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Contemporary classical guitar

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This article details Contemporary classical guitar instruments, technique, and repertoire.

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Instrument

Modern concert guitars often, but by no means always, follow the Smallman design which replaces the spruce fan braces with a much lighter carbon fibre/balsa composite structure. The braces form a lattice pattern which allows the (now much thinner) sound board to support more vibrational modes. This leads to greater volume and longer sustain.

Greg Smallman, Matthias Dammann

Repertoire

Short list of significant compositions for the contemporary classical guitar. For a longer list see the article Selected contemporary repertoire for guitar.

  • Luciano Berio: Sequenza XI
  • Elliott Carter: Changes
  • Aldo Clementi: 12 Variazioni, Fantasia su frammenti di M.G.
  • Franco Donatoni: Algo
  • Brian Ferneyhough: Kurze Schatten II
  • Alberto Ginastera: Sonata for guitar, op. 47
  • Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music
  • Ernst Krenek: Suite
  • Bruno Maderna: Y Después
  • Tristan Murail: Tellur
  • Maurice Ohana: Si le jour parait....., Tiento
  • Giacinto Scelsi: Ko-Tha
  • Michael Tippett: The Blue Guitar

    • References

    Contemporary classical guitar Wikipedia
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