guitar attack scoreIn the score, the right hand chords are in the last part of every beat, however, as we can apreciate in Turinas piece and Rubinstein great interpretation it should be played with a broad atack that creates a natural accent
Debussy HomageIn his pieze "Debussy Homage" Falla uses a melody in the medium register of the guitar, played very clearly with the 3rd finger and an arpeggio using the six strings of the instrument
Albeniz Asturiasin this pieze from Albeniz it can be seen the way of playing a tremolando in the guitar. we can apreciate how the performer plays the melody with the thumb and the rest with very litle sound
la vida breve guitarIn this transcription of Falla´s "la vida breve" we can understand the diference with the mordent on triplets played with the guitar and the same efect when its done with the voice (we will study the voice inspiration in another post). In this case the triplets are played with one atack of the finger, that causes an accent in the first note and a very obvious diminuendo in the other ones
Guitar influence in Spanish piano music is well known, however, sometimes we dont really recognize what kind of writing has inspiration on that instrument and how to play it in a correct way.
In my study of diferent influences in "nights in the spanish gardens" from Falla, I found many passages with a clear inspiration that could help the performer to imagine the sound that Falla wanted in each one. Here are the examples:
