Product Description
Juan María
Solare: Post this and neo that
a meta-toccata for
solo xylophone
Post this and neo
that means, in this piece, the coexistence of different musical languages
and techniques, such as toccata, blues, baroque or atonal (twelve-tone harmonic
fields) and everything with a tango
nuevo flair.
Sometimes, this term is slightly pejorative and usually heard
when conservative concert-goers and true-music lovers grumble about the
proliferation of superfluous aesthetic movements with prefixes such as post- or neo-, or suffixes such as -ism or -ologie. Choosing this expression
as title is actually an irony at both (conservatism and pluralism) and as such mainly
a general mockery at the urge of putting labels (possibly in order to sell
better).
If you analyze carefully, you will find styles and devices
such as post-Prokofiev, meta-tango, neo-renaissance, nano-variations, turbo-harmony,
ultra-melodism and hyper-rhythmic in this piece of crypto-music. If you analyze
even more carefully you will find nearly everything. And if you omni-analyze it,
you will find the supra-truth.
Anyway, what I
found is eight times the same structure: A A B A (whereby B is an integrated contrast); the macro form
also follows this idea of "two similar statements, one quite different, reappearance
of the first statement varied but recognizable".
Post this and neo
that for xylophone was composed in Bremen (Germany) on February 5th and 6th,
2014, encouraged by a call for works made by Samuel Stokes. The piece was selected on that call for works (6
pieces among 33), recorded by Samuel Stokes and offered at his homepage: http://www.samuelstokesmusic.com/xylophone.html
Juan María Solare
www.JuanMariaSolare.com
Alternative spelling: Post-this and neo-that
Official title in German: Post dies und Neo das
Official title in Spanish: Post esto y neo aquello
ISWC (International Standard
Musical Work Code): T-803.342.175-0
Datenbankwerknummer (GEMA):
14269626
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