Originally Posted by
Jimmy blue note
Classical guitar has always had a strain running through it that was very integral with the instrument itself. Villa Lobos's preludes are SO idiomatic of the natural characteristics of the guitar that I see them as liberating vehicles in really getting to know the instrument and its strengths. Augustin Barrios Mangore was one of the most important composers of the repertoire, a mainstay in some communities with a huge output, and his compositions, as complicated as they could be, are firmly rooted in the reach and instrumental forms of the guitar itself, and interestingly enough, he was not literate. He played those pieces by his inspired memory and the familiarity of the instrument on an intimate level, and somebody else had to actually write them down into manuscript form. Isaac Albanez is one of the MOST guitaristic composers, yet HE wrote for piano, imitating the sound and feel of the spanish guitar in dedication to Spanish cities, yet what comes to us are guitar transcriptions of piano interpretations of guitar music as a sound (get your head around that).
There is a beautiful and native resonance inherent to the guitar as an instrument. Once you find your own personal net and filter, what transcends the genre is the instrument and the player. That's what I hear here.
Thanks for this Mark
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