Roland Chadwick

24 Preludes

for Spanish Guitar

Book 1

Copyright 2013 Roland Chadwick. All Rights Reserved.

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"Better to go searching for the truth than pretending it isn't there."

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Roland Chadwick

No. 1 in C Major

24 Preludesfor Spanish Guitar

Book 1

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"There is neither good nor bad. Only thinking makes it so."

William Shakespeare

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No. 2 in A Minor

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No. 3 in G Major"It's all made up."

Jenny Obee

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No. 4 in E Minor"This is the heart of the man: this is the heart of the matter;

Break a little bread now; Spread it all around"

Robert Plant

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"Thought is a biological function."

Jonathan MillerRoland Chadwick

No. 5 in D Major

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"As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these, if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generations

I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with it's dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with

it's branching and beautiful ramifications."

Charles Darwin

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No. 6 in B Minor

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"We see the world in terms of what we have seen already"

Susan Greenfield

No. 7 in A Major

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"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's"

William Blake

No. 8 in F# Minor

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"What is known I strip away, I launch all men and women forward with me in to the unknown."

Walt Whitman

No. 9 in E Major

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"life wasn't invented, life wasn't designed. Life created itself, and that really does make the brain hurt."

Roland Chadwick

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No. 10 in C# Minor

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No. 11 in B Major"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price."

John Updike

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No. 12 in G# Minor

"Politics and Religion are obsolete; the time has come for Science and Spirituality"

Pandit Nehru

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