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aloysius -> RE: sight reading and flamenco (May 24 2005 4:56:10)
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ORIGINAL: dylan
also, do professional guitarists usually play others' compositions?
I have seen many professional guitarists in Spain quote from other famous guitarists. For example, they will be playing a buleria and throw in a classic Tomatito falseta that everyone knows, and then move on to their own material. This is not generally seen as plagerism, but as a tribute to the guitarist being quoted. They will do this in live shows and usually not in recordings. Also, this is common amongst pena and tablao level guitarists and much more rare amongst the top players whom the puplic expect to play their own material. It also depends a bit on the area - in Jerez for instance everyone throws in Morao's and Nino Jero's falsetas from time to time.
The falsetas are almost always worked out by ear or bounced around from guitarist to guitarist, and will rarely be exactly the same as the original. Tab is quite rare amongst professional players although I've met a couple of players in Seville who have used Alain Faucher's transcriptions.
It should also be noted that a "composition" in flamenco usualy changes through time and hence is a very different animal from the typical classical composition. In Spain if you see a guitarist play live just after they've released an album they may play some pieces virtually the same as the recorded versions, but see the same guitarist a couple of years later it it will have mutated, and will often contain new material or be mixed with older material of the same palo.
-Aloysius
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