Friday, February 14, 2020—Sérgio & Odair Assad, guitarists—CAMA's Masterseries at The Lobero Theatre—Santa Barbara, California—Program Book

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NOTES on the program By Howard Posner The 18th century transformed both the guitar’s body and its position in the musical world. In 1700 it was still lute-like, with light construction, pairs of strings and a bright sound. It had a substantial repertory of solo music composed for its idiosyncratic stringing and tuning, but was also used as an ensemble instrument along with, or in place of, the harpsichord, organ, and other members of the lute family to improvise harmonies over a “continuo” bass line. By 1800, the guitar had six single strings, and a heftier build that supported heavier strings: it was a leaner version of the instrument we know today. At the same time, continuo playing was dying out, with composers instead writing out parts for specific instruments, and the softer instruments were dying out as well, as art music moved out of drawing rooms and into concert halls that demanded greater loudness. None of these developments boded well for the guitar as a medium for serious music, and by Beethoven’s day it was unusual to see a guitar in concert. The guitar made occasional forays into the musical mainstream, and no one took it further than MAURO GIULIANI. He spent many years in Vienna, where he became what we would now call an A-list performer. It helped that he also played cello, and indeed was in the orchestra for the 1813 premiere of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. After his death, a guitar magazine called The Giulianiad was published for a brief time in London. Giuliani composed three concertos for guitar and duet sonatas for guitar and violin or flute, but he and his contemporary Mauro Giuliani MASTERSERIES AT THE LOBERO THEATRE • SÉRGIO & ODAIR ASSAD 19
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