are there any compositions written for the electric or classical “spanish” guitar?
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 at
12:22 pm
this is for a music assignment, and if you know any pieces for either guitar, please give me the name and composer. thanks!
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Playing Spanish classical guitar is my passion.
Here are some of the pieces I know:
Francisco Tárrega:
Etude in C
Lagrima
Adelita
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Fernando Sor:
Various Etudes and Tarantellas
(too many to list in the five minutes before I head to work)
A few each by these luminaries:
J.K. Mertz
Isaac Albéniz
Manual de Falla
Joaquin Turina
All of these men have made substantial contributions to the world of Spanish guitar composition.
I will add to what the top poster said and adding a few modern guitarist of our time. Mostly all classical piano pieces are aranged for classical guitar. As far as ccompositions, Paco DiLuca and Rosenberg all compsed for classical , classical jazz and gypsy.
As for electric guitar…
Paco Deluca….Percusión flamenca
George Benson…. Breezin and Affirmation
Larry Carlton….All in excellent time, Room 335, Kid Gloves
Pat Mentheny… Au lait, Third Wind, The Awakening, April Joy,
Al DiMeola (electric, acoustic, classical) ….Spanish glide, Racing with the Devil, Egyptian Danza, Flight over Rio
Classical Guitarist
Narcisco Yepes…..Concierto de Aranjuez, Jeux interdits, La Fille aux Yeux d’Or , La viuda del capitán Estrada (film music)
Francisco Tárrega…. Nokia, Gran Valse, Minueto , La Mariposa , Preludio En Re , Preludio En Mi, Preludio En Sol , Pepita among others
Niccolò Paganini….. Le Streghe, The Carnival of Venice, and Nel cor più non mi sento, The Spanish Dance,
in a lot of older music, ‘spanish’ meant a regular 6 string guitar, as opposed to the ‘hawaiian’ guitar, which we know today as lap steel or dobro.