Concert lesson about string instruments

 Written by Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., Ikhlase L., Domenico G., Flavio A., Daniel C. 

On 4th March Davide Mocini, a guitarist and lutenist, came to an ex monastery in Sestri Levante to tell the students of our school the history of string instruments and to explain the evolution and development in the last four centuries. 

The musician explained the various differences and how the technique of approaching the performance has changed, the different ways of plucking the strings, proposing, for each of them, some pieces and also exposing very particular curiosities, such as the different writing of the notes on the scores . “It is clear that the instrument that attracts  most of the attention” – he added – "is the electric guitar, which is nowadays language  and it is a completely different instrument from the other three on which we are carrying out important work to revive them. Getting into these repertoires is very difficult for a person who has never heard them before. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of listening education to enter this type of world."

Davide Mocini has a diploma in classical guitar and lute, plays in a Renaissance trio and continues further in his studies on the baroque lute. He composes songs with the Renaissance lute which he often combines with the electric guitar, contaminating, without altering, the original atmosphere of that distant world.