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Agitato and Departure
M. A. Cruz (2010) Score and Parts

Intermediate to Advanced

The first two minutes of this piece rallies around a whole-tone mode, which to the composer, has a very “agitated” sound, especially with the way the guitars rhythmically interchange. In order to ease the listener’s tension from the mechanistic opening, the piece suddenly “departs” into pure diatonic writing within the five sharps originally presented.

The piece shifts gears again with the introduction of a new theme as the subject of a contrapuntal section and then this subject returns again over a homophonic texture.

A slow section (Lyrico) is inserted and taken from a very early solo piece by the composer and adapted here for four guitars. The two excerpts from this solo material fit perfectly within this new quartet as the theme from this music is also an ascending whole-tone scale just as the opening “agitato.” An inversion of this theme makes for a nice transition back to the beginning.



The piece ends with a coda. The final chord is the only “obvious” one chord (or B major chord) throughout the entire piece in regard to the original key.

A slow section (Lyrico) is inserted and taken from a very early solo piece by the composer and adapted here for four guitars. The two excerpts from this solo material fit perfectly within this new quartet as the theme from this music is also an ascending whole-tone scale just as the opening “agitato.” An inversion of this theme makes for a nice transition back to the beginning.

The piece ends with a coda. The final chord is the only “obvious” one chord (or B major chord) throughout the entire piece in regard to the original key.


Price:$18.00
Catalog MP422

 

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