Guitar school

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Learn to play the guitar, for example the barre grip

The term guitar school encompasses methodical concepts for teaching guitar playing through personal lessons or through published textbooks.

Music school for guitar

A music school that focuses on giving guitar lessons. The lessons offered by regional guitar schools are limited to their own city or region, supraregional guitar schools usually cooperate nationwide with local educational institutions.

Traditional line of guitar playing

Specific guitaristic traditions are sometimes referred to as "school" called of guitar playing, for example, from Berlin guitarist Bruno Henze founded (1900-1978) " Berlin Guitar method " or by the guitarist Ursula Peter (1924-1989) launched the "Weimar Gitarrenschule" .

Textbook for classical guitar or electric guitar

A guitar school in the didactic sense is a textbook for acoustic guitar or electric guitar . With the help of texts, photos, music samples , guitar tablature and fingering images for guitar chords, song accompaniment, single to polyphonic classical guitar playing or stylistic features of flamenco , blues , jazz , pop and rock are conveyed. Depending on the target group, etudes , play pieces, songs, folk and children's songs are arranged in increasing degrees of difficulty. Some guitar schools are specially designed for group lessons and contain playing pieces for multiple guitars. Modern guitar textbooks are often combined with CDs, DVDs, or links to MP3 files.

Historic guitar schools

Guitar schools of the baroque age:

  • Gaspar Sanz : Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española y method de sus primeros rudimentos, hasta tañerla con destreza. (Diego Doemer's Heirs, Saragossa 1674); Reprint 1697; Facsimile reprint by Éditions Minkoff, Geneva 1973.
    • Libro segundo, de cifras sobre la guitarra española (Saragossa 1675)
    • Libro tercero de música de cifras sobre la guitarra española (Saragossa 1697).

Manfred Dettke made a comparison of historical guitar schools in his dissertation: Textbooks for the six-string concert guitar in German-language editions of the 19th and 20th centuries, taking into account guitar schools, theoretical writings and other handouts that deal with the guitar , Frankfurt am Main 1991. Demanding guitar schools were often written by concert guitarists, for example Emilio Pujol (1886–1980), a student of Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909), who had a decisive influence on the development of modern guitar technology.

Widespread historical guitar schools of the 18th and 19th centuries:

Classical guitar schools of the 20th century:

  • Heinrich Albert : Modern course in artistic guitar playing. 5 booklets in 4 parts, Munich 1914–1919.
  • Ruggero Chiesa: Guitar Gradus. Metodo elementary .
  • Paul Gerrits: Guitar and Lute School .
  • Walter Götze: guitar and lute school .
  • Walter Götze: The guitar and lute school of the youth. B. Schott's sons, Mainz.
  • Bruno Henze: The guitar game .
  • Emilio Pujol: Escuela Razonadade la Guitarra .
  • Erwin Schaller, Karl Scheit: textbook for the guitar .
  • Heinz Teuchert: guitar school .

Guitar schools for acoustic guitar

Guitar schools for jazz

Guitar schools for folk, pop and rock

Guitar schools for flamenco

  • José de Azpiazu: Flamenco guitar school. With German-language explanations by Manfred M. Herrmann. G. Ricordi & Co., Munich. In addition, ibid .: The technique of rasgueado.
  • Gerhard Graf-Martinez : Flamenco. Guitar school for lessons and self-study. Schott Music , Mainz 1994, Volume 1: ISBN 3-7957-5083-0 , Volume 2: ISBN 3-7957-5084-9 .
  • Ivor Mairants: The Flamenco Guitar. A complete method for playing flamenco. Latin-American Music Publishing, London 1958.

Guitar schools for elementary music education, day care centers and schools

Individual evidence

  1. Definition of the term "guitar school"
  2. Historical guitar schools in the 19th and 20th centuries
  3. published 1809; Supplementary volumes: Op. 61 (1810) and 75 (1810) and the Supplément à la Méthode , Op. 192, around 1822. See gitarrenbank.de .
  4. Martin Rätz (Ed.): Classics of the guitar. Study and lecture literature from the 18th and 19th centuries. Volume 2. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1978; License edition Schott, Mainz, p. 140 ( To the composers ).
  5. Review of the guitar school by Dieter Kreidler
  6. Review of Michael Langer's guitar school
  7. Review of the guitar school by Peter Kellert