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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

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 Photo by courtesy of Cristiano Alessandretti

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS • Due pezzi laconici (2011) → Independence and cooperation of hands. • Pitch- and action-oriented semiography

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS • Persistenza della memoria (2013) → Memory and perception of music • Pitch-oriented semiography

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS • In itinere (2017-18) → Gesture = movement aimed to produce sound

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI MAIN GUITAR WORKS Movement Notation GESTURE Sound

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI STUDIO 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 ALESSANDRETTI STUDIO III - CONSONUS Four semiographic aspects

STEFANO ALESSANDRETTI STUDIO III - CONSONUS Four semiographic aspects

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI Born 1961. Composer and musicologist Heritage of italian compositional modernism (Donatoni) Photo by courtesy of Silvia Acorrà

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI MAIN GUITAR WORKS • Parade for oboe, clarinet and guitar (1990) → Agressive, mercurial • Far more conventional semiographic approach

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI MAIN GUITAR WORKS • Erma (2014) → Meditative atmosphere; «tactile» approach to the instrument

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

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO The «Maderna connection» - Intertextuality (Genette) HYPOTEXT Bruno Maderna’s Y despues HYPERTEXT G. Colombo Taccani’s Rosso Fuoco

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO The «Maderna connection» - Intertextuality (Genette)

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

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

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials ( Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk ) Stasis in pulse, nightly situation

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO Donatoni’s influence – Three ways to develop materials ( Donatoni’s Presenza di Bartòk ) Stasis in pulse, nightly situation

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...

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO Second step…

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO Third step…

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO Fourth step…

GIORGIO COLOMBO TACCANI ROSSO FUOCO 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) Handout available @ www.leonardodemarchi.com