Villa-Lobos, however, ignored these demands, supplying an extended cadenza and insisting the work be called a concerto. According to another version of the story, the situation was quite the reverse: Segovia commissioned the work with the stipulation that there should be no cadenza and the work be titled Fantasia concertante. Initially in three movements and titled Fantasia concertante, Villa-Lobos later added a cadenza at Segovia's request, and changed the title to Concerto for Guitar and Small Orchestra. The concerto was written for the Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia, to whom the score is dedicated. The Guitar Concerto, W501 (piano reduction: W502), is a work for solo guitar and small orchestra written by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro in 1951. Measures one and three open with the orchestra alone (though this varies in some arrangements), so I did not think a warm-up measure was needed for these.Īnybody finding errors are having requests for these midi arrangements is welcome to send me comments, to which I will respond as time permits (and my free time is about zero these days).Andrés Segovia and Houston Symphony Orchestra I include some dynamic variation as per the score (I don’t know if the dynamic markings are from the original or were added by the arranger), but no tempo variation within each movement.īecause the soloist is required to play right from beat one in movement two, I added a leading measure of four quarter notes at the start to establish the tempo.

I don’t know much about midi, and this concerto was my first midi project. I created the files using the program “Recording Studio” by Midisoft on a 486SX PC with a Proaudio Soundcard and a Casio keyboard. Ideally, these files will be read into a program which can play them at varied tempos for practicing the concerto. The midi files are in four tracks: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, and Bass.

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