by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 19, 2018 | blog-ingles, Music
It was very special for me making the DVD “Guitar Through the Ages”. This project allowed me the opportunity to show pieces of music from the arrival of Europeans in the Americas to present day on the instruments of each era. The project, funded by the...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 14, 2018 | Music
The genesis of Hommage pour le tombeau de Debussy is to be found in the death of Claude Debussy, when Henri Prunierers, editor of the Parisian music journal “Le Revue Musicale”, asked numerous composers among them Stravinsky, Satie, Bartok and Falla to...
by Alvaro Henrique | Dec 14, 2018 | Music
In this “Music Talks” I expand one of the ideas I mentioned on our first video, about how melodies are composed (watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSevH-nSTvQ). On the first video, I focused on “universal” features that lead to the...
by Alvaro Henrique | Nov 30, 2018 | Music
What is the classical guitar? Why is it called so? Because it is “classical”, is it a different instrument from a guitar? Get answers to those questions and also know a little bit about the classical guitar and its curiosities: did you know it used strings...
by Alvaro Henrique | Nov 28, 2018 | Music
Manuel de Falla is one of the main Spanish composers. Among his most important works there are ballets and operas. One of these ballets is El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Pointed Hat), whose story is about a love triangle involving a miller, his wife, and the...
by Alvaro Henrique | Nov 23, 2018 | blog-ingles, Music
Melody is a very special component of music. So special it is, that many confuse melody with the music itself. How often have we heard things like “I like this music because of its melody” or “This melody is so beautiful, therefore I like this...
