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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@Steve Price Thanks, Steve. I really like this one too. It brings out the best qualities of the guitar's sound, in my opinion. It is a bit of a pain, though,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@Jack Stewart Thanks, Jack. It sounds like you have some knowledge of this melody. I had no idea it was a medieval tune, but that makes sense.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@Jack Stewart Thank for sharing that score, Jack! I want to commend you on your proficiency with whatever software you use to create scores. It looks good enough to publish.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
I suppose this is the official "end" of this challenge, but I see no reason why people cannot keep posting music by women composers here. I, for one, plan to continue working on some of these pieces.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
Maria Luisa Anido - Nana This is apparently based on a melody by Alfonso el Sabio (Alphonse the Wise in English). It very much reminds me of Llobet's arrangements of Catalan folk songs,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@Jack Stewart Amazing transcription, Jack! How you got that to be playable on the guitar is sheer genius. You have a real gift for that! It looks quite difficult to play,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@Gunter I love it, Gunter! I listened at the end of a tiring day at work, and it was perfect. Thanks for sharing!
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@joosje This is so wonderful, Joosje! I tried to play this long ago (and gave up), so I know it is a rather difficult piece, technically. You not only handle the technique,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@David Krupka Thanks, David. It is very effective as a study in that there are some very clear technical goals for each hand. Musically, it seems like she is being rather playful with the harmonic…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@Steve Price Excellent, Steve. At the risk of getting too philosophical, I love how her music has survived, transcending her life circumstances, still bringing beauty to us.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
Presti - Etude III (Apr 27) Here is an update on this. I'm really trying to play the chords very evenly, and not arpeggiate any of them. It gets hard in a few spots,…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@don Beautiful, Don! What a great sense of melody she has.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
@joosje Those are great studies, Joosje! Several of us seem to be combining the Women Composers Challenge with the Studies Challenge.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week 4
Gisèle Sikora – Daybreak I'll kick off this week with a composer I had not heard of until yesterday. I found this in one of Annette Kruisbrink’s books of works by women composers.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
Other than comments on the posts above, Week 3 is now closed. New posts can go in Week 4.
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- 6 mths ago
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The Women Composers Challenge Week 4

Welcome to week four of our community-driven challenge on women composers! In week three, we heard some music by Madeleine Cottin, Annette Kruisbrink, Maria Linnemann, and Ida Presti.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@Steve Price More great stuff, Steve! I'm surprised the studies are not more commonly played.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
Update on Presti Etudes (Apr 23)
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@Ron Thanks, Ron. And these are the easiest etudes in the set of six.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@Steve Price I should have figured out that it was in one those books by Kruisbrink that you have. I had heard of her brother, and once played a piece by him (called Solitude, I think?).…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@joosje Thanks, Joosje. I'm not sure #2 has a particular technical goal, but more musical goals. I have to say that there are many repertoire pieces called studies for which I do not see a clear…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@Steve Price You are a wise man. I have been practicing III, and it is not easy on the hand. I have been working on trying to play it with the absolute least tension possible.
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@Steve Price That's a lovely little piece, Steve! I have never heard of her. Do you have this in a book? I can't find a score online.
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- 6 mths ago
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
Ida Presti - Etudes II and III I love Ida Presti's music, but of her pieces for solo guitar (that I can find) these are the only two that are anywhere near my playing level.…
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Re: The Women Composers Challenge Week Three
@joosje For me, it has just been a matter of doing it a lot, and not fussing over my perceived "imperfections". My knowledge of technology and sound engineering is laughably low.…
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