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Ansichten eines Käfers

For guitar in scordatura

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Specifications
Region
Europe
Estimated Duration
6 - 10min
Date
1998

ISMN : 979-0-2325-2158-9

Notes on this piece

 

Heinrich Böll's "Views of a Clown" and Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" (with the "beetle" Gregor Samsa) are interwoven here to create a grotesquely melancholy portrayal of a guitar virtuoso. Enormous efforts are made on six strings (which are tuned to give intervals of 33 cents) to produce at first a microtonal "prelude", but the chords are never the right ones. Microtonal scales are played up and down with enormous contortions on the fingerboard. The old mixes with the new: The moonstruck beetle's son (Pierrot?) plays "minimalist" canzona-like chords, but he doesn't get beyond an "accompaniment": he doesn't manage to play a love song. - And there are non-European elements: Gamelan scales, or African pulsations in the last movement, but the beetle never manages to travel properly to these regions in the world, but he strives for them.

 

Instrumentation
Acoustic guitar
Recording
Flavio Virzi 2018
Score Details
Format - A4 / US Letter
Pages - 24


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