Hive Open Mic, week 104, Romance for Guitar

Automatic guitar. This was not an easy theme this week. Undoubtedly, this is a great topic set by @alejandrorigo, as the word automatic refers to weapons and makes us think about the actual situation that some countries face. War is not a good answer to resolving conflicts. And guitar, well, that part is not that difficult, we could say :) But what does a singer or a pianist do with the topic of the guitar? Should we learn quickly to play the guitar this week?

That would be cool, as a challenge. A tiny problem, I don't have a guitar so even if I would like to, I could not perform on that instrument. However, I could maybe play a piece that was composed for a guitar? That idea came just this morning, while I was responding to one comment to @okayozdemiroglu. That was the starting point of my journey of preparing the piece called Romance for Guitar (also called Spanish Romance).

The opinions about who is the composer are divided. It is not clear who wrote it as some state that it was Antonio Rubira, others claim that it was Francisco Tárrega, but also several sources say that the composer is Narciso Yepes. I somehow tend to believe in this last option, although in many places we find just anonymous instead of any of the aforementioned guitarists - composers. The tune is very well known though!

A friend of mine, met actually here on hive, likes to play it. He is playing it in another version, in D minor, and the triplets are played in the left hand. (that friend performed it a few days ago in my home, on this same piano). This was probably an additional help to choose the composition for this week. So, I have arranged to my needs another version, that was in E minor, with the triplets shared between right and left hand. But I play them all with my right hand, and I added that slow broken chord movement to the left-hand part, marking the beats.

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A guitar piece played on the piano. I don't know do I do it well, I leave this to you. In the end, I like how it sounds and maybe that is already an achievement for me.