SKU: M7.BBA-4018
ISBN 9790804700022.
SKU: M7.BBA-4011
SKU: M7.BBA-4010
ISBN 9790804700138.
SKU: M7.BBA-4023
ISBN 9790804700015.
SKU: M7.BBA-4005
ISBN 9790804700008.
SKU: PR.144407530
ISBN 9781491136614. UPC: 680160687992.
A violinist herself, Lauren Bernofsky has described SONATA FOR SOLO VIOLIN as drawn from autobiographical inspiration, including gestures from Bachâ??s beloved Partita in E Major. Bernofsky opens with a Preludio movement whose references to Bach may be disguised, but they are surely lurking. The second movement is lusciously contrapuntal with the idiomatic finesse of a violinist composing for her own instrument, while musically journaling the emotional pain of living through 2020. The third and final movement is aptly marked â??white-hot,â? and the music certainly is.My SONATA FOR SOLO VIOLIN was commissioned by violinist Megan Healy as part of The Maud Powell Project, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. The project included the creation of five new works for solo violin inspired by and dedicated to the memory of pioneering American violinist Maud Powell (1867-1920). Healy premiered the sonata on May 8, 2021 at PianoForte Studios in Chicago.Among the works Powell most frequently performed in her recitals was the â??Preludioâ? movement from Bachâ??s E major Partita, and I decided to refer to that music in my own first movement, also titled â??Preludio.â? The beginning subtly reflects Bachâ??s opening three-note motive, wherein the music dips down a semitone and then comes back up. This melodic material returns throughout the movement in various forms. I also refer to Bachâ??s sixteenth-note dominated texture, and the gesture in the third measure, which outlines a perfect fifth and then fills it in with notes that alternate between a scale and a pedal tone. The corresponding passage in my piece occurs in the same place, measure 3. Apart from these references to Bach, my sonata is much more modern sounding, especially in its chromatic character.I was still thinking of Bachâ??s solo violin writing while composing the second movement, particularly the polyphonic nature of the slow movements, where the melodic interest moves around between the voices. Emotionally, I wanted my movement to reflect the acute sadness I had been experiencing over the political and social situation in the United States as I wrote the piece. I realized that this is a historically noteworthy time in U.S. history, marked not only by political unrest, but also by a challenge to the very values that I consider essential to what makes a person fundamentally human. I wanted to create a record of that pain in my music.The final movement is marked â??White-hot.â? It is imbued with a relentless, passionate intensity. Wanting again to reflect aspects of our own time, I included glissandi that refer to rock music, specifically the â??fall-offsâ? I frequently hear played by electric guitarists. I borrowed from another (completely different) musical tradition as well, one that is near-and-dear to my heart: Klezmer. Klezmer (Eastern European Jewish folk music) is characterized in part by scales colored by augmented seconds, and is often performed by solo instrumentalists who improvise embellishments like quick grace notes. The second, more lyrical theme in this movement is my nod to Klezmer style.While this piece is an homage to Maud Powell, I also think of it as my own musical autobiography, as it combines some of my favorite aspects of music, and is played on my own instrument.
SKU: UT.CH-64
ISBN 9790215305649. 9 x 12 inches.
Mauro Bortolotti: Lâ??impervia, pervia viaMauro Cardi: ImpromptuFabrizio Casti: Lâ??Anima VisionariaAgostino Di Scipio: EktoposFausto Razzi: InvenzioneItalo Vescovo: Come la quiete notturnaPerché un libro sulla musica contemporanea?Spesso capita di sentire allievi che, come ?brano contemporaneo?, suonano La Catedral di Barrios, qualche Estudio Sencillo di Brouwer o un Preludio di Villa-Lobos. Il valore di questi brani è indiscutibile, ma è altrettanto certo che essi appartengono, pur con le dovute differenze, a un linguaggio tradizionale. È convinzione del curatore che non possa più bastare il semplice dato anagrafico («In fondo Barrios è nato nel ?900...» è la tipica motivazione di quegli allievi) per definire contemporaneo un brano: è necessario possedere strumenti adatti a orientarsi nei linguaggi che gli autori elaborano ogni giorno.Il rapporto di diffidente estraneità instaurato da Andrés Segovia con la nuova musica può oggi evolversi in qualcosa di diverso: a distanza di 50 anni i chitarristi sono in grado di porsi in un atteggiamento di maggior ricettività e, non più costretti a procurarsi una ?visibilità? nel mondo musicale, possono rivolgersi più serenamente alla musica dei loro contemporanei.â??Musica Incertaâ?? cerca di rendere possibile questo mutamento di prospettiva: Arturo Tallini si è rivolto a Enrico Fubini, al musicologo Filippo Poletti e a sei compositori italiani, progettando il presente volume che è così costituito:? uno scritto di Enrico Fubini sul rapporto fra linguaggio e storici della musica;? un ponderoso scritto di Filippo Poletti che sviscera in profondità tutti gli aspetti grafici della simbologia usata negli ultimi decenni, non solo fornendo spiegazioni sull?esecuzione, ma aiutandoci a scorgere il significato del rapporto fra segno e oggetto musicale, partendo dall?impostazione del filosofo e linguista nordamericano Charles Pierce;? sei brani scritti per questa occasione da Mauro Bortolotti, Mauro Cardi, Fabrizio Casti, Agostino Di Scipio, Fausto Razzi e Italo Vescovo, tra i più rappresentativi compositori italiani dei nostri anni.Ogni brano è corredato da note dell?autore, note del curatore, indicazioni tecniche e diteggiature che aiutano l?esecutore nello studio.
