Asturias by Isaac Albeniz (arr. Malcolm Perris)

Asturias is definitely one of the landmark pieces of the Classical gui- tar repertoire with the most famous arrangement by Andres Segovia even though it is presumed to be originally arranged by Severino García Fortea and most likely put in E Minor by Francisco Tarrega.

To arrange Asturias into D minor I have retuned the B String to A to use as the drone note against the lower moving melodic part. I have notat- ed all notes on this string as if it was tuned to B, to make for easier reading, I have notated as much as possible for this occurrence. The low E String is also lowered to D and the notes on this string are no- tated as such.

I hope you enjoy the different emotion and feeling the key of D minor gives to this wonderful piece on the guitar.