<aside> 💡 Are you ready to strike a chord and move your feet? We are thrilled to introduce the "Song and Dance Challenge", a unique experience that fuses the rhythm and harmony of dance music and songs with the elegance of the classical guitar. For the next four weeks, we are encouraging you to immerse yourself in pieces that resonate with the spirit of dance or song, spanning from (pre-) Baroque dances (Dowland, de Visée, Bach), to Romantic-era Lieder transcriptions (Schubert, Mertz, Granados) or South-American Dances by Barrios or Lauro. Whether you're a budding beginner or a seasoned maestro, this challenge offers everyone a chance to tap into their rhythm and enhance their expressive playing skills.
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<aside> 💡 Posting my latest recording of the Cuban Dance , by Anatoly Beldinsky. Still work in progress, playing at speed with clarity and right tempo is a challenge. I kept the apoyando only on the rhythmic part, and ended up doing i-m on the scale down .
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<aside> 💡 This is a piece of early Italian Renaissance music, published in 1536. Borrono (c. 1490-1563), was a contemporary of Francesco da Milano. The title means “Fisherman who goes singing” and so I offer it in this challenge as part of the “song” category (why not?). I really like the way it plays around with what we would now call major and minor tonality.
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<aside> 💡 For my last piece for this challenge, I am posting another Abel Carlevaro dance composition, entitled "Milonga Oriental." This piece was written in the 1960s and was included in his Vincente Vallegos album, "The Golden Guitar of Folklore." While this piece is based on the milonga dance rhythm, Carlevaro instills in it a dissonant tonal pallet, which is reminiscent of his "Preludios Americanos." Carlevaro rediscovered the manuscript in the 1990s and published it in 1994 with Chanterelle.
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