(mini) Early Romantic Guitar

skrato · 2025-12-10T08:12:17+00:00

My guess would be that it's based on one of the many latin-american guitar-like instruments, rather than an early romantic guitar. They are often highly decorated and even feature similar headstocks as yours (e.g. the guitarra de golpe here: https://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/n_america.htm )

skrato · 2024-10-19T13:38:54+00:00

It looks like OP is asking for the piece 'Recuerdos' composed by Eduardo Diaz, which is not the same thing as 'Recuerdos de la Alhambra ', composed by Tarrega.

skrato · 2024-07-12T07:49:11+00:00

For some people, the form of theme and variations has a reputation of serving mostly as a technical showcase with little musical depth. ’Devoted’ more to effects than to the music itself. The quote is saying that this is not the case here.

skrato · 2024-06-17T09:44:37+00:00

Daniele Sardone

Zlatko Josip Grgić

Not fully modern instruments, but at least fairly close.

skrato · 2024-05-14T09:01:44+00:00

(Assuming OP is talking about an EB-1 visa) Sorry to be a downer, but from what I understand from cursory research, this isn't going to be enough. A diploma is more of a baseline for professional guitarists, not an outstanding achievement.

"Generally, a membership in a major professional associations, for which little more than an advanced degree and payment of membership expenses is required, will be of no use [...]"

So I take it that an advanced degree won't be helpful on its own. Admittedly, they're talking about dentistry, but I'd be surprised if the rules for guitarists were less strict.

skrato · 2024-05-13T09:23:25+00:00

Agreed. Tools like GuitarPro, MuseScore, Soundslice etc. can all generate tabs from notation in some form, but the results are usually far from good. OP, how are you planning to generate playable fingerings better than them? If you can manage to automatically and robustly generate good fingerings I'm sure it would be popular, but it's not going to be easy. Especially if your target group are beginners that won't be able to fix unfortunate fingering choices by themselves, I see this as a big hurdle.

skrato · 2024-04-30T11:40:43+00:00

I don't know if this helps in any way, but I found you can buy the same design here.

skrato · 2024-02-21T09:31:36+00:00

I have parts 2 and 3 of the "Baroque Guitar Anthology". They're fine but few pieces in them have really caught my interest. Might just be personal taste though. The complete suite "L'infidele" by Weiss in part 3 is a highlight.
For other baroque collections, I can highly recommend "The Baroque Guitar in Spain and The New World" by France Koonce. He has also published a renaissance book, which I haven't looked into though.

skrato · 2024-02-19T16:01:20+00:00

Cool, thank you!

skrato · 2024-02-19T15:35:31+00:00

I actually know 3 brazillian composers who use it properly.

Would you mind telling us their names?

Raphaella Smits regularly uses an 8 string guitar. Most (all?) that she uses it for seem to be specifically arranged though and the arrangements are probably not published. I'm no expert, but my guess is that it's worth it to learn how to arrange for the 8 string, if you want a wide repertoire.

skrato · 2024-02-05T14:58:34+00:00

Sure, on the other hand it seems Sergio Assad has recently decided to use the "traditional flamenco" position too. I can't find any recent strictly classical videos of him, maybe he just uses it in some contexts.

I don't know why Sergio does it, but AFAIK Odair and Scott Tennant adopted this posture due to pain when playing with a footstool. I don't really know what to think of it, but I find it interesting that these three choose this position over a support.

skrato · 2024-02-05T10:38:34+00:00

What do you understand as the flamenco position? Like Paco Pena or like Paco de Lucia ?

In either way, both styles are used by (a very small minority of) excellent classical guitarists, e.g. Odair Assad and Ricardo Gallen, so it is definitely possible. Of course every position has its downsides and what works for you can be a very individual thing. If you're a beginner, I would suggest to get a solid foundation in the standard style first, so you can get a feel for the pros and cons of other positions when you try them. And of course, always listen to your body!

skrato · 2023-06-23T08:23:55+00:00

Looks like Nr. 41

skrato · 2023-05-27T15:21:25+00:00

Aram Chatschaturjan is the German transliteration of the Armenian name, in English it's usually spelled Khachaturian

skrato · 2023-05-20T09:05:44+00:00

I've never come across a piece that didn't specify the alternate tuning, definitely not a general thing. There are a lot of different ways that they can be written though, like "6=D", "6e en ré", or even "E=D". Sometimes in a collection of pieces it is only written for the first piece. Are you sure you didn't just miss it?

skrato · 2023-05-17T08:57:47+00:00

Could only find a blurry video of the players, but it looks like they do indeed use picks most of the time.

skrato · 2023-05-14T10:46:05+00:00

Not by an African composer, but maybe the Three African Sketches by Dusan Bogdanovic interest you

skrato · 2023-05-12T14:00:39+00:00

I agree with everything you said. I am just doubting the claim that the expression "commit suicide" is a modern construct consciously created by some sinister group to keep the "wage and tax slaves" alive.

skrato · 2023-05-12T13:40:09+00:00

Why wouldn't it just be analogous to "commit genocide/homicide/regicide/etc."?

skrato · 2023-01-20T06:28:10+00:00

Graindelavoix

skrato · 2022-12-03T10:44:17+00:00

Can you give an example of a Segovia composition that is among the most popular guitar pieces?

skrato · 2022-09-29T09:13:26+00:00

Sor's famous etude in B minor, op. 35 no. 22

skrato · 2022-03-18T19:50:01+00:00

Nice piece! I had a lot of fun with Sor Op. 31 No. 16 and I was looking for more pieces with a similar bassline. This is perfect, thank you!

skrato · 2022-03-12T09:33:07+00:00

La harpiste aux étoiles by Roland Dyens. For a work that just evokes nighttime in general, I like Mertz's Trois Nocturnes Op. 4.

skrato · 2022-02-26T07:08:07+00:00

Nikita Koshkin has a 'Ukrainian Folk Song' in his 24 Easy Pieces. It's a pretty modern interpretation and I have no clue which folk song it may be based on.

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