EXCLUSIVE sheet music alert! Alberto Mesirca: How to Play Scarlatti on the Guitar (Apr 30)
My friends, I have some truly incredible news for you today! 
Not only are we going to be joined by Italian virtuoso and Scarlatti expert Alberto Mesirca for a great show on tonebase Live, but also:
All of us watching on tonebase will also receive a free copy of an unreleased transcription of Scarlatti's Sonata K466 by Alberto himself!
Download the transcription by following this link: http://tb.media/ScarlattiK466
This livestream is intended to open new perspectives to the interpretation of music by the great Italian composer, focusing on articulation, ornamentation, character and style. Using examples from ancient treatises, historical recordings and comparisons between past and current approaches to guitar transcriptions, we will gain practical and historic insights allowing us to combine and balance personal taste with musical awareness.
Rapid rasgueos and modal scales heard on the streets of Portugal and southern Spain, arabic melismatic chant, but also the lute and vihuela "impressionistic polyphony" (Kirkpatrick): all these elements combine in Scarlatti's Sonatas with vivid fantasy. Is playing these pieces on the guitar like going back to the composer's primary source of inspiration?
Find the start time in your time zone by clicking the photo or following this event link:
https://app.tonebase.co/guitar/live/player/alberto-mesirca-scarlatti
We are going to be using this thread to gather suggestions and questions!
- What questions do you have on this topic?
- Any particular area you would like us to focus on?
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Hello Mircea and Alberto! Hope you are ok. My favorite sonata is K292 L 24 in E (hope you have it in mind, I don't have its scores). Some guitarists play part B of that sonata (the resolving b7) in a low octave, others in the high octave. Any particular reason for transcribing it one way or another? Personally, I like the low octave
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When I clicked the link I just got taken to this page (bit of Catch 22). However I downloaded the score by going to a new tab on my browser (Chrome) and typing in the actual link address. Just posting this in case anybody else encounters the same problem. I'm doing this on an android tablet
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Derek hi Derek! I'm so sorry that's happening to you - I don't know what the issue might be
It works for me on Chrome. I've also tried on my iPad and on my Android phone, and that also seems to work. Perhaps bit.ly (the link shortening service we use) has some sort of a glitch on Android tablets specifically... Let's keep this post up so that others can be warned in case the same happens to them.
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Hi, Mircea. I´ve just finished watching the livestream. Full of valuable information, as always. I only wanted to mention that G.G Kapsberger (among others) wrote cross-string trills in his tablatures, so, nothing new under the sun. I think cross-string trills are fully justified in baroque and renaissance music. Thank you and Alberto for a wonderful session.
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Igor Thank you Igor! I never knew that - thank you for that piece of information! My colleague Martin (fellow tonebase host) played a lot of Kapsberger while we were in college together, but I must confess that I never have. Perhaps I'll give it a go soon, too!
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k11 when played on key board repeats the motive several times descending in range . The only way to do this in range into start the piece up the 8VE , I have done this and done the reapeat down the 8ve,
would you CONSIDER the repeats oF say A BACH piece down and chANGE registration On either the full repeat or by a 2 bar at time phase ing to be fair game?
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