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Show LOCAL MUSIC Acoustic Instruments The Coolest Guitars ... Martin Phosphor Bronze Bulk String Sets $3.00 each When you buy two or more! Lock On Tuners On Sale! CENTAUR Acoustic Amplifier Dealer 774 East 800 South 539--1439 SMOKEv•s RECORDS 1515 S. 15th East 1 0°/o ott with your lAMA card Classical Corner ... by David Norton History & Repertoire X: The Baroque guitar Last month we discussed French lute music of the 17th century. We'll leave the lute alone for a while, and spend a couple months looking at guitar music of the same era. Our first stop is Italy, by way of Spain. The most important physical aspect differentiating the Baroque guitar from its Renaissance forebear is the addition of a fifth course. The first examples of this five-course instrument appeared in Spain, and earned the design the sobriquet, "Spanish guitar," as opposed to the regular guitar of four courses. The term Spanish guitar stuck, and is still used by many to this day to describe the modem classical instrument. The basic style of guitar playing during the 1600s was strummed (rasgueado) rather than plucked (punteado). The goal was to provide entertainment for the amateur player, not to create lasting musical masterpieces. Accordingly, the earliest methods dealt with left hand chord shapes, and didn't concern themselves in the slightest with trivialities such as voice leading and harmonic construction. There is a parallel here with any of the "1001 E-Z Folk Songs for the Guitar" books published today. However, an important difference exists continued next page lAMA notes Telluride winners String Fever takes band honors Young musicians from Utah did well last month String Fever took first place honors in the band competition at the 20th Annual Telluride Bluegrass Festival in Telluride, Colorado. String Fever is Robbie Ricks, fiddle; Daron Shupe, banjo; Emmitt Ricks, guitar; Emily Ricks, bass; Tara Shupe, mandolin and Roger Archibald, guitar. Competing as individuals, Robbie Ricks, 15, walked away with the first place fiddle prize in a field of 12 seasoned per- Dylan Scharer is fingerstyle champ Dylan Schorer, of Salt Lake City is the 1993 Telluride Fingerstyle Guitar Champion. That's right. His first time out. Competed initially with nine other contestants, then against three finalists to win the contestand a new Gibson 00 BluesKing small-body guitar and the opportunity to play on the Telluride main stage. Dylan played all but one original piece and, as is the rule, did not repeat any material in the finals. Dylan teaches at Acoustic Music Studios, plays in Southwind, electric guitar in A Band and His Dog, and performs solo at the Park Cafe on Saturday evenings formers. Roger Archibald took second place in the guitar contest. Mandolinists Ryan Shupe and Tara Shupe took second and fourth place, respectively, in that contest. The Shupes hail from Ogden; Robbie and Emily Ricks are from Clinton; and Roger Archibald calls Spanish Fork home. 10 Intermountain Acoustic Musician, August 1993 |
