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August 6, 2026Open Access

The Role of the Guitar in Selected Albanian Art-Music Repertoire: Guitar Techniques, Form, and Folklore

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FLFlavio LitoUniversity of Arts

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This research analyzes the guitar's role in Albanian art music, suggesting links between form and cultural transformation.

Key Points

  • This research aims to analyze the guitar's integration into Albanian art music through historical and compositional lenses.
  • Focused on four specific works: Rudi's Petite Suite, Marku's Albanian Dance and El Castillo, Tole's Variation VII.
  • Employs historical-comparative and performance-informed score analysis.
  • Examines works using categories like motivation development, rhythm, tonal organization, and idiomatic techniques.
  • Identified four compositional models based on the analyzed works.
  • Demonstrated the guitar's versatile functions—melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, and pedagogical.
  • Established links between musical form, instrumental language, and cultural material transformation.

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Flavio Lito (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a74570b764cddc9499d5f71https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21793032
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