Week 2: Let us play Transcriptions and Arrangements 🎇
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Schumann's Traumerei (update Jan 14)
I have continued to work on this beautiful music. In the A and A' sections, I made some small changes in the fingerings that I think improve it a bit. The big change is in second phrase the B section (measures 13-16). I had been playing the melody an octave lower, but now I have it back up where Schumann (and Tarrega) put it, which I think is more musically effective. I'm still a little wary in this section, but I got through it here.
Also, I am now playing it without a score. This happened the natural way - just from practicing it so much that I have it memorized. I'm sure that a live performance of it, however, would completely knock the whole thing out of my memory!
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Here's one I started on last week. A couple of hesitations and it needs more practice. For those that don't recognise it, a piece called Take 5 from the 1950s written by jazz saxophonist Paul Desmond who played and recorded it with the Dave Brubeck quartet.
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Mozart's Il Mio Tesoro (arr. Pratten)
Here is an arrangement of an aria from Don Giovanni found in Catherina Pratten's "Guitar School" (score attached, but the whole book is easily found on IMSLP). Any chance we have to play some of Mozart's music on the guitar is a real privilege.