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«The Chains of Guitar's Cognition»
Contemporary schools, manuals for self-tuition remind a brochure «Rebuses, puzzles and mind-breakers», without the key included. Why should one speak of well-known truths? The answer seems to be: to let not only experienced but also young pedagogues know how to avoid ‘inventing the wheel once again’ and begin ‘moving it forward’ starting rather from the grounds, set by the old masters, than from the chaos of new influences that used to contradict obvious facts of development.
There can be no specifics of a musical instrument that would stagger the basic laws of performance. Time correlation, the physical sound’s grain, psychophysiological possibilities of learners - all this cannot be ignored in the process of education. The premises of any instrument’s cognition base on understanding the laws of development.
A learner’s creative growth depends on what «rational kernel» is sowed in his/her consciousness. The authors haven’t persuaded the aim to show encyclopedically all the diversity of forms and methods but just give rational directions - ‘the chains of cognition’ - for pedagogical work.
The authors express a great gratitude to the reviewers who have supported this work:
the honored artist of Ukraine, a lecturer of Specialized Musical High School named after N. V. Lysenko, - P. I. Polukhtin & a lecturer of Musical College named after
R. Glier - I. R. Reznik
A special gratefulnesses for the methodical help in the compilation of the opening entry and the paragraph N 20 «Integral figuration» to the modest and understanding, senior guitar master of National Musical Academy of Ukraine named after P. I. Chaikovskiy - N. P. Mykhailenko; to the member of Ukrainian Painter’s Association, a participant of All-Ukrainian exhibitions in Poland, Canada, the USA, France and Philippines - V. A. Skubir who has provided the product with his works, helped with the cover’s design and accomplished the illustrations, the literature editor - A. D. Anisimoff; and all the other people who are partial to the progress of guitar art in Ukraine.
For «The Chains of Guitar's Cognition» pieces from the following cycles were selected:
I. «Exercise Book for Children» — little program etudes for the elementary period of education. A dedication to the guitarists who domesticate this fascinating, much unknown instrument.
1. One-part form
2. Blue mood
3. Kryzhachok (a Byelorussian dance from children suite «Barvinok»)
4. The dance of autumn leaves
5. Trilogy «One day of March» — «Kapel'», «Farewell to snow hill», «Evening»
6. Mist above the mountains
7. A wordless song
8. Tarantella
9. Etude-scene «You're my maple with your leaves fallen »
10. [6, 9-13]
11. A Spanish sketch (rondo)
12. Suite «Ugly duckling»: I. Birth. II. Poultry yard. III. Wandering. IV. Swans.
II.
Program «Etudes-glares» — miniatures meant for training of
varied methods of guitar technique.
1. Thirds and sixths
2. Sixths and octaves
3. Labyrinth
4. Bells
5. A romance glare
6. A ladie
7. Digressive ligatures…
8. Ligatures for 'ready finger'
9. Music box (left hand play only)
10. Rising ligatures
11. Rising and digressive ligatures
12. Blunt needles of destiny (close positions and irregular metres)
III. Fourteen little preludes - colourful scenes aimed at exercising of art-figurative thinking.
1. Fairy Trilogy: I. A Gnome. II. Journey to parallel. III. Eastern.
2. The first rain
3. Morning
4. Autumn Leaf
5. Illusion
6. Wave's elegy
7. Old styled
8. Thirteen
9. Sunrise
10. Exam
11. November 1995
12. Recalling Y. S. Bach
IV.
Six progressive etudes - spectacular concert pieces, built on
basis of suitable devices of play (learned before).
1. Etude I — Rising ligatures of the guitar texture
2. Etude II — Arpeggio with chromatisms
3. Etude III — «Snowstorm»
4. Etude IV — useful for those who like to place guitar on right leg
5. Etude V — octave doublings and their interconnection with different texture configurations
6. Etude VI — «Wish morning come sooner» (chromatisms of lower voice)
V.
«Polyphonic exercise book» — twenty four miniature sketches
in all tonalities showing unknown guitar possibilities. Tonalities with a large
quantity of key signatures and minimal using of 'bare'.
VI.
Fragments of guitar clavier «Ukrainian exercise book» that is
a finished music scene consisting of 18 pieces.
Reviews to "The Chains of Guitar's Cognition":
1994-2003 - collection «Minstrel» was created. It included more than a hundred of vocal and instrumental pieces from different periods of romance-song guitar accompaniment development.
