Andrés Segovia's guitar lesson: the different guitar timbres

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5 жыл бұрын

Andrés Segovia experiments with the different sound colors that can be created with the Classical Guitar and shows us that all the instruments are inside the guitar but in a smaller size.
Excerpt from the music documentary "Andrés Segovia at Los Olivos"
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At a time when the guitar occupied a marginal space within the classical music of the 20th century, the guitarist Andrés Segovia gave a instrumental hierarchy to the Spanish guitar working on transcriptions of classical or baroque works and collaborating closely with composers such as Torroba to help them compose classical music for guitar; composers who would later be called "compositores Segovianos" such as Federico Moreno Torroba, Ponce, Falla, Tansman or Villa-lobos, among others.

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@LaLibertéEclairantLeMonde

Segovia was the father of the guitar by right of merit. He earned this title. He understood the instrument more than anyone else. He was also very charismatic in communicating his knowledge. He may have no time for beginners and untalented but as a guitarist today if you listen to what he says and do his practicing routines you'll realise how far ahead of his time he really was.

@ninjaaron 3 жыл бұрын

He plays beautifully and explains sound color very well, but this does not explain why the guitar had very little repertoire up to this point. If anything, the variety of colors available on the guitar would make it more appealing composers. It has a lot more to do with classical tradition and the cultural status of the guitar.

@user-ze6mh8fg1k

NEVER set a guitar upside on its neck! That being said. Long live Sergovia !!! ❤💕✝️🎵

@danfuerthgillis4483 4 жыл бұрын

The problem with Segovia was he never ventured into the Electric guitar scene. This set the Electric guitar back decades as he would of took the electric guitar to places no one would of expected. Still he was the one who took the classical guitar to it’s limits. His touch technique is one of the best ever no one comes close not even his students.

@AndSendMe Жыл бұрын

"There was no repertoire". This falsehood doesn't help the case for Segovia as the 'Saint of the guitar'. It fits better with him being one of the great cultural con men of the 20th century.

@chavruta2000

The versatility of the guitar was expanded even further when it became electric. It has astonishing possibilities no other instrument has.

@JS-bk2jl 5 жыл бұрын

Brilliant man

@RodTDavies 4 жыл бұрын

A true genius

@johnlay3040

Chris Nupen was not correct in saying that there was no repertoire for classical guitar when Segovia started. There is quite a huge one already. We had the works of Sor, Giuliani, Carulli, Aguado, Tarrega, Llobet, Pujol, etc.

@michaelgonzalez7304

Segovia is the reason as to why the steel string acoustic guitar exists in America.

@brianbergmusic5288

Having spent a lot of time in the introverted world of classical guitar, I appreciate and respect Segovia's work and the world of many more like him. I also appreciate having such immediate access to this interview. That being said, I think this interview oversells the classical guitar's abilities as displayed in most practical performances. The guitar's timbre is not the primary and immediate reason why it is difficult for a non-guitarist to compose for it. I feel like discussing the timbres of a guitar is a poetic distraction from the real elephant in the room: the left hand's limitations in access to what notes at any given time. The topic of guitar timbre raises a secondary segue in place of the primary concern of what you are asking a performer's fretting hand to execute.

@FuturePast2019 2 жыл бұрын

Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 1893 - 2 June 1987) was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Spain.

@SeaDawgOST 4 жыл бұрын

Can you understand that this music and this way of playing was not known by the world until this man started touring outside Spain.

@rogerklosterman3789 3 жыл бұрын

30 seconds -

@guitaristmathewsloan8006 3 жыл бұрын

I could listen to

@ProfDrislane

This is fascinating, as it reminds me of the approach of Romantic pianists like Horowitz or Moiseiwitsch, who sought to "orchestrate" at the piano. Segovia was such an imaginative colorist..