LISTENING

Scroll down until you find the composer list. Click on the composer.

  1. Check out "Pastime by Good Company", by King Henry VIII (did you know he wrote music?!?). How would you describe it?
  1. Listen to a piece from J.S. Bach, a classical composer. How does the one you chose compare to King Henry’s piece?
  2. Claude Debussy was an impressionistic composer. Listen to one of his pieces. Does it sound more like Bach or King Henry? Neither? Explain…
  3. How does one of the Flamenco pieces (scroll to the bottom of the list) compare to the others you have listened to?
  4. Choose another composer from this page, and describe the piece you have played. How does it compare to the others?

 

REFERENCES

Grunfeld, Frederic V.: "The Art and Times of the Guitar", Collier MacMillan Publishers, London 1969.

Sparks, Paul: "Guitar performance in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries", Performance Practice Review Vol.10 No.1, 1997,: 71-79.

Tyler James: "The guitar and its performance from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries", Performance Practice Review Vol.10 No.1, 1997,: 61-70.

Bacon, Tony and Day, Paul: "The Ultimate Guitar Book", Dorling Kindersley Limited, London 1991.

The Guitar Foundation of America : http://www.guitarfoundation.org/