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Our journey through music takes us to an intriguing Victorian guitarist, Catherina Josepha Pelzer, born in 1821 at Mulheim, on the Rhine. Her father, Ferdinand Pelzer, was an important German guitarist, who taught her to play.

She debuted in London at nine years old and her family quickly moved to England. Catherina’s distinction as a soloist grew rapidly. She gained popularity with upper crust of the day and began to teach guitar in their circles. She became a prominent teacher and several guitars were made “to her specifications” relates Freeth and Alexander and she had a photograph of herself playing one of the guitars on her visiting card, they continue.

She wrote an extensive book for classical guitar, “drawing on the work of Giuliani and Sor;” but reports Freeth and Alexander, authors of The Illustrated Directory of Guitars, the average student wasn’t interested in such a complicated text.

The authors explain that she resolved this problem by writing a simpler book entitled Learning the Guitar Simplified by Mme. Sidney Pratten. This book garnered huge success and went through twelve editions before she died in 1895.

According to dolmetsch.com she wrote 250 works and a few methods for guitar and also instructions for playing the gigliera.

She married an Englishman, Robert Sidney Pratten who played the flute and was renowned in his own right. A portrait of her is online. The addy is listed below. There is also one in the book by Nick Freeth and Charles Alexander.

References:

The Illustrated Directory of Guitars, Nick Freeth and Charles Alexander

http://www.dolmetsch.com/cdefsp.htm

http://library.csun.edu/igra/vol1/pergolesi.html

Online portrait:

http://www.npg.org.uk

Dear Readers,

A reader had commented asking questions about the 1999 film by Woody Allen entitled Sweet and Lowdown. I hadn’t seen the flick, so I watched it.

I liked it and particularly the performance of Samantha Morton as Hattie who is mute. Through facial expressions and body language she portrays her character’s emotions perfectly. Emmet Ray played by Sean Penn is an egocentric jazz guitarist, though fictional. He treats Hattie and all women he is involved with badly to say the least.

Allen creates a realistic portrait of a 1930’s jazz musician in that some of them, such as Buddy Bolden and Jelly Roll Morton were known to be “managers” that is pimps, as Ray is in the film according to Ira Gitler in the article Sweet and Lowdown: A Jazz History Perspective. Also, during that time period jazz artists traveled the U.S. basically introducing people to jazz music because there were fewer means of communication then.

Howard Alden and Bucky Pizzarelli beautifully play the guitar parts. Also, old recordingas are used. Several classic jazz songs are represented. Penn skillfully draws a picture of the anti-hero, talented musician, that leads a quirky life.

For More Information:

http://www.sonypictures.com/classics/sweetandlowdown/perspective.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_and_Lowdown
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2D9113FF936A35751C1A96F958260

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Playing the chord melody can add a zing to your playing that will perk up your listerners ears. Here are a couple of lessons to get you started.

Guitar Lesson #720 at WholeNote: Mastering Chord/Melody: The Basics by Jody Fisher

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