Matthew Grasso's Repertory

Created for the Extended 7-String Guitar

Solo Guitar (7-String) Transcriptions

• Pavane for a Dead Princess – Ravel
• Mother Goose Suite – Ravel
• Symphony No.2 (third movement) – Rachmaninoff
• Adagio for Strings – Barber
• Adagio in G Minor – Albinoni
• Caprices no. 1 and 6 – Paganini
• Chaconne – Bach
• Air on a G-String – Bach
• The Girl with the Flaxen Hair – Debussy
• West Side Story Suite – Bernstein
• Prelude in C#m – Rachmaninoff
• Over the Rainbow – Arlen
• Leyenda – Albeniz
• The Beatles Suite – Lennon/McCartney
• Nimrod – Elgar
• Sicilienne – Von Paradis

Guitar Ensemble Transcriptions

• Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun” – Debussy (guitar duo)
• Reverie – Debussy (guitar duo) (guitar trio)
• Clair de Lune – Debussy (guitar duo) (guitar trio)
• The Sunken Cathedral – Debussy (guitar duo)
• Nocturne – Dvorak (guitar duo)
• Lacrimosa, Confutatis – Mozart (guitar trio)
• Chorale – Grasso (guitar trio)
• Canzonetta – Tchaikovsky (guitar and violin)
• Impresiones Imtimas – Mompou (guitar duo)
• Prelude no.5 – Rachmanioff (guitar duo)
• Hungarian Dance no.5 – Brahms (guitar trio)
• Pavane – Faure (guitar duo) (guitar trio)
• Nadia’s Theme – (guitar trio)
• Theme from Rosemary’s Baby – (guitar trio)
• Entr’Acte – (guitar duo)
• Over the Rainbow – Arlen (guitar trio)

6-String guitar works recreated for the
Extended 7-String Guitar

• Cantabile – Ross Thompson
• Raguette – Dusan Bogdanovic
• Invocation et Danse – Joaquin Rodrigo
• Ruecuredos de la Alambra – Tarrega
• El Colibri – Julio Sagreras
• Four Brief Sketches – Grasso
• Intimate Settings (suite) – Grasso
• Personal Impressions (suite) – Grasso
• Offering – Grasso
• Peace and Joy – Grasso

Matthew Grasso's Compositions

Solo Guitar

• Four Brief Sketches (1994)
• Intimate Settings (suite) (1994)
• Personal Impressions (suite) (1995)
• Meditation #1 (Serenity) (1995)
• Meditation #2 (Shanti) (1996)
• Offering (1996)
• Morning Prayer (1996)
• Peace and Joy (1997)
• Two Compositions for Prepared Guitar (1997)
• Passacaglia (2000)
• Babak’s Raga (2006)
• “Three Contemplations” for 7-string guitar (2007)
• “Contemplation on the Corpse” for 7-String Guitar (2008)
• “Petite Polymetric Suite” for 7-String Guitar (2008)
• “Reflections” for Extended 7-String Guitar (2010)
• “Three Spirits” for National Steel Just Intonation Guitar (2010)
• “Man on Wire” for 12-Course Harp Guitar (2010)

Solo Guitar (Extended 7-string)

• Guitar Concerto for Extended 7-String and Orchestra (2005)
• Polymetric Suite for Extended 7-String Guitar Trio (2006)
• Three Contemplations for Extended 7-String Guitar (2007)
• Contemplation on the Corpse for Extended 7-String Guitar (2008)
• The Petite Polymetric Suite for Extended 7-String Guitar (2008)
• 7th Creation for Extended 7-String Guitar Trio (2008)
• Reflections Suite for Extended 7-String Guitar (2010)

Solo Guitar (6-String)

• Pictures at an Exhibition – Moussorgsky (complete version)

Ensemble

• Indian Raga Take one, for guitar and cello (1992)
• Trio for guitar violin and cello (1992)
• Meditation #3, (for universal tranquility) for guitar quartet (1998)
• Polymetric Suite for Guitar Trio (2006)
• Guitar Concerto for Extended 7-String and Orchestra (2005)
• 7th Creation for Extended 7-String Guitar Trio (2008)
• Raga Iman Kalyan for Women’s Choir (2009)
• Serenade for Strings and 7-String Guitar (2010)
• Settings in a Utopian World for Women’s Choir
  and 14-Note Octave Just Guitar (2010)

Guitarp Music

• Echoes of a Lake (1997)
• A Glitter of Time (2000)

Kotar Music

• The Realization of Tomorrow (1997)
• Journey to Infinity (2000)

Jazz Tunes

• Twin Towers
• Jazz and Jhaptal
• Moksha
• Yiddish-ish
• Lucky Seven

Matthew Grasso's Repertory
for the 25-string Raga Guitar

Ragas (melody forms)

• Lotus Flower
• Miyan Ying
• Garland of Melodies
• Papamagama
• Dipankara
• Ardha Aberi
• Adosa
• Dana

Talas (rhythmic cycles)

• 10 1/2 beats (6, 3, 1 1/2)
• 5 1/2 beats (2, 2, 1 1/2)
• 27 1/2 beats (9 1/2, 7 1/2, 5 1/2, 3 1/2, 1 1/2)