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 listeners 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.
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