| About the 10-string guitar as designed by Yepes: www.tenstringguitar.INFO 'Like' on Facebook, to stay informed about Viktor van Niekerk's performances, recordings and publications www.facebook.com * * * Stanley Glasser (*1926): ARBOR - Four Pieces for Guitar (1982) excerpt from DIES FESTUS (Festival Time) Viktor van Niekerk, ten-string guitar, at the University of Sydney, 14 October 2007 The South African-born composer and ethnomusicologist Stanley Glasser has written a few words about this work: "Arbor (1982) was written during a spell of ethnomusicological fieldwork in the [former] Transkei [presently in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa]. I was living with my family at Agate Terrace, just across the Umzimvubu River, near Port St Johns. I imagined a tree's changing condition over the year's seasons. So the four pieces are entitled Autumnascit, Hibernam, Primo Vere, and Dies Festus." (S. Glasser, 2001) In South Africa, which is in the Southern hemisphere, the "festive season" is during the summer months of December-January. This excerpt is from the fourth and final movement of S. Glasser's ARBOR: the "summer" movement. Publisher: Woza Music, London. Instrument: Ramirez 1a, 1974. Standard tuning: 7=C2 [lowest], 8=Bb2, 9=G#2, 10=F#2. * * * klassische gitarre akustische gitarre guitare classique guitare acoustique violao classico violao acustico guitarra clasica guitarra acustica chitarra classica chitarra acustica |
