Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 - Aria

Voice and Guitar

By Heitor Villa-Lobos

This is a must own work for any guitarist who wants to play classical music with other musicians. This work is originally for 8 cellos and is very popular. Musicians of different instruments often ask me if I can play this with them. You really should own two copies unless...

you plan to read from the same score. The music is only written in score form with no separate parts. Villa-Lobos apparently arranged this work - which is super cool. Buy this today.

A good combo here. Guitar is not especially hard to play and the last page is an almost repeat of 1st page. Right voice = beautiful but high voice or flute really hurt my ear...Am looking for cello/guitar combo sheet music

To clarify confusion over whether this arrangement has a separate vocal line--yes, actually it does. The piece is written for voice with guitar accompaniment. All guitar music is written on the treble clef, so the accompaniment is the lower staff and the singer is supposed to sing the top...

staff on an "ah" which is also indicated in the music. It's possible for two guitars to play this piece as a duet, but the top line is the vocal line.

The music is wonderful. The print is a tad grainy and gray. In response to the other review: No, there is not supposed to be a separate score for voice. That would actually be very unusual.

A beautiful peace of music. Was there supposed to be a separate part for the voice?