LECTURES

Presented by the festival artists, MIGF lectures provide students and all community members opportunities to expand their understanding of a variety of musical subjects. Each lecture is free and open to public.

In his lecture Solo Arranging for Guitar, guitarist-composer Federico Bonacossa will discuss arrangement possibilities for solo guitar. Using a folk song as a starting point, students will be guided through a series of strategies for creating arrangements of increasing complexity. Along the way the way, we will discuss fretboard logic, use of articulation and dynamics, right and left-hand techniques, voice leading, improvisation, as well as chord embellishment and substitution.

Dr. Luciana Kube will present her lecture Voice and Strings: Latin American identity on the vocal repertoire accompanied by guitar. Her talk encompasses the nuances of the Latin American folk vocal repertories accompanied from strings that we can find in the Americas. Culture, identity and collective history is covered in a very rich and ancient music who still has a lot to say about Hispanic culture.

19th century music specialist and guitarist Marco Battaglia will present a lecture on Choice of tempo, its terms and modifications in the late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Psychological and physical factors, both of human origin and of the space in which music is performed, define or suggest different choices of tempo. Metronome marks were not supplied for many works by their composers. Terms of tempo indications developed and were modified for expressive reasons. Different types of tempo fluctuations, tempo rubato and recitative will be analyzed from period sources as treatises and musical texts.

Guitarist, composer, and pedagogue Dr. Mesut Özgen will present a lecture on Designing Technical Training Programs. In this lecture, Dr. Özgen will discuss the bio-mechanical principals of guitar technique and how to design short- and long-term training programs for guitarists based on exercise physiology.

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