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I was looking at the detail with which you prepared the score. It looks pretty demanding but the effect is as superb as midi will allow!
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At the time, I was a pretty good guitarist, probably grade 9 by today's standards. - Right now, I'm probably a 4 or a 3
- I've barely picked up the instrument in the last 3 or so years. and that after a 20 year lull. Unfortunately, there's just enough difficulty to dissuade most. And any guitarist that's good enough to play it would probably balk becuase I'm sure there's too much good repertiore out there that's proven. Also, I think today's guitarists don't like to have to do that much de-tuning/re-tuning in concert settings. Reading in alternate tunings can't be fun. That's why I was very thorough with the fingerings. But I don't know, I really haven't kept in touch with the players, repertiore, etc. since college.
Though I consider it a pretty strong peice, it is by no means a master-piece - Obviously, with hindsight I see a few weaknesses. - but I consider it to have held up pretty well to time and I am still proud of it (especially considering my age at the time.
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Unfortunately, midi doesn’t do you any favours ”“ in live performance the different lines would be brought out with ease and the tonal coloration of the individual strings would be more emphatic.
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And though it has it's technical difficulties in places, your perceptions are right on target. Bringing out lines is a great part of what makes it so much fun to play.
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It’s a fine work; the cross-rhythms came off well even so, especially the way the patterns swap between parts. (The harmony is right up my street!) I’m not too acquainted with the guitar repertoire but it’s a refreshing change from the Villa-Lobos and Moreno-Torroba I occasionally listen to.
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Not to toot my horn too much
, but it's unlike any of the repertiore I'm familiar with. (hmm... maybe that's a bad thing
)But I was going to Berklee at the time and, needless to say, it wasn't cool to be a classical guitarist. So my interests went elsewere.
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The ending seemed abrupt but that's midi again. I picture a live performer pausing silent for a few seconds before visibly relaxing to indicate ‘the end’. In a recording the closing harmonics would be allowed to ring for a few seconds.
And”¦this work does press the case for a solo instrument section.
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I've considered scoring it for a small chamber ensemble, but my arranging chops aren't worthy - yet. Besides, I'm pretty sure I'd be unable to stop myself from changing it considerably. - Waddaya think?
Anyways, What instrumentation? A String quartet. Or maybe a woodwind sextet?