Week 2: Change of Colors
As the air gets crisper and the days grow shorter, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the beauty and transition that autumn brings. We're excited to introduce our newest community challenge: "Music of the Fall"! This is your chance to explore pieces that capture the essence of this season – whether they evoke the feeling of change, a fresh beginning, or the quiet nostalgia of falling leaves.
What’s the Challenge?
Select a guitar piece that you personally associate with the change of seasons or the idea of starting anew. This could be a work that resonates with autumnal moods, melodies that conjure up images of falling leaves, or pieces that mark a new chapter in your musical journey.
Suggested Themes:
- Transition: Pieces that reflect change or transformation.
- New Beginnings: Works that symbolize starting something new, like a new season in life or music.
- Autumnal Mood: Music that captures the essence of fall – perhaps something contemplative, warm, or even bittersweet.
Timeline:
- Start: October 1st
- End: October 30th
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Ernest Shand - Inquiétude (Sorrow) Op 56 No 1
This time I tried to add more contrasts in dynamics and tone color. I'm not sure if I succeeded.
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Eric Phillips great sound and clear phrasing and colouring. Well done Eric
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Eric Phillips This is significant improvement over an already beautiful performance.
Great work, Eric.
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I've not had chance to watch any of the performances in this challenge yet but I will do as soon as I can. In the meantime here is a very draft recording of a piece that I thought fits the challenge well. I always think of autumn (Fall!) as when the spiders appear in the house (preparing it for halloween?) so this is Pequina Tarantella by Bartolome Calatayud. I'll work on it and hopefully produce a definitive version!
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Derek What a lively little piece! It looks like a great workout for both hands. And, as you say, appropriate for the season, too - I just hope the spiders in your house aren't the sort associated with this famous Italian dance! Looking forward to the 'definitive' version.
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Derek Very nice Derek
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Derek If our house is anythings to go by this definitely fits the bill! Very nicely played Derek
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Derek nice Derek. Well done!
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Derek What a fun piece! It really does sound like a spider.
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Derek Well done, Derrick. I have never heard this interesting piece. I also Neve realized that a Tarantella was related to the tarantula. So I looked up its meaning:
It is a cure for tarantism
- A nervous affection producing melancholy, stupor, and an uncontrollable desire to dance. It was supposed to be produced by the bite of the tarantula, and considered to be incapable of cure except by protracted dancing to appropriate music.
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Derek What a fun piece Derek! Thanks for sharing and now that we have two more weeks I hope you'll share your final version with us.
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Hello everyone, this time I would like to share a piece of music written by a French composer Adrian Le Roy. What makes me interested in his music is that he would write out the diminution for a piece that gives us a glimpse of how musicians played guitar music in the Renaissance period. I hope you would also like this piece - Pessemeze.
Oh, and how does this music relate to The Fall? I don't know, but his diminution really changed the color of the music, so I think it still fits this week's theme, doesn't it?
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Very nice performance, Wai! This has long been one of my favourite pieces by Le Roy. (Despite its structural simplicity, there is something almost hypnotic about it, I find.) I love that you switch to p-i alternation for the diminutions - this really underscores the contour of the melodic line. Thanks for posting - you've got me wanting to play a little Le Roy myself now!
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Wai Thanks for sharing this Wai. A beautiful piece and you play it very well. I enjoyed it!
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Wai Very beautiful piece Wai and well performed. Bravo
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Wai What a lovely piece and beautifully performed Wai!
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David Krupka Thanks, David. Yes, I found that playing those diminutions with the p-i alternation was much more natural (at least to me) than the other way. This piece I think was originally written for lute, I would like to learn his guitar compositions too, hope to share the result here soon.
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Derek Andre Bernier Ron Thank you all so much! It’s always a great pleasure to share music on Tonebase.
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Wai somehow I can’t get access to the video. I’ll try again later
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joosje I’ve been having the same problem with several videos posted in the forum. It only works when I click on “Watch on YouTube” in the lower right corner of the video.
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Wai I love this piece, Wai, and you’re playing it very well. If you want a treat, look up one of several recordings of it by Ronn McFarlane on the lute. Mind blowing!
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Wai That was great, Wai. We don't have enough Renaissance music represented here. (I am certainly guilty of that.) I used to play a lot of Renaissance music decades ago, in fact I was in a Renaissance Consort of sorts.. I have a fair amount of music from then and Le Roy is represented - I'll have to reacquaint myself.
Thanks for posting this.
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joosje Hi, joosje. I have checked my Youtube settings, the video is set to "unlisted", so I do not think it is a settings issue. Maybe trying the solution Eric mentioned below will solve the problem. Anyway, thanks for listening.
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Eric Phillips Thanks Eric. Yes, I have listened to Ronn McFarlane's version, and there is another version that I really like, played by an artist called Christopher Wilson. I just found one of his albums on Youtube music but don't know much about him, hope you like this version too.
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Jack Stewart Wow, a Renaissance consort? I really want to see it. I may have missed a lot of the monthly challenges this year, but I don't remember seeing you playing Renaissance music. Are you planning to record and share some of the Renaissance music on Tonebase?
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Wai no no, that was decades ago - like 5 decades!!!! Some of the members were quite good, though I wasn't one of them. Everyone was quite accommodating and patient with me.
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End of the Year Challenge: Finish Strong!
