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FRAMEWORK
- Yepes’ and Ohana’s ten-string guitar
NEW BOUNDARIES OF TEN-STRING GUITAR LITERATURE STUDIO III BY S. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
NEW BOUNDARIES OF TEN-STRING GUITAR LITERATURE STUDIO III BY S. - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
NEW BOUNDARIES OF TEN-STRING GUITAR LITERATURE STUDIO III BY S. ALESSANDRETTI AND ROSSO FUOCO BY G. COLOMBO TACCANI Leonardo De Marchi Independent researcher www.leonardodemarchi.com Dublin Guitar Symposium, 22-23 February 2019
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FRAMEWORK
- Scanty literature → Expansion
- Ten (very) different composers
- Lack of bibliography → Interdisciplinary approach
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI
Born 1980. Composer and electronic performer
Photo by courtesy of Cristiano Alessandretti
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS
- Due pezzi laconici (2011) → Independence and cooperation of
hands.
- Pitch- and action-oriented semiography
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS
- Persistenza della memoria (2013) → Memory and perception of
music
- Pitch-oriented semiography
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS
- In itinere (2017-18) → Gesture = movement aimed to produce
sound
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS
Notation Sound Movement
GESTURE
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI STUDIO III - CONSONUS
- Cycle of twelve studies for ten-string guitar (work in
progress)
- 10-string
guitar as realm
- f
impossible resonances (only harmonics!)
- Twofold notation as in Due pezzi laconici
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI STUDIO III - CONSONUS
Four semiographic aspects
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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI STUDIO III - CONSONUS
Four semiographic aspects
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI
Born 1961. Composer and musicologist Heritage of italian compositional modernism (Donatoni)
Photo by courtesy of Silvia Acorrà
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI MAIN GUITAR WORKS
- Parade for oboe, clarinet and guitar (1990) → Agressive,
mercurial
- Far more conventional semiographic approach
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI MAIN GUITAR WORKS
- Erma (2014) → Meditative atmosphere; «tactile» approach to
the instrument
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
- Aggressive character of Parade and Memoriale (2004) for solo
guitar, with frequent changes of emotional context
- Meditative zones as in Erma and Sottotraccia (2014-15) for solo
electric guitar
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
The «Maderna connection» - Intertextuality (Genette)
HYPOTEXT Bruno Maderna’s Y despues HYPERTEXT
- G. Colombo
Taccani’s Rosso Fuoco
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
The «Maderna connection» - Intertextuality (Genette)
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials (Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk)
Exposition of the cell, growth of the organism
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials (Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk)
Growth, not development: conservation of the fragment
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials (Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk)
Stasis in pulse, nightly situation
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials (Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk)
Stasis in pulse, nightly situation
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Clearly connotated cells = cues. Similar cues build an isotopy (Greimas), or redundancy
- band. First step in creating a multi-layered net of isotopies...
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Second step…
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Third step…
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Fourth step…
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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO
Fifth step…
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CONCLUSIONS
- Highbrow poetry (coherence; borrowed from literary debate
about postmodernism)
- Two complementary approaches
- Alessandretti: transcendence (creation of a new
idiomaticity, with completely new gesture)
- Colombo Taccani: virtuosity (exploitation at the