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Ricardo -> Modern Flamenco guitar Treatise (Jun. 24 2026 16:39:21)
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Came across this free dissertation of Gerard Mapstone (decent player from Australia, some folks might know him here), where he has laid out his dissertation more like a treatise on modern flamenco guitar performance practice. He seems to have gotten away with doing lots of transcriptions of modern flamenco and traditional and modern cante etc., so a very valuable resource or reference (if you can read the notation).
While I don't agree with all of his analysis (he uses the dominant of the minor key for all the Phrygian palos, however, he qualified it early on so I am ok with interpreting some of it through his personal lens) I find the work he put in valuable to anyone with these typical questions about harmony scales cante and guitar etc. I assume he got away with his transcriptions via "fair use" in his institution which must have allowed that much modern copyright music to be included, as this is very academic in nature. And it is all free which is helpful. While it is his personal take, I don't have any major issues with anything he presents here (at the same time I admit I have much more specific and deep approach to the subject). Enjoy:
https://www.academia.edu/122736502/Practices_in_Contemporary_Flamenco_Guitar_A_Creative_Journey
In particular he exposes with many examples the "Lydian to Phrygian" resolution phrasing I have been talking about for years on foro. He goes maybe too far with it, using jazz modal approach for EVERY single harmony in a short phrase (saying like the end of Caña with a D#-E is "Lydian Dominant" is a bit much, but I get his point as I have made this point myself many times in other contexts).
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