Description

Ivan Padovec (1800-1873),  “Grande Polonaise Op.18”.

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• With a Preface by Brian Jeffery
• For Standard & Terz-Guitar
• Skill Level:  Advanced
• Reprint of the Original Edition
• Parts Only; No Score
• 5 Pages

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This is a splendid and vivacious polonaise for two guitars, on a large scale, as the title suggests.  Domingo Prat called this work “un movimiento elegantísimo de Polonesa, cuya composición se desenvuelve con soltura armónica y guitarrística, un poco dilatada, pero de buena factura” (“a most elegant Polonaise, whose composition unfolds with harmonic and guitaristic agility, a little long, but well constructed.”).  The Croatian composer lived in the mid-nineteenth century.

The first guitar part is written for a terz-guitar, tuned a minor third above an ordinary guitar; this part can be played by placing a capotasto at the third fret of an ordinary guitar.  The second guitar part is for an ordinary guitar.