Re-realized and adopted to the modern conditions of processing and arrangement, written for different ensemble combinations: guitar duets, guitar-voice, guitar-violin duets, etc. All this allows performers not only to save culture achievements of the past, understand the modern processes in music, but also to realize that the future is built on the best examples that have been created by thousands of dedicated intelligent people who cherish the traditions of their predecessors.
«Minstrel» — volume I. Kiev-1999
Instrumental compositions
1. J. S. Bah - Sh. Guno - Preude (BWV-846a), Ave Maria, arrangement for guitar and the soloing instrument - V. Vovk
2. M. Karkassi - V. Vovk - Etude (Op. 60 №3) - "Morning"
3. J. S. Bah - V. Vovk - Prelude (BWV-999)
4. M. Karkassi - V. Vovk - Etude (№7) - "Tremolo"
5. M. Juliani - V. Vovk - Etude (Op. 100 №13) - "Waltz"
6. M. Juliani - V. Vovk - Etude (Op. 48 №5) - "Streamlet"
7. E. Vila-Lobos - V. Vovk - Brazil dance "Shoro"
8. H. Kordoso - Mіlonga (24 Piezas Sudamericanas №24)
9. F. Shubert - Ave Maria
10. V. Vovk - Sketch №1
Old-time and modern romances, arranged by Victor Vovk
«Minstrel» — volume II. Kiev-2001
1. Do not wake up the memories - P. Bulahov
2. Hug, kiss - M. Balakirev
3. Do not walk away from me - A. Varlamov
4. Chi-Mai, from movie "Professional" - E. Morricone
5. What you were like - I. Dunaevskiy
6. I met you - Anonym
7. I all burn - I. Dunaevskiy
8. Do not tempt - M. Glinka
9. I loved you so- Unknown composer
10. Curl - V. Sidorov
11. We met strange - Unknown composer
12. O, don't be silent - S. Demeter
13. Do not tell me these careless words - B. Fomin
14. I love you so recklessly - I. Pugachev
15. Milonga - H. Kordoso - V. Vovk
16. She - H. Kordoso - V. Vovk
17. Muse - poems by A. Block, music by. A. Yashin - V. Vovk
18. I feel sad - A. Dorgomigskiy
19. A ring - S. Frank
20. The hands - I. Gak
21. A romance about romance - A. Petrov
22. A lot of women and wines (sing, gypsy) - Unknown composer
«Minstrel» — volume II. Kiev-2002
1. August - music by I. Frenkel, words by I. Goff
2. Amulet - music by A. Lunev, words by L. Kozlov
3. A former fascination - music and words by O. Strok
4. Let's say goodbye - muses. and the P. Leshenko
5. Vain words - music by D. Tuhmanov, words by L. Rubalskaya
6. About love and friendship - music by A. Turgel, words by I. Arkadev
7. Letter - music by I. Raffin, words by M. Karelina
8. Listen if you want - an old Russian romance
9. Spanish song - music by B. Rivchun, words by O. Fadeev
10. Hungarian song - music - Anonym, words by Bernadskiy
11. We went out in the garden - music my M. Tolstoy, words by A. Tolstoy
12. Do I really care about grief - music by E. Rozenfeld, words by N. Vengerskiy
13. Once in youth - music by B. Fomin, words by P. German
14. No, you are not the one I love so ardently - music by A. Shishkin, words by M. Lermontov
15. Glare - reflections №1 "Music broke into sounds" - music by V. Vovk, words by N. Kurbatova
16. Glare - reflections №2 "Dry the oars, moths" - music by V. Vovk, words by N. Kurbatova
17. What a night was yesterday - music by G. Kurbatova, words by N. Kurbatova
18. And milky way - music and words by Hieromonk Roman
Album-synthesis of drawing, poetry and music, Kiev-2002
Glare 1 - Don't you write down the verses…
Glare 2 - A humpbacked boy in a pipe blows he…
Glare 3 - Rails, rails, railroad ties, railroad ties…
Glare 4 - Music broke into sounds…
Glare 5 - Be quiet, be quiet. It isn't allowed to yell…
Glare 6 - Dry the oars, moths...
Glare 7 - I'll come back to the town…
Glare 8 - Hey, who is there in darkness?...
Glare 9 - Neither a twin, nor a mediator, nor a sculpture...
Glare 10 - Because my heart aches very much...
Glare 11 - Once, one day I will come back…
Lots of the romances and the songs have not come out, yet.
From the author
Glares of reflection — musical compositions that don't belong to such well-known genres as 'song' or 'romance'. They are a synthesis of poems, music and drama. Nadezhda Kurbatova's (2.02.1972 — 7.01.1999) poetry has reflected in the music and obtained its independent form. Harmony with Nadia's paintings and graphics is a unique accomplished composition brought in this album. Poets-thinkers have always been the 'mirrors' of their contemporaneity. Withing their creation one can feel all real happenings, pain, empathy and effort of forewarning in order to prevent the coming distresses.
