"Meditation of Thais" for guitar (played twice)

Not really written for the guitar, it's a beautiful piece for the violin, from the opera "Thais," by Jules Massenet. I played it twice - the first time is a bit better than the second time, I think. As a violin piece, it is played very slowly, with lots of feeling - there are some great videos of it on YouTube. The guitar arrangement is by Axel Nielsen from a little book published in Denmark, called "Melodihaefte for Solo Guitar." It's long out of print. The arrangement doesn't have tablature.

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Music

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• Meditation
• Thais
• Jules
• Massenet

[archegui]

beautiful!

[philipglaser]

@archegui Many thanks - glad you liked it. Be sure to see Sarah Chang play it on the violin - it's also on YouTube.

Philip

[freescorepaul]

Smooth out a couple rough edges and you'll have this one down pat. Who needs a violin? This sounds beautiful on your guitar alone. Best wishes from Pittsburgh!

Paul

[philipglaser]

@freescorepaul "Rough edges?" You'll hear from my lawyer. :-)

Philip

[AzeriMagicStrings]

Good job!

[philipglaser]

@AzeriMagicStrings Many thanks for the kind words.

Philip

[veritasisle]

If "we" can find the sheet music or a scan of the music from the book by Axel Nielsen I can certainly create the tab

[1dillontaylor]

great job.. i want to play this piece so bad. I would love to see the transcription