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    Aguado - FTCL Guitar Program Note

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    Dionisio Aguado was a Spanish composer and guitarist who lived in anonymity until moving to Paris in 1824. He is known as one of the best guitarists of his time. One of Aguado's most famous works is the Rondo in A minor, composed in 1827 as part of his "Trois Rondos Brillants". This technically challenging piece begins with a slow Andante introduction followed by a faster Rondo section. It features Aguado's Spanish musical influences through its use of harmony between the tonic and dominant chords, as well as his advanced guitar techniques like broken chord arpeggios, pedal notes, and difficult stretches.

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    Dionisio Aguado was a Spanish composer and guitarist who lived in anonymity until moving to Paris in 1824. He is known as one of the best guitarists of his time. One of Aguado's most famous works is the Rondo in A minor, composed in 1827 as part of his "Trois Rondos Brillants". This technically challenging piece begins with a slow Andante introduction followed by a faster Rondo section. It features Aguado's Spanish musical influences through its use of harmony between the tonic and dominant chords, as well as his advanced guitar techniques like broken chord arpeggios, pedal notes, and difficult stretches.

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    Dionisio Aguado was a Spanish composer and guitarist who lived in anonymity until moving to Paris in 1824. He is known as one of the best guitarists of his time. One of Aguado's most famous works is the Rondo in A minor, composed in 1827 as part of his "Trois Rondos Brillants". This technically challenging piece begins with a slow Andante introduction followed by a faster Rondo section. It features Aguado's Spanish musical influences through its use of harmony between the tonic and dominant chords, as well as his advanced guitar techniques like broken chord arpeggios, pedal notes, and difficult stretches.

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    Aguado - FTCL Guitar Program Note

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    Dionisio Aguado was a Spanish composer and guitarist who lived in anonymity until moving to Paris in 1824. He is known as one of the best guitarists of his time. One of Aguado's most famous works is the Rondo in A minor, composed in 1827 as part of his "Trois Rondos Brillants". This technically challenging piece begins with a slow Andante introduction followed by a faster Rondo section. It features Aguado's Spanish musical influences through its use of harmony between the tonic and dominant chords, as well as his advanced guitar techniques like broken chord arpeggios, pedal notes, and difficult stretches.

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    Three Brilliant Rondos are Amongst Aguado's most famous (and most difficult) pieces, featuring in the concert

    repertoire of many professional guitarists. In particular, Rondo No. 2 is widely performed and recorded

    Spanish composer and guitarist Dionisio Aguado lived in anonymity until 1824 when he
    moved to Paris, a city that after the French Revolution was open to foreign artists. Aguado is
    known as one of the best guitarists of his time and as a very good pedagogue. His famous
    method, Escuela de Guitarra, was first published in 1825 and is still in print. In this method,
    he describes the use of fingernails on the right hand for the sake of a brighter and louder
    sound. His roommate, the famous composer Fernando Sor, was against the use of fingernails
    and considered that the tone produced by Aguado was his only problem as a guitar player.
    The debate about the use, or not, of fingernails was at the forefront at this time period
    because of the introduction of the six-string guitar. It was not until Segovia's growing fame in
    the concert hall in the 1910s that the subject was settled in favor of the use of nails. In his
    method, Aguado also introduced the tripodion, a device he invented that supported the guitar
    so that it would resonate better without contact with the player's body.

    5.4 Trois Rondo Brilliants Op. 2 No 2 in Aminor


    Spanish composer and guitarist Dionisio Aguado lived in anonymity until 1824
    when he moved to Paris, a city that after the French Revolution was open to
    foreign artists. Aguado is known as one of the best guitarists of his time and as a
    very good pedagogue.

    One of his most famous works, the Rondo in A minor was composed and
    published in 1827 in Paris as part of a collection called Trois Rondos Brillants. It
    was composed for a guitar with a much smaller fret board than modern guitars,
    thus causing the guitarist to perform complicated stretches on the left hand
    while keeping the fast tempo indicated by Aguado. His extensive knowledge of
    the guitar is shown on this piece: while the level of technical difficulty is
    extremely high, the composition fits the guitar very well.

    This piece Rondo in A minor begins with a slow introduction Andante followed by a faster
    Rondo. Aguado weaved a Spanish aesthetic into his compositions, which is also evident here. The
    Andante is in A minor is slow, dramatic and harmonically it moves mostly between the tonic and
    dominant. The harmony moves from the dominant to the tonic at the beginning passages and few
    bars later with a lowered leading note is introduced. In rondo the Original theme appears three
    times with slightly varied ornamentations at a later stage and the other themes in-between he has
    focused on using his stretched chords with broken chord arpeggios, pedal notes and the piece
    becomes extremely technical when it moves along. This piece is a clear example of a Spanish
    characteristic in Aguados work.

    Figure 30: Trois rondo brilliants andante Op. 2, bars 15-21 (Aguado 1994:15)
    Figure 31: Rondo, bars 58 to 63 (Aguado 1994:21)
    This example shows scale passages that Aguado would have played with i,m or i, a.

    In figure 32 bars 83-90, the thumb plays a pedal point on the A bass note with the melody
    running above it, played by the i and a fingers. Bars 90-95 show the same idea inverted, and
    now the pedal is played by the i and a fingers and the thumb plays the melody.
    Figure 32: Rondo, bars 80-95 (Aguado 1994:22)

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