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Suite in lute tuning for classical guitar

Classical/Instrumental • 1978 • Alternative Title: Suite in honour of Alonso Mudarra
 
     
 

Suite in lute tuning for classical guitar


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PDF, 265.7 Kb ID: SM-000182113 Upload date: 01 Apr 2013
Instrumentation
Classical guitar
Scored for
Solo
Type of score
For a single performer
Publisher
David W Solomons
Difficulty
Advanced
Duration
5'40
The guitar is tuned with the third string down a semitone (F sharp), like a transposed lute, which provides for some different sonorities as the stopped and unstopped strings follow a slightly different logic from that used in standard classical guitar music. It is reminiscent in places of the music of Alonso Mudarra, a lutenist and vihuelist of the 16th century but the fast movement (heard at the beginning and the end of the suite) is closer to that of ragtime, albeit a somewhat frenetic ragtime.
It can - of course - be used for performance but it might also be useful as an example of scordatura work in a course of guitar lessons
The sound sample is my own performance, recorded on cassette tape several decades ago.
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