Marco De Biasi performs Scribbles Etude by Simone Fontanelli (b.1961) which is a new music project in collaboration with Roma Expo Guitars. This comes via Roma Expo Guitar’s YouTube channel. I like the highly expressive contrasts in this work and De Biasi’s concise delivery. Score available here.
Here’s the YouTube description of the work by the composer.
All my works share a constant feature: the musical ‘gesture’, which is also at the origin of this piece. This gesture may appear in several ways. It can be brief and concise as at the beginning of this piece, and then can become more and more complex and articulated. In all cases musical gesture creates situations within a process of transformation. As in a scene, the guitar is here like a character acting through this or that gesture, a protagonist on the stage evolving throughout the piece in a sort of rhapsodic, narrative form. The character of ‘narration’ is a basic element. Scribbles Etude, for instance, goes through different continuous moments of a story where several situations occur and several emotions are involved. None of them goes lost. At the end, in a sort of short Coda, the guitar takes us into a dreamy and melancholic atmosphere. – Simone Fontanelli
