Product Description
Three
Homages for
piano solo
1 - Seduce us badly (to
Claude Debussy)
2 - Ave Verdi (to Giuseppe
Verdi)
3 - Schubertango (to Franz
Schubert)
Three
Homages
for
piano solo
1) "Seduce us
badly" is an anagram of "Claude Debussy". Stephen Porter's
project "Re-Imagining Debussy" required the work to "interact in
some way with the music or compositional spirit of Debussy". I answered by
using some of his technical devices: chords parallelisms, whole-tone scales,
brief melodic shapes, central notes and a broad multi-layered texture.
2) Ave Verdi
A miniature composed on the death-day
of Verdi (27th January 2013). The piece is based on the 7-tone "scala
enigmatica" used by Giuseppe Verdi in his Ave Maria (1889, first from Quattro
Pezzi Sacri) and its complement (the missing 5 notes), treated as
twelve-tone field. The piece is dedicated to that other Giuseppe: Lupis.
The scala enigmatica: [Do - Reb - Mi - Fa# - Sol# - La# - Si]
Complement: [Re - Mib - Fa -
Sol - La]
Original
Tone Row: 0 1 4 6 8 10 11 2 3 5 7 9
3) Schubertango
Tango music has more to do with Franz Schubert than with
any other classical composer. Harmonies and types of melody are extremely
similar. Such similarities cease, at the latest, when we come to rhythm. This
miniature shows how Schubert's melodies can be flawlessly integrated into the
musical language of tango. If one doesn't know the original pieces, you will
not even recognize at all that there is a quotation. In the score, the composer
kindly tags the sources of the quotations; nevertheless, there is also a hidden
quotation (or rather an allusion) that doesn't stem from Schubert: it is the
chord progression (not the melody) of a very well known tango of the modern
era. Do you find it?
The Schubertango
was composed in Bremen (Germany) on 28 November 2014 and has a duration of 1
minute. The piece is dedicated to pianist Stephen Porter, in the frame of his project
Re-Imagining Schubert, hosted by Vox Novus (New York City) and their
cycle Fifteen Minutes of Fame.
Juan Maria
Solare,
born 1966 in Argentina, works currently in Germany as composer, pianist
(contemporary & tango) and teaching at the University of Bremen and at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen. His
music has been performed in five continents. Find his music on Spotify, Apple
Music, Napster, etc.
https://sptfy.com/jmsolare
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