The Techniques Of Guitar Playing SETH F.ORTSAO JOSEL

Pédagogie

Contenu

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Guitar Basics:
Essential components of the guitar
How a guitar tone is produced
Traditional and nontraditional tunings
Abbreviations and symbols for fingers and fingering positions
Notation basics
Fretboard chart
LH techniques
RH techniques
Orchestrating for the guitar: key historical works
2 Guitar Harmonics:
What are harmonics?
Harmonics on the open strings of a guitar
Examples from the literature
Notation of harmonics
Half harmonics
Notation of natural harmonics and half harmonics
Multiphonics
Artificial harmonics
"Attackless" harmonics
Guitar harmonics in context
3 Guitar as Percussion
Historical precedence
RH trapping
Bi-tones
Battuto
Guitar as percussion instrument
Tambour
Golpé
Percussive map
Tamburo
Brushing/Rubbing/Scraping
String buzz
Notational conventions
Foreign objects
Prepared guitar
Guitar as percussion in context
4 "All in the Family". The Acoustic Guitar's Relatives:
Nineteenth century instruments
Deviation from the six strings: the seven-string guitar and the ten-string guitar/décacord
Double-neck guitars
Ukulele
Acoustic steel-string "flat-top" guitar
5 Appendices:
Technical notes
Diverse preparations and descriptions from Yates and Elgart
CD Track List
Bibliography
Index
About the authors

Description :

This book, co-written by guitarist Seth F. Josel and composer Ming Tsao, provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary performance techniques on the classical guitar. It was inspired by a new generation of solo guitarists whose extraordinary technical and virtuosic skills have paved the way for a new understanding of instrumental performance practice.
Detailed explanations are given for the instrument's technical potential within the historical context of traditional guitar technique. Composers will be interested in the in-depth analyses of contemporary guitar literature, featuring many examples of chamber and ensemble music.

Four main chapters describe:
- Techniques of the right and left hands
- Special harmonies and percussive techniques
- The main instruments of the guitar family and their potential
- Possible ways of notating contemporary guitar literature

The examples discussed in the book are complemented by an enclosed CD and detailed charts on multiphonics, bitones, and percussion techniques.

Seth F. Josel
is among the leading figures of his generation in modern guitar performance and has taken part in the premieres of more than 100 works as a soloist and ensemble member. A regular guest at Europe's major contemporary music festivals, he has worked with composers of the stature of Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Tristan Murail and James Tenney and has played with such leading orchestras and ensembles as the New York Philharmonic, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Staatskapelle. From 1991 to 2000 he was a permanent member of the Ensemble musikFabrik. Today he lives in Berlin.

Ming Tsao
(b. Berkeley, CA, 1966) is professor of composition at Gothenburg University. His compositions have been performed amongst others by the Arditti Quartet, ensemble recherche and the Stuttgart Opera (premiere of "Die Geisterinsel” in 2011). He is regularly involved in the Donaueschingen Festival, the Witten Days of New Chamber Music, the Darmstadt Contemporary Music Holiday Courses and Wien Modern. His works are published by C.F. Peters (Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig). He, too, lives in Berlin.