But didn't Segovia highly encourage composers, even those who did not know how to play the guitar, to write for the guitar? Besides, there are lots of great guitar pieces from non-guitarist composers out there.
Usually all it took was to befriend a guitarist. Castelnuovo-Tedesco was a pianist, ditto with Ginastera whose sonata is an impeccable gift to the instrument. They wrote for Segovia. It's a good thing he didn't say no to them. Hell, Segovia transcribed the Chaconne and Bach didn't play guitar lol. Segovia's actions don't match his words, it seems.
How wrong he was! Britten, Lindberg, Tippett, Ginastera, Peixinho, and so many others! I am a composer and I play the guitar, so, I am not suspect in praising these composers who were not guitarrists but wrote wonderfull guitar music nonetheless! :)
I suspect the idea is that if you don’t play the guitar it will be difficult to know what is reasonably playable and what is not, which has nothing to do with how palatable the result might be. Here the proof is in the pudding: you can look at the score and listen to the performance. Manifestly, the piece is eminently playable by a sufficiently skilled guitarist. Whether you actually like the piece is another matter entirely.
because berio is famous the thought is hat he can also compose a good guitar piece. this is not a good piece, it sounds like its composed in twenty minutes and after that a good guitarist has tried to polish it up to something reasonable.
We all have been learned by society and family to hear specific pieces and say "this is good and this is bad". Actually, nothing is good or bad, people invented this terms. Why major is "happy"? It isn't, we just learned to say that major is happy. So, yes this is music. It has written by a very educated composer.
Yes, this is music. If you can not percept the variations, the harmony, the rhythms, don’t say that things doesn’t exist in this piece or in any other vanguard piece. Thank you.
Hergest the Red dont forget that those art school degenerates might have found something valuable in this so-called garbage. And if you pretend to be a meloman just listening to Bach, instead of understanding the whole evolution of the music, who is more degenerated? Maybe that's you, who spit venom instead of wisdom.
It's a very rhytthmic piece with quite a lot of repetition of motifs and figuration, and variations on established motif. You have pretty much no idea what you're saying.
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Bravissimo! è una lettura consapevole e perfettamente mirata.
Thanks for the effort with the score! Interesting!
Beautiful.
oddly sounds idiomatic
The composer is very famous so this sumptuous shit is necessarily sacred without possible dispute.
Máster...
Mauro Giuliani Come back please... my ears hurt
A well known guitarist said that you can not compose music for guitar if you don’t play it. You were right Mr Segovia
But didn't Segovia highly encourage composers, even those who did not know how to play the guitar, to write for the guitar? Besides, there are lots of great guitar pieces from non-guitarist composers out there.
Usually all it took was to befriend a guitarist. Castelnuovo-Tedesco was a pianist, ditto with Ginastera whose sonata is an impeccable gift to the instrument. They wrote for Segovia. It's a good thing he didn't say no to them. Hell, Segovia transcribed the Chaconne and Bach didn't play guitar lol. Segovia's actions don't match his words, it seems.
This piece is way more interesting than Segovia's boring compositions
How wrong he was! Britten, Lindberg, Tippett, Ginastera, Peixinho, and so many others! I am a composer and I play the guitar, so, I am not suspect in praising these composers who were not guitarrists but wrote wonderfull guitar music nonetheless! :)
I suspect the idea is that if you don’t play the guitar it will be difficult to know what is reasonably playable and what is not, which has nothing to do with how palatable the result might be. Here the proof is in the pudding: you can look at the score and listen to the performance. Manifestly, the piece is eminently playable by a sufficiently skilled guitarist. Whether you actually like the piece is another matter entirely.
This sounds hilarious as a pianist
lots of rubato on this one....
playing this requires an excellent technique, however, the piece is horrible in my opinion.
not for me this
una basura
because berio is famous the thought is hat he can also compose a good guitar piece.
this is not a good piece, it sounds like its composed in twenty minutes and after that a good guitarist has tried to polish it up to something reasonable.
This is music? horrible, there is no melody, no variation, no harmony, no rhythm. which are the three main elements of music.
but what is rhythm, harmony and melody? if you fail to explain this, you can not bring an argument to say that this is not music
We all have been learned by society and family to hear specific pieces and say "this is good and this is bad". Actually, nothing is good or bad, people invented this terms. Why major is "happy"? It isn't, we just learned to say that major is happy. So, yes this is music. It has written by a very educated composer.
Yes, this is music. If you can not percept the variations, the harmony, the rhythms, don’t say that things doesn’t exist in this piece or in any other vanguard piece. Thank you.
Hergest the Red dont forget that those art school degenerates might have found something valuable in this so-called garbage. And if you pretend to be a meloman just listening to Bach, instead of understanding the whole evolution of the music, who is more degenerated? Maybe that's you, who spit venom instead of wisdom.
It's a very rhytthmic piece with quite a lot of repetition of motifs and figuration, and variations on established motif. You have pretty much no idea what you're saying.