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The Early Guitar In The New World: Its Route From Seville To Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, And Cubagua (1497–1550), Richard T. Pinnell Jan 2019

The Early Guitar In The New World: Its Route From Seville To Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico, And Cubagua (1497–1550), Richard T. Pinnell

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Pinnell discusses the history of guitar in the New World. The third voyage of Christopher Columbus was not only the first of the Columbian voyages to reach South America along the Venezuelan coastline; it was also the first that explicitly included musical instruments and trained musicians. "Their Catholic Majesties" (Los Reyes Católicos), so designated by Pope Alexander VI upon their defeat of the Moors, had already been quite disappointed with the lack of stability and growth in the grim encampments established by Columbus, so this time they proposed a unique list of professions and skills among the passengers to ensure …


Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Carter), Ellwood Colahan Jan 2019

Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Carter), Ellwood Colahan

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A review of Francesco Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle, album by Carter, William.


Nineteenth-Century Guitar Songs: An Idiosyncratic Survey, By Ian Gammie, Richard Long Jan 2019

Nineteenth-Century Guitar Songs: An Idiosyncratic Survey, By Ian Gammie, Richard Long

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A review of Nineteenth-Century Guitar Songs: An Idiosyncratic Survey, by Ian Gammie.


Featured Facsimile: Mauro Giuliani’S ZwöLf Neue Wald-LäNdler (Twelve New Forest-LäNdler), Op. 23, Mauro Giuliani Jan 2019

Featured Facsimile: Mauro Giuliani’S ZwöLf Neue Wald-LäNdler (Twelve New Forest-LäNdler), Op. 23, Mauro Giuliani

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Giuliani's Zwölf neue Wald-Ländler (Twelve New Forest-Ländler), Op. 23, in score. It was first published by the prestigious firm of Artaria & Co., with plate no. 2710, advertised for sale on 27 January 1810. Characteristic of these waltzes were the chordal (triadic) melodies, inspired stylistically by yodelers and yodeling. The intervallic tuning of the guitar favors the performance of such melodies as these, which evoke a style of folk music that runs deep in Austrian musical consciousness. Usually performed in sets of twelve, all in the same key, a Ländler-reihe (set, or row) usually began slowly, accelerated gradually toward the …


Works From La Guitarre Royalle (1671) And Italian Guitar Music Of The Seventeenth Century, Battuto And Pizzicato (Eisenhardt), Ellwood Colahan Jan 2019

Works From La Guitarre Royalle (1671) And Italian Guitar Music Of The Seventeenth Century, Battuto And Pizzicato (Eisenhardt), Ellwood Colahan

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A review of Works from La guitarre royalle (1671) and Italian Guitar Music of the Seventeenth Century, Battuto and Pizzicato.


Soundboard Scholar No. 5: Cover Jan 2019

Soundboard Scholar No. 5: Cover

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The scene of angel musicians on our cover is a detail shot of the topmost portion of the famous “Paradiso” fresco in the Cathedral of Orvieto, Italy. It was painted by Luca Signorelli in 1499, at the very time of Columbus’s third voyage, when (as Richard Pinnell explains in this issue) Spanish guitarras and vihuelas were first being introduced to the New World. The Signorelli fresco’s music-historical interest for us lies in the guitar-like instrument depicted in the hands of the highest angel in the heavenly ensemble—a position of no small honor for her or her instrument. It is approximately …


Soundboard Scholar No. 5: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck Jan 2019

Soundboard Scholar No. 5: Editor's Letter, Thomas Heck

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An introduction to the contents of this issue.


Mauro Giuliani And Austrian Folk Music, Stefan Hackl Jan 2019

Mauro Giuliani And Austrian Folk Music, Stefan Hackl

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Mauro Giuliani, one of the most important figures in the growth and development of the guitar in the earlier nineteenth century, spent his most productive years in Vienna from 1806 to 1819. He was well connected with the cultural and social life of the imperial city, at the time a melting pot which welcomed talented artists with diverse backgrounds from throughout the provinces and neighboring states. Here, Hackl discusses Giuliani's folk songs.


Los Romeros: Royal Family Of The Spanish Guitar By Walter Aaron Clark, Richard Long Jan 2019

Los Romeros: Royal Family Of The Spanish Guitar By Walter Aaron Clark, Richard Long

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A review of Los Romeros: Royal Family of the Spanish Guitar by Walter Aaron Clark.


Soundboard Scholar No. 5 (Complete) Jan 2019

Soundboard Scholar No. 5 (Complete)

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21st-Century Spanish Guitar (Levin), Nathan Cornelius Jan 2019

21st-Century Spanish Guitar (Levin), Nathan Cornelius

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A review of 21st-Century Spanish Guitar, album by Levin, Adam.


Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Elias), Ellwood Colahan Jan 2019

Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle (Elias), Ellwood Colahan

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A review of Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle, album by Elias, Izhar.