[VIHUELA] Re: 2 short pieces for seven-string guitar in G

[Eugene C. Braig IV]

Nice.  I love this music.  So very different from the bombast of mainstream
European guitar at the time...which I also love...but it is different.

Eugene


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
> Behalf Of Stuart Walsh
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2010 5:03 PM
> To: Vihuelalist
> Subject: [VIHUELA] 2 short pieces for seven-string guitar in G
> 
> Wayne closed down the 'early guitar' discussion list. Reasonably enough:
> there was no discussion and it wasn't really about the early guitar, but
> the nineteenth century guitar.
> 
> So I think this vihuela list has to be the place for little forays into
> the 19th century. Anyway I've been looking at some music for an
> instrument simply known as 'seven string guitar' but written like
> this:семиструнная гитара and better known to non-Russians as the
> 'Russian' guitar and tuned to a G major chord.
> 
> There are quite a few videos for the instrument on youtube. Mostly they
> are gypsy things: very fast and flashy or Russian variation-sets, also
> very fast and flashy. Big, fast, loud, assertive, very technically
> proficient performances. So I thought it would be interesting to put up
> a couple of pieces that are not any of these!
> 
> 
> Here are two little pieces (amateur performances)
> 
> 1) (so the music says) a Romance, arranged by V.Sarenko
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtrsfN78dY
> 
> 2) Not knowing Russian beyond the alpahbet I have no idea what this is
> called. But it's a little tune with two variations. Sychra wrote
> variation sets which are very challenging but this is an easy one.
> Still, it's challenging enough for me. I think they had a lot of time on
> their hands back in the day.
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcZor6IZJag
> 
> (the Sarenko piece is an oddity. It doesn't sound like other 'Romances'
> and it doesn't seem much like other pieces by Sarenko and it's not in
> the (can't remember the spelling) Stellowsky (or however as it is
> rendered in English) catalogue. It doesn't go higher than the fourth
> fret. Sarenko wrote a 'romance without words' (if I've got that right)
> but that Romance has a gliss up to the twelfth fret in the very first
> bar and it has harmonics and it's not at all like this little 'Romance'.
> On the other hand, this little 'Romance' although it's not flashy it's
> so spare, it's really difficult to play.)
> 
> 
> Stuart
> 
> 
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