My Guitar Chant” style was developed from 1993 through to my 2 Persian Pieces of 2009-10. It features in other works occasionally, including my guitar concerto. Compositions in this style draw from stylisms of established genres such as Persian Dastgah and Hindustani Raga instrumental and vocal techniques and ornaments, but also from Western chant like Gregorian pieces and, of course, Flamenco. The idea was to use the voice of the guitar in a particular approach to elements and ideas from these musics, accomplishing this with strong guitaristic idioms. Michael D. Knopf
