Jonathan Godfrey
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Christmas Eve (Sarajevo) (2016)
Four or three part guitar ensemble
Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
Single movement, 4'30
My most requested arrangement -- the crowd-pleasing perfect ensemble piece for students during the holiday season. Has been performed in both large guitar ensemble and quartet configurations.
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Auld Lang Syne (2022)
Four-Part Guitar Ensemble + Tenor Sax (or other melody instrument - non-transposed bass and treble melody included)
Difficulty: Easy
3'
Written as a simple, lush chorale for guitar ensemble to accompany a melody instrument. Perfect for holiday concerts. Premiered by the State College of Florida Guitar Ensemble, Christmas 2022.
Sonatina (2010)
solo
Difficulty: Advanced
Three movements, 15'00
Grand prize winner of the 2012 Boston GuitarFest Composition competition and written for Serbian virtuoso Nemanja Ostojic.
Available for purchase at Clear Note Publications:
https://www.clearnote.net/Sonatina-for-Guitar-by-Jonathan-Godfrey-eBook_p_1231.html
El noi de la mare (Catalan Carol) (2017)
SSA Choir + Guitar
Difficulty: Easy-Moderate
Single movement, 4'00
This beautiful carol was made popular for solo guitar by Miguel Llobet. His arrangement provides inspiration for this choral setting. Ideal for either woman's chorus or for young voices.
Florida Man (2022)
5-string Banjo, Three-part Guitar Ensemble, Bass instrument (unspecified)
Difficulty: Guitars and bass easy, banjo moderate
Three movements, 4'30
A bluegrass-inspired crowd-pleaser designed for a student guitar ensemble led by a banjo soloist about everyone's favorite anti-hero -- Florida Man.
Movements:
I. Charged with Assault with a Deadly Weapon After Throwing Alligator Through Wendy's Drive-Thru Window
II. Trapped in Unlocked Closet for Two Days
III. Takes Golf Cart on Wild Ride Through Walmart
Gulf Stream (2018)
Guitar solo
Difficulty: Advanced
Single movement, 3'00-4'00
A country-inspired solo guitar work in homage to two completely disparate guitar idols - Roland Dyens and Tim Reynolds
Lux Aurumque - Eric Whitacre
(arranged for solo guitar) (2017)
Solo guitar arrangement of one of the most performed modern contemporary choral works written for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay.
Sheet music is available for this work, but it is protected by Copyright. For inquiries, please use the contact form.
Moon Migration (2018)
Flute + Four-part guitar ensemble
Difficulty: Moderate
Single movement, 4'30
This evocative and rhythmically vivacious work single-movement work tells the story of a British scientist that posited that birds migrate to the moon. Ideal for guitar ensembles with players comfortable with pick-style strumming.
Okeechobee
(Concerto for Plectrum Banjo and Orchestra) (2020)
3(III=picc)222/4231/timp.perc(2)/bjo/strings
Difficulty: Moderate (orchestra); Advanced (plectrum banjo)
Single movement, 8'00
This single-movement, crowd-pleasing orchestral work evokes the swampy inlands of Florida. The banjo part is written in "Chicago-style" tuning (DGBe) and is designed to be played by a pick-style guitarist. Commissioned by the Bradenton Symphony Orchestra, it was written for the community orchestra in mind.
The First Noel (2018)
Guitar and cello
Difficulty: Moderate
Single movement, 4'00
Simple arrangement of the classical Christmas Carol, ideal for Christmas services and concerts.
Tunguska (2019)
Guitar quartet
Difficulty: Advanced
Single movement, 5'00
Honorable mention in the 2019 Austin Classical Guitar Society Ensemble Composition Competition, this tone-poem evokes the Siberian wilderness that was the backdrop for the 1908 "Tunguska Event," in which a meteoroid instantly decimated hundreds of miles of forest.