Asturias for Guitar in the Original Key of G Minor - Isaac Albeniz
transcription by Flavio Arpo
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Originally composed for solo piano, "Asturia" has become one of the best-known works in the repertoire for classical guitar, since the transcription of the famous guitarist Andrés Segovia, in the early 1950s. Named by Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) as "Preludio" and published for the first time in 1892, the work was later entitled "Asturias (Leyenda)", as part of the “Suite Española”. Since then, its melody has received several arrangements, interpretations, recordings and versions, including the song "Spanish Caravan" by The Doors.
The difficulties in transposing it from its original key in G minor without major losses for the guitar’s extension made the work be transposed to E minor most of the time. The new transcription proposed here aims to fulfill this task of creating an arrangement as close as possible to the original source. Under normal circumstances, using the standard guitar tuning, some challenges make the task frustrating: the original key of G minor seems to be apparently inadequate, for octave doublings and chord openings become out of reach for the left hand, not to mention that the original extension contained in the work is beyond the classical guitar’s traditional limits. In order to overcome such difficulties, an alternative tuning system (scordatura) was proposed to solve the issue.
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Texto de apresentação bilíngue - português/inglês. /Bilingual foreword text - Portuguese/English.
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RE-008
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9786587867083
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927104
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