I would like to thank Dr. Brewer for directing this treatise, Prof. Evinrude Manual Tilt on this page. Bruce Holzman for his wisdom and guidance in mentoring my guitar. Example 3.2: Measures 6-7 of Dyens Saudade No. Used English folk melodies in the film score for David. Copperfield (1935).

ROLAND DYENS left this world on October 29, 2016. He was one of the most famous guitarists, performers and composers of the planet, who traveled relentlessly to play in front of an increasing number of audiences and to teach in the the master classes. He leaves us a considerable and eclectic musical work, in his image of musician without ruts or borders: compositions and arrangements for solo guitar, duo, trio, quartet, octuor or set of guitars like his Concerto in Si for 21 guitars, but also concertos for guitar(s) and string orchestra, or compositions for string quartet, guitar, flute and percussion such as Tambourou. His last arrangements of 10 musics of Astor Piazzolla of which he placed the last note at the end of September 2016 after 3 years of passionate work will be published at d'Oz productions in 2017-1018. Né le 19 octobre 1955, l’interprète, compositeur, arrangeur et improvisateur français Roland Dyens commence l’étude de la guitare à l’âge de neuf ans.

Quatre ans plus tard, il devient l’élève du Maître espagnol Alberto Ponce dans la classe duquel il obtient, en 1976, la Licence de Concert de l’École Normale de Musique de Paris. Parallèlement à ses études instrumentales, Roland Dyens suit également le précieux enseignement du compositeur et chef d’orchestre Désiré Dondeyne (classe d’écriture) auprès duquel il lui sera décerné un 1er Prix d’Harmonie, de Contrepoint et d’Analyse. Parmi les distinctions majeures qu’il obtiendra dès le début de sa jeune carrière, notons le Prix Spécial du Concours International Città di Alessandria (Italie) ainsi que le prestigieux Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles-Cros, tous deux obtenus lors d’hommages rendus à Villa-Lobos. Également lauréat de la Fondation Menuhin, Roland Dyens fut classé à 33 ans par le magazine Guitarist parmi les meilleurs guitaristes mondiaux, tous styles confondus.

Born on October 19, 1955, French interpreter, composer, arranger and improviser Roland Dyens began guitar studies at the age of nine. Four years later he became a student of Spanish Master guitarist Alberto Ponce and, in 1976, was awarded the Licence de Concert de l’École Normale de Musique de Paris. While learning his instrument, Roland Dyens also studied compo- sition with the renowned teacher, composer and conductor Désiré Dondeyne under whose guidance he was awarded the First Prize in Harmony, Counterpoint and Analysis. Among the most distinguished awards obtained during the early years of his career, Roland Dyens received the Special Prize at the International Competition Città di Alessandria (Italy) and the Grand Prix du Disque de l’Académie Charles-Cros, both in honor of the major Brasilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos. CD Night & Day (Minor 7th on line) It’s not a shift, but a paradigm chasm from classical to jazz guitar playing.

Although all music shares a common vocabulary, the vernacular of jazz with its odd idioms of syncopation and blue notes might seem like an exotic dialect to a classical player, a southern drawl to one raised speaking an Irish brogue. Truly authentic communication with an instrument via classical or jazz, as with a brogue or drawl, demands there be no mimicry.

The dialect must be a native tongue. Roland Dyens proves on 'Night and Day' that he is fabulously bilingual. Although having firmly established his preeminence as a classical guitar player with prior recordings of Villa-Lobos, Satie, Sor and Weiss, Dyens has shown perhaps more fluency with modern genres, including arrangements of Georges Brassens songs, Thelonius Monk and Django Reinhardt standards, even a tribute to the music of Frank Zappa. 'Night and Day' likewise showcases Dyens’ facility with novel and virtuosic renderings of classic American jazz standards on solo nylon-string guitar.