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Dimensión is a tango that was
composed based on two simple piano pieces destined to young pianists: the first
theme is "Langostango" and
the second one "Continuando".
When joining to build up "Dimensión",
additional elements came into the game, such as an important secondary melody
and a few transitions.
Dimensión is therefore a clear
example of a successful composition: a couple of good ideas and a lot of work
to achieve that nobody notices how much work lies behind it.
About the title, it obeys to my (slightly excessive) concern
towards finding names that can be understood in any language of the places I
usually am related to (i.e. in Spanish, English and German). In the case of "dimensión"
it is a transparent word, understanding
as such the words that are practically identical in any language while keeping
their meaning (there exist words that are quite similar in different languages,
but mean different things, in Linguistics these are called false friends.) Among my titles one finds several of such transparent words.
In September 2002 I began to conduct
the Orquesta No Típica at the
University of Bremen, Germany, a chamber group of variable instrumentation
devoted to tango music. Dimensión was
the first piece that I composed especially for this group, in January /
February 2003. The original version of Dimensión
is therefore for Sextet: flute, clarinet, violin, guitar, bass,
piano.
Since
that first version (performed several times in Germany and Argentina) I wrote a
long dozen of arrangements for different instrumental groups.
Dimensión for trombone octet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Uq4_PSlPI
Dimensión, in its version for trombone
octet, was awarded second prize in the competition Trombonanza 2015
(Argentina). The jury had eight members (some from Latin America, others from
USA). Members of the jury were: Fernando Deddos
(Brasil), Irvin Wagner (USA), Giovanni Scarpetta (Colombia), György Gyivicsan
(Hungary), Paul Compton (USA), Pablo Fenoglio (Argentina), Miguel Sanchez
(Venezuela), Matthew Murchison (USA) and Francisco Alaniz (Chile).
It is extremely interesting to read their eight feedbacks
about this piece and how they saw this piece so differently:
1)
Interesting composition. Some difficult range issues. And the piece does not
seem to go anywhere nor reach any conclusive direction. It has the same ideas
and texture throughout.
2) Good melodic and rhythmic ideas and good
use of all 8 trombones. Tenor ranges are good, but I would like to see
the bass trombone more in lower range.
3) Obra muy
bien logrda un 6/8 hermoso, pasando por todas las voces y registros, 4/4
tranquilo sin mayores complicaciones y fácil de apreciar y en el 8/8 me encanto
esa tensión fuerza y color.
4) The name
fits with the piece since the overall tempo is not altered, bringing to the
listener the impression of one specific "dimension" even with the contrasting
tonalities (minorXmajor). I believe some of the high range parts that are in
accompaniment and harmonic function, in a live performance, can be extremely
hard for the intended effect (ex: m. 14-18etc). One can see that the idea is
to have a constant (simplist) rhythm as an accompaniment, but I believe the
parts that are accompanying could have more expression. Good themes! I miss a
"particular language", it really reminds me Piazzolla in a lot of parts, but it
maybe should bring new information along with the intended mood? Congrats and thanks for writing for
the low brass.
5) Esta bien
escrita, los registros están muy bien
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