Extended left-hand guitar technique: a study on the barré

摘要

Instrumental technique is an element of musical performance in constant reformulation. With the main objective of expanding the guitar technique of barring, this study was divided into three parts: (1) general concepts about instrumental technique; (2) from instrumental methods of the past four hundred years, a brief history of the barré was outlined in order to collect technical information about its realization, (3) suggestions and examples of unusual barring procedures (with different fingers, phalanx barré, hinge barré, crossed barré), found in the scarce bibliography and which applicability is verified in the repertoire.