Looking for intermediate classical guitar pieces to study? This graded list includes Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th-century repertoire. Some pieces include Good Music Academy editions, free score downloads, fingering notes, or full lessons.
Publisher Key:
Good Music Academy: My Premium Scores, available for immediate download
BG:The Baroque Guitar by Frederick Noad, Ariel Publications
RG:The Renaissance Guitar by Frederick Noad, Ariel Publications
WFS:World's Favorite Solos for Classic Guitar (Vol. 43), ed. Harvey Vinson,Ashley Publications
RCMX: Royal Conservatory of Music, Volume X
SLPR: Six Lute Pieces of the Renaissance, Oscar Chilesotti, ed. Neidle, Columbia Music Co.
Click on column headings to sort by alphabetical, rating, or publication
Piece | Composer | Period | Publication | Difficulty | GMA Resouces |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wilson's Wilde | Anonymous | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Waiting for Dawn | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Vivace | Falckenhagen, Adam | Baroque | Cell | ||
Vals | Calatayud, Bartolomé | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Vaghe belleze et bionde treccie d'oro vedi che per ti moro | Anonymous | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Two Venezuelan Waltzes (El Negrito, La Gatica) | Lauro, Antonio | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Two Minuets, Op. 22 & Op. 25 | Sor, Fernando | Classical | Cell | ||
Tufnell Park | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
The Round Battle Galliard | Dowland, John | Renaissance | Cell | ||
The Night Watch | Holborne, Anthony | Renaissance | Cell | ||
The Long and Winding Road | Lennon, John and Paul McCartney | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
The Current | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Tarleton's Resurrection | Dowland, John | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Suite in D minor | Visee, Robert de | Baroque | Prelude:Le petit livre de guitare, vol. 2 (?, originally in RCM) Menuet I & II, Bourree: WFS | Range: | Cell |
Study No. 3, E minor Arpeggio | Aguado, Dionisio | Classical | Originally in RCM5. Not on IMSLP | Cell | |
Sons de Carilhoes | Pernambuco (Joao Texeira Guimareaes) | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Solidao | Jobim, Antonio Carlo | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Snowflight | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Se io m'accorgo | Anonymous | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Sarabande | Comte d'Logy, aka Jan Antonín Losy (?, originally Johann Anton Logy | Baroque | Cell | ||
Samba do Aviao (Song of the Jet) | Jobim, Antonio Carlo | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Romanza (Spanish Ballad) | Anonymous | Romantic | Score In Progress | ||
Prelude, First Cello Suite (BWV 1007) | Enter your text here... | Baroque | |||
Prelude 4 | Villa Lobos, Heitor | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Prelude 3 | Villa Lobos, Heitor | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Prelude 1 | Villa Lobos, Heitor | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Prelude #1 | Ponce, Manuel | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Prelude | Weiss, Silvius Leopold | Baroque | RCM6 (?, originally RCM4) | Cell | |
Pine Cove | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Pavan | Milan, Luis | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Partita in A minor | Comte d'Logy, aka Jan Antonín Losy (?, originally Johann Anton Logy | Baroque | Range: | Cell | |
Opus 60, No. 7: A minor tremolo (No. 9 in some editions) | Carcassi, Matteo | Classical | Cell | ||
Op. 60, No. 3 in A minor | Carcassi, Matteo | Classical | Cell | ||
Op. 50, No. 23, Grazioso | Giuliani, Mauro | Classical | Cell | ||
Op. 48, No. 5, E minor | Giuliani, Mauro | Classical | Cell | ||
Op. 40, No. 11, Divertimento | Giuliani, Mauro | Classical | Cell | ||
Op. 35, No. 13, (Segovia No. 2) in C major | Sor, Fernando | Classical | Cell | ||
Mrs. Winter's Jump | Dowland, John | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Minuet in G | Anonymous | Baroque | Cell | ||
Lagrima | Tarrega, Francisco | Romantic | Score, Free Mini-Lesson, ECourse Planned | ||
Lady Laiton's Almain | Dowland, John | Renaissance | Cell | ||
King Lotvin | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Julia Florida (Barcarola) | Barrios Mangore, Agustin | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring | Bach, J.S.Bach, J.S. | Baroque | Cell | ||
