Julia Florida - Barcarola By Agustin Barrios

One of my favorite pieces by my favorite composer for classical guitar.

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Music

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• julia
• florida
• barcarola
• agustin
• nitsuga
• barrios
• mangore
• Classical
• Guitar
• clifford
• talbot

[gengoro1]

no music

[HarrisKTelemacher]

Yes there is. You may not like it, but there is music there.

[paulcroft1944]

By the way Harris I estimate there's about a 500% variation in tempo throughout your performance. It's hard to be certain as there's no discernible pulse for the opening but it's certainly unusually wide. You come over as a sensitive player; why not try it closer to +/- 5% of about 40 mm and see if that can work for you? I don't agree with BlueJazz at all - music is not open to ANY interpretation IF we wish to be taken seriously, and you seem to be both serious and thoughtful. Cheers.

[HarrisKTelemacher]

There is a huge variation in tempo. I'd tone it down in the 1st section (& repeat), though it would still be greater than 5%. But I don't think I'll change the rest of it.

I don't think that music is open to absolutely any interpretation either (I think BlueJazz meant a "genuine" interpretation - i.e. not done for the sake of being different), but I do think that so long as you are aware of what the composer intended and that you have made an active choice to play differently, then it's ok.

[HarrisKTelemacher]

p.s. don't worry about Percey - he was calling me "the joke". If you read futher down on the comments, you'll see why. (He was taking a dig at how I've spliced this together from multiple takes.. He must think that performance is about demonstrating technical ability)

[paulcroft1944]

I'd say the 1st 7 bars are quite important!!! Play how you want, but if you choose to put the result in to the public domain don't be surprised if it attracts negative comments. I'm a singer and flautist as well as very experienced classical guitarist. Set the piece to words and try to get a good vocalist to sing at your tempo - I don't see it working. Also your variation in tempo is unmarked, arbitrary and extreme. Hope that wasn't patronising or rude and - obviously - please yourself. Paul.

[n64321]

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much rubato that it turns a beautiful piece into boring

[galo643]

esta desafinadaa

[rusty132435]

yeah man. interpretation is a good thing. but you also need to try and stay fairly consistent through out the song. it makes it tough for the listener to hear where you're at and really get into the song if it's all over the place. i'm currently playing this song. if you listen to any of the greats really play any song that has a common tempo through out, it doesn't fluctuate much.

[macmanue]

Because it appears throughout the whole piece. That underlying, pushing movement, with the chromatic resolutions.

Anyway, that's just one example. There are so many things to consider when performing this piece.

I really like some of the things you are doing though :)

It has some nice moments

[macmanue]

Obviously the top voicing (A note) in the A7 chord in bar one is still important. But I think it is secondary to the pushing motion created by the lower voice.

Imagine the boat pushing away from where it is docked to begin it's journey.

We also have that sweet melody (A...A-B-A- A...A-B-C#-D in bars 3 and 4 etc...

But when you are playing this sweet melody don't forget about the melody I mentioned at the start.

(Continued...)

[macmanue]

You can play it...

But it doesn't capture the feeling of a barcarole.

You have some nice things, and I think with a bit of work you can really make something of this!

For example...At the beginning, try and bring out the first few notes: D, A, F#, G. Because that is a melody.

And try to bring out the chromatic movement by playing the F# louder than the G which it resolves to.

(Continued...)

[cheeky2monkey]

you actually have quite a good fingering which produces a good tone at times. But the tempo variation is just too extreme! Notes have length values which should be somewhat adhered to! Choose a tempo and stick to it, get a metronome. By all means accent and push your phrases but you don't need to speed up and slow down quite as you do.

[ClassenGuitars]

nice sarcasm.

[highscoremusic]

check out the real version by Ricardo Havenstein on iTunes...

[pgypg]

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