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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Scordatura"”.
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Scordatura on the Classical Guitar: Implications for Practice and Performance
This performance-based project explores how scordatura (alternate tuning) challenges practice and performance on the classical guitar. A range of scordatura works have been examined to identify what adjustments can be made in practice and performance to facilitate a coherent recital. By analysing …
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The Tradition of Microtonal Guitar on the American West Coast
… microtones through string harmonics, scordatura, and pitch bending. However, achieving expanded pitch relations requires drastic modification to the guitar's fixed frets. This investigation reveals how the rich history of microtonal music emanating from the American West Coast is …
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Musical Communication in the Twenty-First Century
… orchestra and choir. The first two pieces, ScordaturA and Thread of the Infinite, have performance issues at the centre of their composition. Prelude, Fugue and Postlude and Im Walde are considered mostly in terms of their reference to existing music, a strategy which can help audiences to …
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The violin sonatas of Heinrich Franz Biber
… sonatas for solo violin involve the use of scordatura, or abnormal tuning. This practice, which was common during the Beroque period, seems to have been due more to theoretical than to practical considerations. The strings were generally tuned into the key of the piece being performed, and …
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Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
… duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premi├¿res and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical …
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A critical investigation and re-assessment of the composition history of J.S. Bach's 5th suite for unaccompanied violoncello, BWV 1011
… for two reasons. Firstly BWV 1011 is written in scordatura in three of the surviving sources, providing much information about the copyists themselves and contemporary performance practice. Secondly, there exists an autograph additional source by Bach of this work transcribed for lute (BWV 995), …
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Zoltán Kodály's Sonata for Unaccompanied Cello, Op. 8 : one cellist's path to performance
… of the piece, as well as a chapter on scordatura which offers some historical background and discusses some of the logistical problems faced by the cellist. While incorporating background information about a piece may or may not truly affect one’s enjoyment in learning the piece, it …
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THE BACH/KODÁLY LEGACY: THE SOLO CELLO'S THREE-HUNDRED-YEAR EVOLUTION
… lines, open-string sonorities, and the use of scordatura—techniques which early composers, most notably Johann Sebastian Bach, pioneered. For some two hundred years, the concept of utilizing the cello as a solo instrument lay dormant, until Zoltán Kodály, with his magnificent Sonata for Solo …
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Voices of the Cello: Speak, Sing, Play; An Aesthetic Examination of Style Periods in the Cello Repertoire and How They Relate to the Viability of Transcription
… by Zoltán Kodály develops the unique sound of scordatura by lowering the pitch of two lower strings by one half step (from C and G to B and F-sharp). Similarly, the Sonata for Solo Cello by György Ligeti is so cellistic in its conception that it is essentially unviable on any other instrument. …
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A Portfolio of original compositions (Barry O'Halpin)
… Two solo electric guitar works with microtonal scordatura enable post-spectral exploration in an idiomatic composer-performer mode: Grave Goods pursues microtonally-inflected melodicism and maximal resonance, and Stridula is a concentrated investigation of the percussive and timbral potentials …