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Percussive resources of the classical guitar, por Stanley Levi

Percussive resources of the classical guitar, por Stanley Levi

2020

Resumo: In order to better assess the percussive capabilities of the guitar and the guitarists, this research analyzed the corresponding literature (theoretical and artistic) and engaged in a parallel artistic practice. For that, we have developed a model consisting of a network of concepts, a code to identify and classify percussive occurrences, and other analytical tools (PACT model). This model, whose main operator is the concept of percussive resources (PR), was based on preliminary analyses of guitar literature (musical works and methods) and made it possible to more efficiently analyze larger samples of guitar works with percussion. With it, a sample of 20 works of contemporary music for guitar (CG) and modern fingerstyle guitar music (FG) was analyzed, enabling a broader diagnosis of percussive guitar playing. The corresponding academic literature, methods, and other instructional material were also critically reviewed. Connected to that, artistic practice was conducted to create products with guitar percussion; they had strict artistic purposes but at the same time benefited from the application of the results of the analysis and fed it with new insights and data. The results of the analysis show several prevalences in guitar and body part usages and their interaction, along with a comprehensive survey of percussive occurrences and their characteristics. They enabled, through several grouping processes (statistical and technical), to explain approx. 65% of percussive occurrences with eight entities alone (the main group), out of an initial count of 228 different percussive resources found. Artistic results consisted of several performances, recordings, compositions (authorial and in collaboration), adaptations, and a transcription, besides new percussive possibilities, theoretical insights, and the personal improvement of the researchers. Finally, gathering the results of both research fronts, it was possible to offer a description of percussive playing in its many aspects: the eight entities of the main group, along with several other families of percussive resources (either created in artistic research, extrapolated from the code, or subjectively selected for their interest), playing positions, body and guitar care, several technical issues, notation, and repertoire. The research points at ulterior work with the created database, development of pedagogic material grounded on hard evidence, some directions for further artistic exploration, and has several more immediate applications, such as informing institutional guitar curricula, usage as a tool for Music Theory, Analysis and Musicology, and in artistic practice.

Título: Percussive resources of the classical guitar
Autor:
Stanley Levi Nazareno Fernandes
Orientador: Fernando de Oliveira Rocha
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2020

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