The Auburn Guitar Ensemble Concert By Johann Sebastian Bach

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On April 10, 2017, I attended the Auburn Guitar Ensemble concert. The program consisted of eight different performances: three Inventions by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Variations on a Theme of G.F. Handel arranged by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829), Tango en Skai by Roland Dyens (1955-2016), Summa by Arco Pärt (b.1935), Going Dutch by John Duarte (1919-2004), Sakura, Variations on a Japanese Folksong arranged by Auburn’s Joseph Ikner, Cuban Landscape with Rain by Leo Brower (b.1939), and Kashmir by Led Zeppelin. The first piece was performed by a guitar and marimba duo, and it was actually a combination of Bach’s Invention No.4 in D Minor, BWV 775, Invention No.13 in A Minor, BWV 784, and Invention No.15 in B Minor BWV 786 in separate …show more content…

Duarte, who composed the 20th century piece based on the Dutch countryside, was a classically trained English guitarist, and he published many collections and books on classical guitar pieces, such as Bases of Classical Guitar Technique and Guitarist’s ABC (Annala & Mätlik, 2007). Windmill is in quadruple meter and is mostly conjunct, but it has moments of dissonance and is polyphonic. This movement sounds entirely like a variation of a single scale. The second movement, Carillion, is played in a homophonic texture, and has a dissonant, yet bell-like tone. Along with the guitars being played as chordophones in the March, this movement also featured percussive effects being played on the body of the guitars. This last movement was played in an allegro tempo in triple meter and was through composed in form. The third to last piece, Sakura, Variations on a Japanese Folksong by Auburn’s own guitar instructor Joseph Ikner, was light yet dissonant. The light and dissonant tone is reflective of the Asian culture that the music is intended to represent. The piece contained imitative polyphony in quadruple meter, and is through composed in form. Its dynamics change from being pianissimo to subito mezzo forte while the tempo simultaneously experiences an

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