Three Homages [piano solo] Piano Solo - Digital Sheet Music

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Three Homages for piano solo

1 - Seduce us badly (to Claude Debussy)

2 - Ave Verdi (to Giuseppe Verdi)

3 - Schubertango (to Franz Schubert)

Three Homages

for piano solo

1) "Seduce us badly" is an anagram of "Claude Debussy". Stephen Porter's project "Re-Imagining Debussy" required the work to "interact in some way with the music or compositional spirit of Debussy". I answered by using some of his technical devices: chords parallelisms, whole-tone scales, brief melodic shapes, central notes and a broad multi-layered texture.

2) Ave Verdi

A miniature composed on the death-day of Verdi (27th January 2013). The piece is based on the 7-tone "scala enigmatica" used by Giuseppe Verdi in his Ave Maria (1889, first from Quattro Pezzi Sacri) and its complement (the missing 5 notes), treated as twelve-tone field. The piece is dedicated to that other Giuseppe: Lupis.

The scala enigmatica: [Do - Reb - Mi - Fa# - Sol# - La# - Si]

Complement: [Re - Mib - Fa - Sol - La]

Original Tone Row: 0 1 4 6 8 10 11 2 3 5 7 9

3) Schubertango

Tango music has more to do with Franz Schubert than with any other classical composer. Harmonies and types of melody are extremely similar. Such similarities cease, at the latest, when we come to rhythm. This miniature shows how Schubert's melodies can be flawlessly integrated into the musical language of tango. If one doesn't know the original pieces, you will not even recognize at all that there is a quotation. In the score, the composer kindly tags the sources of the quotations; nevertheless, there is also a hidden quotation (or rather an allusion) that doesn't stem from Schubert: it is the chord progression (not the melody) of a very well known tango of the modern era. Do you find it?

The Schubertango was composed in Bremen (Germany) on 28 November 2014 and has a duration of 1 minute. The piece is dedicated to pianist Stephen Porter, in the frame of his project Re-Imagining Schubert, hosted by Vox Novus (New York City) and their cycle Fifteen Minutes of Fame.

Juan Maria Solare, born 1966 in Argentina, works currently in Germany as composer, pianist (contemporary & tango) and teaching at the University of Bremen and at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen. His music has been performed in five continents. Find his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Napster, etc.