Extended Techniques for the Classical Guitar - Robert Lunn Composer

Example 3.14 Golpes in Shadows by William Albright. 2 nd Movement, “Tierra,”
Page 7, system 6.
William Albright uses golpes in the second movement of Shadows. In the score,
Albright writes that the golpes should be “of the loudest and brightest pitch possible.” 7
This would suggest that the performer would use the nail from the right hand to hit the
wood of the guitar. Golpes are usually notated with a box notehead although, sometimes
composers will use an X as a notehead and write golpe above.
Example 3.15 Percussion on the body of the guitar in Four Poems of Garcia Lorca by
Reginald Smith Brindle. 3 rd Movement, “Tierra Seca,” measures 1-2.
Reginald Smith Brindle, in the third movement of his Four Poems of Garcia
Lorca, uses percussion on the body of the guitar. Brindle writes that the performer
should “strike [the] body of instrument with all fingers flat.” 8 Brindle is telling the
7 William Albright, Shadows ed., Michael Lorimer (Pacific: Mel Bay Publications, INC., 1984), 7.
8 Reginald Smith Brindle, Four Poems of Garcia Lorca (London: Schott & Company, 1977), 8.
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