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Re: Barrios
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- Subject: Re: Barrios
- From: "Angelo Gilardino" <winter@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 17:18:57 +0100
> -----Messaggio originale----- > Inviato: domenica 19 marzo 2000 15.47 > A: Cguitar-List > Oggetto: RE: Barrios > > All very true. I might add that the whole situation the musical world > (including and going beyong the guitar) is quite different today from what > it was decades ago. Today there is a great deal of interest in "world > music" -- various forms of national/folk music are given much > more respect, > even by "classically"-minded musicians and music lovers, than they were > back then. Ironically, at the same time that this furious argument over > "classical" vs. "bad" music was raging in the guitar world, composers such > as Bartok were much admired for transmuting folk music into "high art." > (Indeed, this practice goes back to Haydn and Beethoven, and even > earlier.) > > Jon Johanning > jjohanning@igc.org As an affectionate reader of all the repertoire of the guitar and as a historian of the guitar music, I can hardly see in any epoque - from the early repertoire of the Baroque guitar to our days - such a "furious argument": the attention given by all the guitarist-composers to popular music (more or less skilfully elaborated in a classical form) runs with almost no exception from the times of Gaspar Sanz to present days: everybody did, including the maestros of the most pure classical style of the first half of 19th century (Giuliani, Carulli, Sor, etc.). Somebody - in his setting of popular songs - reached the top of his art as a guitarist-composer: this is surely the case of Miguel Llobet, with his excellent collection of Catalan Folk Songs which opened a new horizon to the art of composing music for guitar, and Andrés Segovia makes no exception to this tradition, for he set up for guitar on 1941 a collection of "23 Popular Songs from different countries" (recently discovered and published) , without considering how often he encouraged Ponce to deal with Spanish popular songs in his guitar music. Actually, if I would asked who exactly, among guitarist-composers, missed to set up at least one popular song or to take inspiration from popular music even without directly quoting it, all his work through, I could not list, for the last two centuries, more than two names: Giulio Regondi and myself. I have not explored well enough the repertoire of South America popular music to be able to say precisely whether, in the known output by Barrios, we can meet also arrangements of existing popular songs and dances, or only pieces written after original ideas, though inspired to the manners of folk music, as the Danzas Paraguayas, Maxixe, etc. But again, on the evidence of their works, we cannot honestly say that Segovia was less affectionate to popular music elaborated in classical form than Barrios or Llobet. Angelo Gilardino Composer and Editor The Artistic Director of the "Andrés Segovia" Foundation of Spain --- Editor of the series of 20th century guitar music Edizioni Musicali Bèrben --- via Failla, 7 13100 Vercelli Italia tel. & fax 0161-255346 email <winter@net4u.it>
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