Re: "Classical" or "Art" Music for plectrum style guitar?

Date: 17 Jun 2003 17:58:09 GMT
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Ijust performed a piece for guitar and string quartet at the American Music
Festival here in New York in which the guitar writing was very high, often
above the 12th fret and required alot of jumping about because I couldn't
finger things on the lower strings on the upper frets with a decent sound.. In
addition the composer asked for an amplified guitar and it was not a
contrapuntal part. mostly single lines, dyads, and arpeggios.
so I learned and rehearsed the part with an electric archtop guitar and a
plectrum. Boy, did the part flow and it sounded really great. Made me realize
the enormous potential of the plectrum in classical guitar music. I ended up borrowing a maccaferri model nylon with a cutaway and 24 frets. I
used my fingers, not a pick. the sound of the archtop didn't match the requirements of the piece but it
was a fun experiment.
i know this doesn't relate to early music but what the hell.
best ,
mark delpriora
>Years ago I saw Paul Odette perform the Vivaldi Concerto in D Major on some
>sort of lute. He used a pick. It got me curious about the possibility that
>there may be some offshoot of the classical guitar that at one time used
>a
>plectrum in performance of "art music." I seem to remember some covers of
>music
>or magazines (maybe the Noad stuff or the Soundboard covers) that showed
>performers using some sort of quill-like thing to pluck the strings. Sorry
>if
>this topic has been covered before. Thanks.
>
>Tony Sano
>