SKU: UT.CH-157

ISBN 9790215320369. 9 x 12 inches.

Vals d'la Masca; Il racconto della Montagna; Sequenze sotterranee

The Alpinia Suite was commissioned and composed for the festival <> and is dedicated to my friend and colleague Elio Galvagno. It was performed for the first time on August 30, 2011, in the Church of San Giovanni in Saluzzo, by an ensemble of professional and student guitarists from all over Europe. This piece was written to commemorate the first ascent of mount Monviso, by William Mathews, Frederick Jacomb, Jean Baptiste Croz and Michel Croz, exactly 150 years before, on August 30, 1861.
The first movement is a small Waltz. I imagined a Masca (a sort of alpine pixie, a teasing sprite), dancing all around the house and playing tricks, mostly harmless and funny. The Masca is a legendary and very important character in the folklore of my valleys, and all rationally inexplicable events of everyday life are ascribed to her - such as objects that cannot be found anymore, holes in flour sacks, salt in sugar bowls...
The next two movements are a homage to the Mountains. The Tale is a sort of journal, a bright and peaceful chronicle of a hike uphill, in which the beauty of the place is highlighted by an easy harmony and a sweet melody. After this, Underground sequences evokes that same world in a darker and nocturnal way; the faster pace and the choice of repeated and varying patterns are meant to show the transformation of the former environment into something more complex and tormented. Here mountains are a metaphor of human life, warts and all: their sundrenched slopes and their green pasture grasslands, but also their icy and dangerous northern sides, which demand calm, training and caution.
(G. Signorile).

SKU: M7.KC-2008

ISBN 9782848580135. English French Spanish.

The legendary figures of Antonio Lauro and Alirio Diaz are monuments of the Venezuelan spirit. It is important to remember the extraordinary course of fortune which brought together Antonio Lauro and Alirio Diaz - a great Composer and a great virtuoso who inspired each other with their creativity. This interaction was vital in the success of this wonderful Music, born of their common cultural heritage and presented to the world through the extraordinary talents of Alirio Diaz, the greatest performer of Lauro's guitar works. It is difficult not to draw parallels between this relationship and that Andrés Segovia with Manuel Ponce or Julian Bream with Benjamin Britten and William Walton.

SKU: BT.MUSMS0307

Spanish.

Todo guitarrista necesita en un momento dado de su progresión, dominar un m nimo de nociones teóricas. Para poder leer, comprender y seguir una partitura. Para conocer el mástil de la guitarra y las notas que lo componen. Para aprender a tocar los acordes, las escalas, los modos y los arpegios. Para dominar todas las nociones de orden r tmico. Para componer. Para improvisar. En resumidas cuentas... para ser músico. Entonces si usted no conoce este tema nuestro método le abrirá nuevos horizontes, y si está reñido con él, le permitirá reconciliarse con las palabras teor a y solfeo. No se imagine por tanto que nuestro libro esté lleno de reglas complicadas y pesadas. Al contrario.Este libro quiere ser ameno y permite aplicar directamente en la guitarra los diferentes puntos teóricos presentados a través de ejemplos puramente musicales. Teor a musical aplicada... En nueve cap tulos presentamos todas las nociones que uno debe conocer: la notación musical, el conocimiento del mástil, la armadura y la tonalidad, el ritmo, los intervalos, las escalas, los modos, los acordes y por último la armonización. Un amplio programa para que una vez acabado el estudio de este libro, pueda usted decir con orgullo: ¿La teor a musical? ¡Nada más fácil! El CD incluido en el método es una ayuda suplementaria de gran importancia puesto que permite escuchar todos los ejemplos musicales tales como uno debe tocarlos, comprenderlos y asimilarlos.