SKU: ST.C463
ISBN 9790570814633.
This volume contains contrasting works by Federico Ruiz spanning quite a large and rich period of his compositional output that goes from his early Micro-Suite (1971), to lilting, sweet and rhythmic Venezuelan waltzes passing by the mysterious, intimate, and intense Nocturno (1994) plus pieces originally composed for film, and theatre. Real eclecticism in styles, moods and atmospheres that show Ruizâ??s talents and scope.The Nocturno is a deep, intriguing, substantial piece presenting a satisfying length which moves from different paths of the mind and the heart written in an abstract, chromatic idiom, that does not dissociate itself from the Venezuelan waltz and the joropo. One could perhaps say that there is a deconstruction of the latter. For the interpretation, the composer has suggested to me that it is allowed to have some flexibility in the tempo. Ruiz kindly dedicated it to me, and I have had the pleasure of performing it in many concerts.Although all highly expressive, the Three Venezuelan Waltzes present in this collection as well as the piece titled Aliseo, are works that are close to the colourful Venezuelan folk tradition. Federico Ruiz had given me two of them when we first met: â??Tu Presenciaâ?? (1981) and â??EloÃsaâ?? (1989) and then I attended a performance of the play â??Office Number Oneâ?? by Miguel Otero Silva with a fantastic actor, Elba Escobar in the role of Carmen Rosa and, I just fell in love and was very moved by the incidental music that I later discovered, by reading the programme, had been written by Federico Ruiz. Later that evening, I called him and asked to please make a piano score of the composition, so I could have the desired piece in my hands. That is how â??Carmen Rosaâ? waltz (1987) came to exist in a piano version.â??Eloisaâ?? is another Venezuelan waltz with more jazzy harmonies where precision in the rhythm and elegant playing is also essential, as it is in most of his pieces.â??Tu Presenciaâ?? was dedicated to his mother, Margarita. It is written with the structure of the Venezuelan waltz, which consists of a nostalgic subject that leads to a faster, happier middle section where the typical graceful rhythm is given by the left-hand accompaniment figure of a dotted crotchet followed by a quaver and a crotchet.The craft and magic found in the five movements of the Micro-Suite is based on a dodecaphonic row by Ernst Krenek. They remind us of the idiom of the Second Viennese School. These real miniatures seem to tell short stories. The â??Preludioâ?? is full of humour. I imagine dancing figures given by the jumps all over the keyboard and extreme dynamics; the phrases give the impression of a conversation with many questions and answers. The â??Invenciónâ?? is a kaleidoscopic piece where the hands mirror each other. The â??Passacagliaâ?? is the longest movement, at just over a minute where the prime motif is repeated three times on the bass line. For its construction Federico Ruiz uses as well the retrograde and the retrograde inversion of the twelve-tone series. It must be played expressively with dynamic contrasts between pianissimo and louder events. The â??Scherzoâ?? has repetitive motifs of a minor third in both hands and the â??Finalâ?? displays virtuosic passages for the pianist.Aliseo was originally written for the film â??Aire libreâ? (1995), by Luis Armando Roche. It contains elements of diverse types of Venezuelan joropo. In the film, the character of Aliseo Carvallo is played by the composer himself who performs this piece on a harpsichord to welcome scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland one day at the turn of the 1800â??s, as a sample of the new music from the South American land. It presents the refinement of the late European classical era in fusion with Venezuelan folk music.
