Playing Tárrega on Tárrega's Original 1856 Guitar

foreign [Music] by Antonio de Torres daughter's constructed this guitar in Sevilla in the year 1856 and it's called the mother of all the classical guitars because in this guitar he the first time he established some standards which are still um still the same today which is the string lengths of 65. and basically this shape and also the size and yeah and the six strings and so on um why do I tell you this I'm telling you this because Francisco tarega played on this guitar when he came the first time to Sevilla in the year 67. and Antonio showed him first a simple guitar and then tarika started playing and said oh stop wait this is not for you I show you another one then he showed him a real guitar the one he actually bought and so this is the connection to this lecture on the spirit of tarika if we talk about tariga and especially if we use the term spirit so what is really revolutionary about what he did in his time in the late 19th century so Taria started playing the guitar in the age of eight years and at the same time he started piano so we have the classical situation that we both have a guitar player and we have a piano player uh this is quite interesting because his family was very poor he grew up in Via Real which is close to benikasim to castillon so in the valencian area the family was pretty poor and very often he had to raise some money for the family to support the family and he raised their money playing piano in clubs it was not his guitar playing at least not in this early stage later tarika started music in Madrid the capital and at that time it was impossible to study classical guitar this was a instrument of the street there was some thought something for Flamenco for popular music but not for classical music so this is the connection um if we start reflecting about the genius of Target we have to integrate not this guitar and we have to integrate the Taurus guitar because at that time the Tasker was something absolutely revolutionary it was absolutely different from a parque's guitar it was different from a pernass whenever he had it said he had studied with bernas before and but it was especially different from a lakut guitar which is the guitar Fernando saw for example played in Paris and it's also very different from the Vienna school as we have the style for guitars and so what Taurus achieved was a very strong sounding instrument so if you play a major then we have a solid modern guitar sound the special thing for this lecture I will not use La Leona because Leona is tuned to 428 so if you ask me wait why did you tune this guitar solo and the answer is simply our standard tuning of today are 440 whenever we have to say in orchestras we already have 443 440 is um an amount of value which was established in the 30s in in the middle of the second world war so there was not the standard tuning for the late 19th century at that time the French tuning was more fashionable which is 35 1 of 35. whenever besides our Theory I play this guitar since 30 years now and we found out that the best inner resonance the best Harmony we found with this 20 428 and there's not only a special historical reason it's just the instrument itself so if we knock on this guitar we hear a very low sound and the back is of course brighter and inside the guitars the toner was the guitar tariga played also ahead the tournament was inside the tournament was is a metal cone um mystery thing which it would be a little bit too complicated to talk now about that anyway it helped Focus the sound projection and lowered the high performance a bit lower so the sound of a guitar with the tone of us is more golden and less silver that's the very short explication so part of the genius concept of Target was the sound of this guitar so if um I give you an example if you would play let's say the piece lagrima in the wave and on the saw plated okay sore of course had a bit different guitar position and and he would hold his hand maybe like this [Music] he would do it like this target would do like this [Music] so you hear of this huge difference in concept so what is especially the second special thing about Target is not only the Taurus it's his way of attacking as we all know he it is said that he developed the apoyando he was not the first um it's probably if an understore and also um the unicio aguado who used the the rest stroke especially if they had to emphasize or no to get an accent on it they didn't use it so much for as a sound culture something which is aesthetic in its own photograph it was the sound of the late 19th century in Spain it's a romantic concept of sound of guitar sound but this could only work with a Taurus guitar so I would just like right now show you a little bit the difference if we have the the concept of soar then we have an attack which is not apoyano it's tirondo so we have a free stroke like on the loot if we remember on the loop we have this position we play without nails of course and we have this this count and so we saw it moved a little bit like this there are some drawings in this school where you can see the fingers are in one line I mean the fingertips are in one line rectangular through the strings we come to this sound foreign freely and the target concept puts it into the piano playing so you have the fingers here you hear the keys so you could imagine you have the guitar here like this and you play like this like the electric guitar players today who play with both hands on the fingerboard okay so his attack is rectangular to the string and you use the rest stroke instead of so this attack is more I don't know if this word exists in English I'm from Germany it's more Pinchy is that a word in English I don't know anyway what I want to say with that it's a very direct a little bit slightly aggressive sound which gives a clear core to the note so to make it more elegant we have to incorporate vibrato the combination of this direct attack and the vibrato and the sound of the Taurus guitar which is low resonance and the lower tuning as we have it today this creates another concept of guitar sound so in the classical epoch the sound itself is not so important it is more important uh is the musical texture the the polyphony the harmonic clearness in the Romantic the color gets more important if you have orchestral music you have much larger Orchestra with new instruments which it will not be used before if we take the piano we have the invention of of the steel frame uh also there we are aiming for more Dynamic more range and also more colors so um the Taurus guitars in the trend of this romantic process and because of that chariga had a very good result in the combination of the Taurus guitar and his kind of attack and of course of his inner feeling as a composer as an enrager a ranger and as a guitarist so he enjoyed that sound [Music] this is a different concept of playing instead of which is more loot like [Music] it both has its qualities but for the style of Targa we have to know about this so if you want to hear me performing on La Leona you find on tone base another section where where we have all the pieces which will be discussed during this lecture I performed on aliona for you so you can just lay back and enjoy [Music]

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Length: 11min 6sec (666 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 24 2022