Chamber Music Guitar SKU: PR.114410840 A Sleepless Nocturne for Guitar...(+)
Chamber Music Guitar
SKU: PR.114410840
A Sleepless Nocturne
for Guitar. Composed
by Michael Karmon. Solo
part. With Standard
notation. Composed 1998.
Duration 15 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-41084. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114410840).
UPC:
680160015689.
See
the biography of Michael
Karmon on the back
cover. WHEN THE SHEEP
WON'T COME:Â A
SLEEPLESS NOCTURNE FOR
GUITAR was composed for
Joseph Hagedorn, winner
of the 1990 GFA solo
competition, and
premiered by him in
November 1999. My
original idea was to
write a serene and moody
nocturne in several
movements. However,
as I began researching
and listening to new
guitar pieces, I came
across Toru Takemitsu's
All in Twilight, and it
immediately made a
profound impression.Â
At the time I found it
beautiful, moving, and
inspiring, but I also
felt I didn't have
anything to add to what
Takemitsu already did,
and that I needed to find
a new concept for my
piece. So, I decided
to view night as a
potentially restless
time, rather than a
serene time, and portray
states of mind one might
go through during a
sleepless night. The
names of the movements
evoke, at least in my
mind, the moods I am to
depict, and the piece
becomes progressively
more convoluted as it
goes on. By the end,
the music is a surreal
and weary shadow of the
opening.
Guitar SKU: FG.55011-325-1 Composed by Kai Nieminen. Fennica Gehrman #550...(+)
Guitar
SKU:
FG.55011-325-1
Composed by Kai Nieminen.
Fennica Gehrman
#55011-325-1. Published
by Fennica Gehrman
(FG.55011-325-1).
ISBN
9790550113251.
Rifl
essioni sul nome Amedeo
Modigliani (Omaggio a
Oscar Ghiglia) is divided
in two movements that
follow each other
attacca. The first
movement of the piece is
named by the composer
...Il
Pittore...sta...dipingend
o... (...the
painter...is...painting..
.). At the beginning of
the piece we are
introduced to the main
motif of which the notes
are reflected
(Riflessioni) from the
name of Amedeo
Modigliani. A fantasy of
timbre created by the
composer is given a
versatile interpretation
by the possibilities of
the guitar: tone material
based on an octatonic
scale is developed
further through the means
of arpeggios, pizzicatos,
glissandos and
high-pitched flageolets.
The music is searching
for direction in
imitation of a painter
searching for a subject
as the theme Modigliani
is repeated in different
registers. The second
movement is called Gli
ucelli...della ombra...
(Birds...of
twilight...).
