Hi, You do know the Bevilacqua variations? I do not know the date but 1830 seems plausible.
Hans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <early-guitar@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 8:12 PM Subject: [EARLY-GUIT] La Folia: ca. 1830-1900 > I've posted this at pretty much every appropriate corner of cyber space of > which I'm aware. It's time for me to carry it to you, ye great scholars of > things old and guitar-esque. > > I find the simple theme/progression of "La Folia" to be intriguing in > providing a constant throughout the history of guitar-like things in that > variations have been composed on it for as long as there have been > instruments that we would recognize as guitar-like: from the vihuela and > 4-course guitar of the renaissance through the last few minutes. However, > there is a gap. I am not aware of any folia variations to be written for > guitar after the age of Sor, Giuliani, et al. until Llobet (in a rather > modest way) and Ponce (in a grand way) took up the theme again in the early > 20th c. > > I stumbled across a piece called "Spanish Follies" by Walter Jacobs in a > ca. 1870-90 American book of guitar music. I was actually pretty excited, > but, on playing through, the piece turns out to not be remotely related to > La Folia. I suspect Mr. Jacobs had come across some version of La Folia > and, inspired by the wistful mood in minor key, He then generated this > simple bit of cheesy parlour fluff in A-B-A form and gave it a similar name. > > Does anybody know of any variations composed on La Folia for guitar from > ca. 1830-1900? > > Best, > Eugene > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
