{"id":22810,"date":"2023-07-03T02:44:08","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/this-week-your-discussion-is-based-on-virtuosity-which-was-very-important-in-the-baroque-era\/"},"modified":"2023-07-03T02:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T02:44:08","slug":"this-week-your-discussion-is-based-on-virtuosity-which-was-very-important-in-the-baroque-era","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/this-week-your-discussion-is-based-on-virtuosity-which-was-very-important-in-the-baroque-era\/","title":{"rendered":"This week, your discussion is based on virtuosity, which was very important in the Baroque era."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composers wrote dazzling instrumental and vocal pieces for amazing musicians that could perform so skillfully that it made their audiences dizzy.<\/p>\n<p>Your task this week is to find a virtuoso &#8211; a singer or an instrumentalist, from any era or genre &#8211; and post a link to their work.  Explain why you think the video you post displays their remarkable technical skill. <\/p>\n<p>IMPORTANT:  Remember that a virtuoso is considered the BEST OF THE BEST, with unmatched skill, so please think along those lines.  We aren&#8217;t just looking for someone with a nice voice, or a song that makes you happy &#8211; make sure your video reflects virtuosity, as described here and in the book.<\/p>\n<p>Here is mine.  This is Tommy Emmanuel, a guitarist from Australia.  I have seen him live twice,  met him, and have a guitar, with his autograph on it, hanging on my living room wall (as one does).  He is amazing to watch &#8211; a true virtuoso.  Watch how fast his fingers fly, and all the incredible ways he uses his guitar as a percussion instrument:<\/p>\n<p>Classical Gas &#8211; Tommy Emmanuel<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Classical Gas [Mason Williams] | Tommy Emmanuel\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S33tWZqXhnk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composers wrote dazzling instrumental and vocal pieces for amazing musicians that could perform so skillfully that it made their audiences dizzy. Your task this week is to find a virtuoso &#8211; a singer or an instrumentalist, from any era or genre &#8211; and post a link to their work. Explain why you think the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[857],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/22810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=22810"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=22810"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=22810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}