| BRIAN BUNKER |
| STUDIO GUITARIST, LOS ANGELES, CA |
Welcome to the more "scholarly" side of www.brianbunkerguitar.com! Here you can find the latest arrangements for classical guitar that I've been working on. For information on other styles of playing, articles or lessons, click on the "Articles and Lessons" menu bar on the left hand side of your browser. All scores are in PDF format. If you're particularly interested in the work that I've been doing, feel free to donate using the Paypal link provided (currently unavailable!). It's one way I have of knowing whether or not the field that I'm working in is valuable to people out there in the cyberworld! Right now, all of the arrangements here are of Baryton trios by Franz Joseph Haydn. The Baryton, for those unfamiliar with obsolete instruments of the classical period, (!!) is a bowed, fretted instrument similar to Viols or the modern Violoncello, but with sympathetic strings that resonate behind the bowed strings, in the same way as the European Hurdy-Gurdy or Indian Subcontinental instruments like the Sitar. Despite the name of "Baryton Trio," in these pieces there was only one Baryton! The instrumentation was Baryon, Viola and Cello. The reason behind these transcriptions is that there is little writing for guitar in this style. The texture is of three voices throughout, and the voices have been left to the original as much as possible, except particularly for octave displacement, which has not been notated herein. Unisons between voices have for the most part been edited out. While much of the music written by guitarists following Haydn (Sor, Giuliani, Francois de Fossa, Coste) is well suited to the instrument, it usually lacks the confidence of style that is on display here. Again, if you have any questions, comments, or anything to say at all about the music on this page, send it to music@brianbunkerguitar.com. These arrangements are copyright (c) 2007, Brian Bunker. You may freely distribute them for non-commercial purposes, performance and study. |
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