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Guitar Programs for Adults
 FINGER-STYLE GUITAR: HISTORY AND PERFORMANCE
FALL SEMESTER September 2-December 14, 2009 To register, click here to download a registration form. Please fill out and return with payment or call the Peck School of the Arts Box Office at (414) 229-4308. Students will learn intermediate finger-style guitar technique and repertoire by such guitarist/composers as Leo Kottke, Billy McLaughlin, Michael Hedges, Mississippi John Hurt, Big Bill Broonzy, Taj Mahal, John Fahey, Sonny Chillingworth, Preston Reed, and others. The performance requirements of the class are designed to be able to accommodate students at a variety of levels. Archival video and specifically designed pedagogical materials will enable students to study these pieces in depth. This class includes lecture/presentations on the following topics: the development of finger-style guitar beginning with the renaissance guitar, vihuela, baroque guitar, and the first appearance of the six-string guitar in Europe in the 1770s; the divergence of classical and finger-style guitar in the 1920?s; parlor style guitar; the development of the instrument; the development of written notation for the instrument; the use of alternate tunings on the guitar; country blues; Delta blues, Hawaiian slack-key; folk music in America, the folk boom of the 1960s; early country guitar; Merle Travis; Chet Atkins; the British Isles revivalists; and special presentations on modern icons of finger-style guitar John Fahey, Leo Kottke, and Michael Hedges. These lecture/presentations include rare, historic footage and contemporary video of performances and interviews. John Stropes is the director of Guitar Studies at UWM. Through historical research, analysis, transcription, teach-ing, and performance of finger-style guitar, he has brought focus to this style. His publishing company, Stropes Editions, Ltd., has set a new standard for written music for the guitar and guitar education.
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