{"id":1696,"date":"2013-12-11T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T13:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2016-02-11T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T20:23:31","slug":"hector-ayala-selected-works-for-guitar-edited-by-rico-stover-strings-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringsbymail.com\/articles\/hector-ayala-selected-works-for-guitar-edited-by-rico-stover-strings-by-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Hector Ayala – Selected Works for Guitar | Edited by Rico Stover – Strings By Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hector Ayala – Selected Works for Guitar<\/h2>\n

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We are honored to have a guest article by Rico Stover, well known for his five decade career primarily focused Latin and South American music, and 2013 recipient of the Guitar Foundation of America\u2019s lifetime Artistic Achievement Award. Strings By Mail is also fortunate to carry many selections of Rico Stover\u2019s music and his fingernail products<\/a>.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Introduction by Rico Stover:<\/i><\/b><\/h4>\n

The music of Latin America is a treasure house and one of the priceless gems in that treasure chest is the music of Hector Ayala. I encountered his music in Buenos Aires in 1967 on my first visit to Argentina. Just as I was struck by the works of Barrios as an important part of the guitar repertoire that needed recognition, I also came to regard the works of Ayala in a similar light. The balance of guitar technique with delightful melodic\/harmonic ideas composed with folklorick forms and rhythms has resulted in music of great importance for the guitar repertoire.\u00a0To help bring Ayala’s music greater exposure and appreciation I have published\u00a0Selected Works for Guitar\u00a0<\/i>of Hector Ayala<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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Hector Ayala<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

(1914 – 1990)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Hector Ayala was born April 11, 1914 in Concordia, a small town in the Province of Entre Rios in Argentina.\u00a0 He lived most of his adult life in the cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires where he played in tango orchestras.\u00a0 He was also a member of Abel Fleury\u2019s large guitar ensemble known in the 1930\u2019s and 40\u2019s as the \u201cEscuadr\u00f3n de Guitarras\u201d (the \u201cGuitar Squadron\u201d which was made up of about 30 guitarists and regularly presented radio broadcasts).<\/p>\n

Ayala wrote exclusively for guitar and dedicated a great deal of time to teaching and publishing many solo pieces as well as a method for classical guitar in four volumes (through Editorial Aromo which he cofounded in 1962).\u00a0 An enthusiastic lover of Latin American folk music, the majority of Ayala\u2019s works are based on folkloric song and dance forms from Argentina as well as Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.<\/p>\n

Ayala\u2019s works have been performed and recorded by many professional concert guitarists, including Eduardo Fal\u00fa, Jorge Morel, Manuel Lopez Ramos, Irma Costanzo, Narciso Yepes and Timothy Walker.\u00a0 Ayala\u2019s reputation has steadily grown over the years to the point where he is now appreciated as one of the finest of the \u201cfolk inspired guitarist\/composers\u201d from Argentina.<\/p>\n

The Selected Works for Guitar <\/i>of Hector Ayala<\/a> <\/i>is a delightful collection of South American music ranging in difficulty from easy to virtuosic.\u00a0 Featuring a cross section from his published works, this is the first time Ayala\u2019s music has been published outside of Argentina in anthological format and my hope is that this volume will prove useful not only to advanced players but also to students and teachers who wish to expand their knowledge and repertoire of Latin American music for guitar.<\/p>\n

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Richard \u201cRico\u201d Stover<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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