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Re: Bach/ Chacoone
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- Subject: Re: Bach/ Chacoone
- From: "Angelo Gilardino" <winter@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 08:00:41 +0100
From: "Michael Stitt" To: cguitar-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: Bach/ Chacoone Date sent: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 20:07:20 PST > > >Thank you for raising the point that Segovia did, of course, begin his > st= > >udy of > >the Chaconne many years before presenting the work in public; > > I have an interesting theory which I would like to add to this > discussion, but is a bit on a tangent. > > Over the years I have played the Chaconne in the key of D minor like every > mainstream classical guitarist does coming from the Segovia line of > training. I became quite idsallusioned with the harmony add-ons of the > Segovia/ Schott edition and resorted to undertaking a more simplistic > approah and progressing on to the whole Partita to obtain the sense of the > wholistic approach to the works conception. More recently I began playing > the work in the key of E minor and was pleasantly surprised how much more > idiomatic it sounded on the classical guitar. Forexample the Tonic and > dominant are E and B respectively which are both open notes. One gets > away from the awkward hand stretches of the D minor key. > > Now my theory is this: I wonder if Segovia had given thought to the doing > this but was thinking that the transcription, in itself for guitar, was a > long stretch, without resorting to chnages to key. I have no hard > evidence of this, but it is something which I have thought about for > sometime. Any thoughts on this? > > Incidently, I have been playing the Partita in the key of G which fits > reasonably nicely on my Renaissance lute. ;-) > > Regards, > > Michael Stitt > The Argentinian guitarist-composer Antonio Sinopoli (1878-1964) was the first transcriber who published Bach's Chaconne in E minor. It was included in a "Suplemento al Metodo de guitarra Aguado-Sinopoli" published by Ricordi, Buenos Aires. This "suplemento" was a volume a part and I bought it in the fifties, 1957 or so. May be it is still either in print or in catalogue. I am sure that somebody else did the Chaconne in E minor, but at the moment I fail to remember who. Of course, if you play the piece in E, it sounds stronger and more brilliant. There are passages which become easier and other which get harder - at the end, it is a matter of personal taste. Segovia surely knew of the E minor Chaconne, but for his style, his D minor version was the right thing to do. A.G. Angelo Gilardino Composer and Editor The Artistic Director of the "Andrés Segovia" Foundation of Spain 13100 Vercelli, Italy via Failla, 7 tel. & fax * 39 0161 255346 email <winter@net4u.it> http://www.planet.it/jcg/composer/gilardin.htm
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