Nadia Kurbatova - «Neither a twin, nor a mediator, nor a sculpture…», she is as real as we are, but with a sharpened perception, a heel of the versatile world with reflected pain for all occurring. A scream with clenched teeth, a bell dinging under water… And many-many other things unnoticed by common people or simply unwanted to be spoken, to be seen or heard… «Or just have substituted the faith for bellyful and peace. Who knows?».
Don't want to agree with the poetess' words: «I'll come back to town under the bright cross…». She has never gone anywhere and won't she - because is here, amidst us, following her way… In the songs and poems there will always be NADEZHDA (rus. "hope").
A long-term project expected to be have finished by March 2004
Victor Vovk
Dedicated to T. G. Shevchenko at the 190-th birthday.
Ukrainian Exercise Book
1. Ukraine hasn't died yet - Symphonic orchestra, ballet, chorus.
2. Spring-song - Symphonic orchestra.
3. I'm looking at the sky - voice (bass)
4. I would take the bandura - voice (baritone)
5. Why are you sitting ? - Symphonic orchestra
6. Whose horse is standing there? - voice (alto)
7. Bells are ringing - Symphonic orchestra
8. Curly - pussywillow - Symphonic orchestra, poetry by T. G. Shevchenko.
9. Wind is blowing in the grove - voice (baritone)
10. Where are you wandering, the destiny of mine - voice (soprano)
11. A cherry garden by the house - voice (duet soprano-baritone)
12. Bless me, mother - Symphonic orchestra
13. A sad slave-man - Symphonic orchestra
14. Tell me the truth - voice (soprano).
15. Bandurist, you, a grey eagle - voice (baritone).
16. Thoughts oh mine, thoughts oh mine - voice (bass).
17. The Behest - quartet (soprano, alto, baritone, bass).
18. On a very high steep - Symphonic orchestra and chorus.
The performers: Symphonic orchestra, chorus, ballet, four soloists (soprano, alto, baritone, bass) guitar, announcer.
The aim of the project - popularization of classical Ukrainian music culture.
The project's realization implies performing the pieces on stage and CD-recording (and following product's issue).
Issued, Kiev-1998
Not realized yet!
V. Vovk "Times of Year", a symphonic cycle.
· January - a shine of a bright star.
· February - a cold February, 96.
· March - a capricious cat.
· April - a dishevelled shade of summer.
· May - an instant of earthly paradise's origin.
· June - a thirst for rain.
· July - the reaping time is coming.
· August - the last accord, good bye...
· September - a ripe cluster...
· October - the moment of balance...
· November - twilight.
· December - winter has occupied its kingdom...
Arrangement for the orchestra: Youri Rizol
Reviews to the cycle "Times of Year":
V. Sirenko - the head conductor of National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine .
During more than thirty years of pedagogical activity, the improvement of teaching approach has never been stopped. Realizing all the responsibility for the opening stage of teaching as the basis, the foundation of prospective personality in particular and development and guitar art on the whole, - many methodical manuals at best are silent about the key problems, in worst give false uncertain ways that lead to deadlocks and unwillingness of the further development. Taking into account these and all the other facts, "Manual for self-tuition" for six-string guitar playing was conceived. It was planned to include five parts: the first part with the circulation fifty copies appeared in 2001 and has already passed the approbation. In 2003 it was reprinted, complemented and brought as a present to the libraries of Kiev Child Musical Schools.
Extract from the closing paragraph of "Manual for self-tuition", part I, page 105
…This is the first part of the planned work. Here one becomes acquainted with A moll key.
The second part - will acquaint you with E moll. Continuing mastering the harmony, we will naturally pass to melodizing by our own.
The third part "Polyphonic guitar" shows the specific oportunitis in all twenty four tonalities.
The fourth part - "Guitar in variation form - Russian and Ukrainian folk songs worked over by composers of different epochs"
The fifth is "Guitar - symphonic orchestra in a miniature". In this part of "Manual for self-tuition" we will become acquainted with large musical forms: Suite, Rondo, Sonata, Concert. In the musical appendix guitar clavier of symphonic cycle "Seasonss of year" will be printed.
On December 3, 2003 V. A. Manilov - passionate fancier of guitar, a good acquaintance of mine, the author of many musical editions devoted to guitar accompaniment - suddenly went away from the life. This work is dedicated to the memory of Vladimir Manilov.
