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NEW BOUNDARIES OF TEN-STRING GUITARLITERATURE

«STUDIO I I I » BY S . ALESSANDRETTIAND «ROSSO FUOCO» BY G. COLOMBO TACCANI

Leonardo De Marchi

Independent researcher

www.leonardodemarchi.com

Dublin Guitar Symposium, 22-23 February 2019

FRAMEWORK

• Yepes’ and Ohana’s ten-string guitar

FRAMEWORK

• Scanty literature → Expansion

• Ten (very) different composers

• Lack of bibliography → Interdisciplinary approach

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI

Born 1980. Composer and electronic performer

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STEFANO ALESSANDRETTIMAIN GUITAR WORKS

• Due pezzi laconici (2011) → Independence and cooperation of

hands.

• Pitch- and action-oriented semiography


• Persistenza della memoria (2013) → Memory and perception of

music

• Pitch-oriented semiography


• In itinere (2017-18) → Gesture = movement aimed to produce

sound


Notation

Sound

Movement

GESTURE

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTISTUDIO III - CONSONUS

• Cycle of twelve studies for ten-string guitar (work in

progress)

• 10-string guitar as realm of impossible resonances (only

harmonics!)

• Twofold notation as in Due pezzi laconici

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTISTUDIO III - CONSONUS

Four semiographic aspects

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI

Born 1961. Composer and musicologist

Heritage of italian compositional modernism (Donatoni)

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GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANIMAIN GUITAR WORKS

• Parade for oboe, clarinet and guitar (1990) →Agressive,

mercurial

• Far more conventional semiographic approach

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANIMAIN GUITAR WORKS

• Erma (2014) → Meditative atmosphere; «tactile» approach to

the instrument

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANIROSSO 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


The «Maderna connection» - Intertextuality (Genette)

HYPOTEXTBruno Maderna’s Y

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HYPERTEXTG. Colombo

Taccani’s Rosso Fuoco


The «Maderna connection» - Intertextuality (Genette)


Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials

(Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk)

Exposition of the cell, growth of the organism




Growth, not development: conservation of the fragment




Stasis in pulse, nightly situation


Clearly connotated cells = cues. Similar cues build an isotopy (Greimas), or redundancyband. First step in creating a multi-layered net of isotopies...


Second step…


Third step…


Fourth step…


Fifth step…

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

highest degree of the existing idiomaticity)

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