Michael McBroom, Luthier ( Houston, Texas) and Janet Marlow, Internationally renowned ten-string guitarist and author of Playing The Ten-String Guitar: An Approach Guide for Guitarists establish a partnership to provide high quality, hand made ten-string guitar entry models for the guitarist interested learning and playing the ten-string guitar. Specifications for the Janet Marlow Entry Model10-string guitar
Michael McBroom, Luthier
1. Cedar top
2. Indian rosewood back/sides and bridge
3. Ebony fingerboard
4. Spanish cedar (cedro) neck with ebony reinforcement strip
5. Bloodwood binding with top purfling only
6. McBroom soundboard radial bracing pattern
7. Schaller or Grover tuners (cut to fit a 10-string headstock)
8. 650mm scale
9. 85mm nut, 115mm saddle
Price $1750.00 USD w/ case
For further inquiries please contact Michael McBroom at: cooltouch@gmail.com
Original Repertoire for the Modern 10-String Guitar
Compiled, contributed, and with notes by Viktor van Niekerk
(vivanni@hotmail.com comments, queries, additions, and corrections welcome)
Key to terms:
Modern (Yepes) string configuration - Standard tuning:
[e-b-g-d-A-E-C-A#-G#-F#]
[NB: Re-entry tuning of (8), (9) and (10)]
Modern Alternative string configuration - Standard tuning:
e-b-g-d-A-E-C-A#1-G#-F#
[NB: (8) is an octave lower than the Standard Modern/Yepes configuration]
Romantic (Baroque) string configuration - Standard tuning:
e-b-g-d-A-E-D-C-B1-A1
[No re-entry]
Marlow string configuration:
standard tuning: e-b-g-d-a-e-B-F#-C#-G#
[NB: re-entry tuning from (7) to (10).]
Different string configurations: When a work requires that at least one string be replaced by another with a thinner or thicker diameter (in order to be tuned as required), or when the standard order of the strings is necessarily altered, this constitutes a different string configuration.
Scordatura: Non-standard tuning, within the context of the specified string configuration
Other configurations tunings are indicated in the list, in conjunction with the work.
NB: All 6-string guitar music can be played on the 10-string guitar. This repertoire list is merely aimed at creating awareness of original compositions for the modern 10-string guitar.
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SOLOS:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Tiento (1955; rev. mid 60s)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Originally for 6-string guitar, later revised for 10-string. Performance on a modern 10-string guitar was preferred by the composer.
§Publisher:
§Composer:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Si le jour paraît... (1963)
I. Temple
II. Enueg
III. Maya-Marsya
IV. 20 avril (Planh)
V. La chevelure de Bérénice
VI. Jeu des quatre vents
VII. Aube (Alba)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Movements 4, 6, and 7 have alternatives (reductions) for performance on 6-string guitar, but the composer preferred the use of a modern 10-string guitar.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes; Alberto Ponce, Ramón Montoya, Ivo Malec, Manuel Ruiz Pipó
§Publisher: (NB The seven movements are published individually.)
§Composer:
alcidez lanza (*1929)
modulos I (1965)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§All notes fall within the 6-string guitar tessitura, but this work, which makes use of sustained sounds, was intended for the Modern 10-string tuning and configuration, enabling sustained resonance for all 12 tones.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§Published by Shelan: (see composers home page)
§Composer:
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-1997)
Cinqo Movimientos (1965)
I. [Moderato]
II. Allegretto
III. Muy lento
IV. Vivo
V. Cantabile
§String configuration: Modern
§Scordatura may be required unspecified in the manuscript
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes, « parra la guitarra de diez cuerdas de Narciso Yepes »
§Unpublished
§Association des Amis dAntonio Ruiz-Pipó 4, Rue du Parc-Royal, Paris, 75003
Leonardo Balada (*1933)
Analogías (1967)
I. Propulsiones
II. Oscillaciones
III. Contornos
IV. Abismos
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§Published by Beteca Music, c/o Music Associates of America:
§Composer:
Vicente Asencio (1908-1979)
Collectici íntim (1970)
I. La serenor
II. La joia
III. La calma
IV. La gaubança
V. La frisança
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard, aside from scordatura of (7) to B1
§Other configurations possible also for 6-string guitar
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§Publisher:
Bruno Maderna (1920-1973)
Y después (1971)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard, aside from scordatura of (7) to B1
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§The original manuscript facsimile is published by Ricordi Italy:
§NB: 10-string guitarists should specify the original 10-string version (132051) when ordering, as Ricordi also publishes [in my opinion] a very questionable reduction of this piece for 6-string guitar (138177), not authorised by the composer.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes* (the work as a whole), Hirotsugu Kakinuma (3rd movement)
*[This work, dedicated to Narciso Yepes, was erroneously written for a string configuration that Yepes did not use or endorse. I have no evidence to suggest that Yepes did or did not perform it, but it is very unlikely that he did.]
§Publisher:
§Composer:
José Ramón Encinar (*1954)
El aire de saber cerrar los ojos (1975)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Written for, or dedicated to: Jorge Fresno
§Published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni.
§Composer:
Michèle Reverdy (*1943)
Number One (1977)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Written for, or dedicated to: Pierre Laniau
§The published Salabert edition is a reduction for 6-string.
§The original manuscript for 10-string guitar is unpublished available from composer.
§Composer:
Lewis Spratlan (*1940)
Chiasmata (1979)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern (Alternative) Scordatura
§Written for, or dedicated to: Janet Marlow
§The manuscript facsimile is published by Margun Music Inc.