In Sorrow's Wake | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Here Comes the Sun | Harrison, George | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Hejira | York, Andrew | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Refinger high C♯ & E to 1 & 3. | Cell | |
Gentle Waltz | Katz, Brian | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Gavotte I &II, BWV 995 | Bach, J.S. | Baroque | Cell | ||
Galliard "Can She Excuse" | Dowland, John | Renaissance | RCM8 (?, formerly in RCM6) | Cell | |
Etudes 6, 7, 8, 9 | Brouwer, Leo | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Etudes 1, 3, 4, 5 | Brouwer, Leo | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
El Testament de Amelia | Llobet, Miguel | Romantic | Cell | ||
El Noi de la Mare | Llobet, Miguel | Romantic | Cell | ||
Douze Preludes en Forme d'Etudes | Gagnon, Claude | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Choro: Francaise | Cell | |
Diciotto Partite per chitara | Brescianello, Giuseppe Antonio | Baroque | Range: | Cell | |
Deux Valses | Kleynjans, Francis | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Desafiado | Jobim, Antonio Carlo | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Der Fuggerin Tanz | Neusidler, Melchior | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Courente | Weiss, Silvius Leopold | Baroque | RCM6 (?, originally RCM4) | Cell | |
Cancion O Tocata | Murcia, Santiago de | Baroque | Cell | ||
Canarios | Sanz, Gaspar | Baroque | Cell | ||
Bourree, BWV 996 | Bach, J.S. | Baroque | Cell | ||
Bianco fiore | Negri, Cesare | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Ballet (?, originally Balleto) | Anonymous | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Aria (?, originally Air) | Comte d'Logy, aka Jan Antonín Losy (?, originally Johann Anton Logy | Baroque | Cell | ||
Allmayne | Johnson, Robert | Renaissance | Cell | ||
Allegro in A major | Scarlatti, Dominico | Baroque | Cell | ||
Afro-Cuban Lullaby | Traditional | 20th Century/ Popular/ Latin | Cell | ||
Adelita | Tarrega, Francisco | Romantic | Score Planned |
The Origin of this List
This list dates back to the mid 1990s. Classical Guitar teachers shared the original webpage with each other from the mid-1990s to around 2004, when the webpage went offline. Unfortunately, the original authors didn't have a backup, and the list was presumed lost.
In June of 2021, I did a teaching training with Andrea Cannon, who still has the original website address on her training materials. My first thought was to check the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. I was in luck; the page had been archived.
With the permission of one of the original authors (the other is deceased, I believe), I've republished it here and updated it where possible. Some slight improvements have been made; the columns are sortable (click on the column heading).
Two pieces have been removed as I haven't been able to find current publications: King Dagobert (Anonymous) and Homage to Luis Bonfa (Feggelen)
Please let me know in the comments below if you find any errors.
Original Author's Notes
Jamie Williams Grossman and Richard Tadaki have designed this Intermediate Classical Guitar Repertoire page for those with basic classical guitar skills who are eager to find fun, enjoyable music that is within their intermediate technical range.
Basic classical guitar technique such as rest stroke, free stroke, bar chords, arpeggios, multiple voices, and chords, and knowledge of the fingerboard or the ability to "figure it out" are assumed.
It is impossible to avoid the subjective nature of this page. We have chosen the pieces that we have enjoyed the most over our years of playing and/or teaching that we feel lie within the grasp of an intermediate classical guitar player. We welcome your comments and suggestions. Please let us know which pieces you have enjoyed playing and which you have not. This will assist us in updating the repertoire list from time to time.
We would like to thank all of you who have made suggestions and comments. It is our hope that with these suggestions, the page can continue to develop as a useful resource. We would like to give special thanks to Seth Himmelhoch and Vic Brod for their numerous recommendations to the list (Jan 6, 1998)
Most of the publishing information for our list is included within the list itself, but some anthologies are listed below. It is not our intention to claim that they are "definitive editions;" rather, they are mentioned because so many of you already have them. They have been given abbreviations and listed in this separate section only to save us the trouble of repeatedly typing out the information, and to save space. Most of the pieces in them can be acquired in other sources, or are published individually.
