{"id":140,"date":"2011-04-27T10:50:53","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T09:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/?p=140"},"modified":"2024-11-17T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T23:54:29","slug":"duduk-and-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Duduk and guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Armen Grigoryan, one of Armenia&#8217;s contemporary masters of the duduk, has been kind enough to take one of my guitar compositions (recorded a decade ago on Lowden&#8217;s one-of-a-kind S25J nylon string jazz guitar) and record a duduk solo over the guitar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundclick.com\/share.cfm?id=10569865\">https:\/\/soundclick.com\/share.cfm?id=10569865<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has done this with a different ear for the music than most Western European players would use; the duduk does not follow the tune, but floats over the tune with a motif entirely of its own, like two songs being sung together, or a countermelody. The guitar never deviates from a conventional Dm-based theme with a brief excursion to the major (which Armen pushes into the background as it&#8217;s the least sympathetic passage to the soulful, plaintive sound of the duduk). The Armenian double-reed woodwind lives in a world of free pitch and expression, as flexible as the human voice or a violin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; David<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armen Grigoryan, one of Armenia&#8217;s contemporary masters of the duduk, has been kind enough to take one of my guitar compositions (recorded a decade ago on Lowden&#8217;s one-of-a-kind S25J nylon string jazz guitar) and record a duduk solo over the guitar. https:\/\/soundclick.com\/share.cfm?id=10569865 He has done this with a different ear for the music than most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,6,5,8],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-armenian","tag-duduk","tag-guitar","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidkilpatrick.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}