Reynaldo Varella, for information on Reynaldo Varella, a list of his compositions 






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