Jose Ferrer dedicated many of his compositions to his students. Word has it that he mainly composed for his female students. Trois Melodies Op. 42 is an exception, this work is dedicated to Monsieur Antonio de Ajuria. The surname of this gentleman gives a hint of the atmosphere of the pieces, you will find some…
Author: Mark (Beheerder)
Trois Mélodies: Méditation (Ferrer)
Jose Ferrer dedicated many of his compositions to his students. Word has it that he mainly composed for his female students. Trois Melodies Op. 42 is an exception, this work is dedicated to Monsieur Antonio de Ajuria. The surname of this gentleman gives a hint of the atmosphere of the pieces, you will find some…
Trois Mélodies: Plainte Amoureuse (Ferrer)
Jose Ferrer dedicated many of his compositions to his students. Word has it that he mainly composed for his female students. Trois Melodies Op. 42 is an exception, this work is dedicated to Monsieur Antonio de Ajuria. The surname of this gentleman gives a hint of the atmosphere of the pieces, you will find some…
Spanish Romance (Pratten)
Many of Madame Pratten’s pieces are emotional or gloomy in nature. To my surprise, I found a slightly more joyful piece: Spanish Romance. The piece turns out to be a musical play, the sections have descriptive titles as clues to the atmosphere of the music. That resembles the programmatic pieces by Fernando Carulli. The story…
The Last Rose of Summer (Trad/Mertz)
In Mertz’s time it was fashionable to arrange folk songs for guitar. Giuliani picked up a couple from Scotland (Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi), Sor made an arrangement on Ye Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon and Mertz put a number of arrangements in his Musikalische Rundschau. This arrangement of the Irish folk song The Last…
Übungsstücke from Schule für die Gitarre (Mertz)
Like many of his guitar colleagues, Mertz had an interest in people playing his music themselves, because what good is sheet music otherwise? That is why he devised his own guitar method to guide the amateur guitarist in the right direction to be able to play his more complex works. It is a short work…
Agréments du Foyer: Chasse (Ferrer)
Freely translated, Agréments du Foyer means Home Pleasures, so here we have pieces for home performance. The Chasse takes us outside with the characteristic sound of the hunting horn. Play some contrast in the passages where the hunting horn is in unison and in two voices. Apparently, Ferrer composed for the higher classes, because many…
Agréments du Foyer: Siciliano (Ferrer)
Freely translated, Agréments du Foyer means Home Pleasures, so here we have pieces for home performance. The Siciliano is fairly simple, play it with the typical 6/8 rocking movement and vary the sound.
Agréments du Foyer: Menuet (Ferrer)
Freely translated, Agréments du Foyer means Home Pleasures, so here we have pieces for home performance. A simple Minuet with a few tricky transitions, especially in bars 4/12 and 7/15. The pace does not have to be very fast, so with practice you can work it out.
Aires de mi Tierra (Calandra)
In her compositions she used motifs from Argentine folk music. Thus, in this piece Aires de mi Tierra (Songs of my Country) the forms Zamba, Vidalita and Pericón are used. The piece is dedicated to María Luisa Anido. There is some position play in the piece. To support that, I have at least indicated the…