§Available through Shawnee Press:
§Composer:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Cadran Lunaire* (1981-82)
I. Saturnal
II. Jondo
III. Sylva
IV. Candil
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§All movements have alternatives (reductions) for performance on 6-string guitar, but the composer is known to have preferred the use of a modern 10-string guitar.
NB: this is not the standard Modern string configuration and tuning. The re-entry tuning is absent and thus strings (8), (9), and (10) are an octave too low, affecting the tessitura of sympathetic resonance and therefore its balance and efficacy. [It seems that this string configuration and tuning may at some point have resulted from an individual guitarists confusion between the Modern (Yepes) tuning and the Romantic string configuration, while being effectively neither one nor the other.]
§This work may be performed as colloid-E. The E-suffix denotes an ensemble version.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Magnus Andersson; Elision Ensemble
§Publisher:
§Composer:
Boudewijn Cox (*1965)
Memento (1990)
§All notes fall within the 6-string guitar tessitura.
§Performance on a modern 10-string guitar is preferred by the composer.
§Published by CeBeDeM:
§Composer:
David Hönigsberg (*1959)
African Sonata (1990)
I. A Basutu tune...
II. A quiet summer evening...
III. (Fast... Meno mosso Tempo I)
IV. (Energetically)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern (Alternative) Scordatura
§Alternative possibilities for other string configurations/tunings or 6-string guitar
§Originally written as Suite on African Themes for David Hewitt (unperformed)
§Revised as African Sonata in 2004 and dedicated to Viktor van Niekerk
§Edited and fingered playing score in preparation
§Composer:
Eric Pénicaud (*1952)
Parabole Créole (Variations sur un thème de Leo Brouwer) (1992)
I. Parabole 1
II. Parabole 2
§String configuration & Tuning: Romantic Standard, aside from scordatura (9) to B-flat
§Non-standard string configuration tuned: e, b-¼, g-¼, d, A, E, C+¼, C, G1, F#1
§For soloist performing on various guitars with tape
§Published by Swedish Music Information Centre:
§Composer:
Boudewijn Cox (*1965)
Passages (2000)
I. Rapsodía
II. Interludio
III. Laï
IV. Finale
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern (Alternative) Scordatura
§Written for, or dedicated to: Myriam Bogaerts
§Published by CeBeDeM:
Stephen Goss (*1964)
Oxen of the Sun (2003-4)
I. Sirens
II. Pan
III. Aeolus
IV. Orpheus
V. Arethusa
VI. Circe
VII. Narcissus
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard, aside from scordatura of (7) to B1
§A solo for 10- and 6-string played simultaneously by one player
§Written for, or dedicated to: Jonathan Leathwood
§Published by Cadenza:
§Composer:
Janet Marlow
Three American Landscapes (2004)
Scales and Exercises for the Ten-String Guitar (2005)
Blue Eyes Solo (2005)
Sweet Sensations Solo (2005)
Playing The Ten String Guitar: An Approach Guide for Guitarists
Method Book and DVD (2004)
§Marlow string configuration:
standard tuning: E-B-G-D-A-E-B-F#-C#-G#1
[NB: re-entry tuning from (7) to (10).]
§Published by TenStringGuitar Publications
Fritz Buss (*1930)
Five Bagatelles (1993-94)
Five Ballads (2000-2002)
Presto (1998)
Suite in E minor (1992)
Thirty Studies (Five Studies, 6 Volumes)
Tres Piezas Españolas (1996)
All notes fall within the 6-string guitar tessitura, but performance on a modern 10-string guitar is preferred by the composer and additional strings may be used where appropriate.
Available from the Classical Guitar Society of South Africa: vivanni@hotmail.com.
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Dominic Frasca /Marc Mellits
Dometude
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CONCERTI / CHAMBER MUSIC:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Concerto: Trois Graphiques (1950-7)
§Originally 6-string guitar & orchestra; revised for 6- or 10-string guitar & orchestra
§Modern string configuration
§Dedicated to Narciso Yepes
§Published by Amphion
§Composer:
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó(1934-1997)
Tablas (Concerto) (1968-69/72)
§10-string guitar & orchestra (also for 6-string with some alterations)
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Narciso Yepes
§Published by Union Musical Ediciones
Leonardo Balada (*1933)
Persistencias: Sinfonía-concertante(1972)
§Amplified 10-string guitar & orchestra
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Narciso Yepes
§On hire from Schirmer:
§Composer:
Jorge Labrouve(*1948)
Juex op. 12 (Concertino) (1975)
§10-string guitar & string ensemble of 12
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Narciso Yepes
§Composer:
Alejandro Yagüe (*1947)
Confidencial No. 3 (1977)
§10-string guitar & piano (4 hands)
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Amaury du Closel (*1956)
Concerto (1984)
§10-string guitar & orchestra
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Pierre Laniau
§Composer:
Adolfo Núñez (*1954)
Los árboles y el bosque (1984)
§Flute, viola & 10-string guitar
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Jorge Labrouve (*1948)
La Respuesta Op. 24 (1985)
§Flute, alto & 10-string guitar
§Modern string configuration
§Composer:
Stellan Sagvik (*1952)
Serenade Piquante, op. 143 (1987)
§Alto flute, 10-string guitar, & percussion ad lib
§Also for oboe & 10-string, or oboe damore & 10-string respectively as op 143b and 143c
