Compostion for Guitar

Gigue en Cinq

A gigue, or jig, is a type of dance that usually uses a compound meter. This piece, Gigue en Cinq, as implied in the title, uses an irregular compound meter, 5/8, resulting in an underlying beat that sounds uneven. Sometimes an irregular time signature like 5/8 or 5/4 is used for convenience, and the music… Continue reading Gigue en Cinq

Compostion for Guitar

Blue Blues

A hexatonic scale is any scale consisting of six pitches. There are numerous ways to construct such a scale, but some of them are used more often than others and even have their own names. The so-called tritone scale is a hexatonic scale constructed from two triads related by a tritone. For example, combining the… Continue reading Blue Blues

Compostion for Guitar

Transformation

Does harmony exist in the absence of a chord? Does it reside in our minds as musical experience? Do we impose our previous experiences and expectations to a new piece of art or music? What harmonic implications exist in a single pitch or an unaccompanied melody other than except for what exists in our mind?… Continue reading Transformation

Compostion for Guitar

Study in F# Minor

This study makes use of the full range of the guitar using a 16-measure arpeggiated progression played in three different registers-low, medium and high. Pay attention to the differences in sound as well as the different fingerings and hand positions required to execute each section. Because of octave equivalence they are all the same from… Continue reading Study in F# Minor