After L'Addio / Felt

Title

After L'Addio / Felt

Description

Argentinian composer Tomás Gueglio's "After L'Addio / Felt" was commissioned in spring 2014 and composed in collaboration with Ben Melsky.

As written on the composer's website, "After L'Addio / Felt (2014) is a two movement piece composed in collaboration with Ben. The premiere of this work took place in a recital in which a performance of Salvatore Sciarrino's "Addio a Trachis" preceded. After L'Addio features varying levels of referentiality and filiation with "Addio...", from literal quoting to variation, to more esoteric and personal connections. Generally speaking, After is a frantic and highly tactile piece in which different levels of friction between hands and strings become syntactically relevant. Felt appears as the textural opposite of After in that the contact between performer and instrument is reduced considerably: the right hand plays with a felt pick for the entirety of the movement and the left hand features, for the most part, harmonics.

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Duration: 9 minutes

Creator

Gueglio, Tomás

Source

Tomás Gueglio, "After L'Addio / Felt (2014)" (personal website), https://tomas-gueglio.squarespace.com/after-laddio

Date

2014

Format

0-10 minutes

Coverage

2000-

Instrumentation

harp / harpe

Ensemble Type

solo

Citation

Gueglio, Tomás, “After L'Addio / Felt,” Music EnLivened, accessed November 21, 2024, http://omeka.uottawa.ca/music-enlivened/items/show/199.

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