Camilo : 19.05 – 5’ antes del nacimiento de Apolo : DOz

Camilo

Les Productions D’Oz: 4 pages

This 3 minute piece apparently won the IX Concurso Internacional de Composition para Guitarra ‘Manuel de Falla’

It has a 1^st string tuned to a quarter – tone under E, and a 6^th string tuned to C. This in itself is a tad unusual, especially the instruction to not just tune string 1 to Eb, but to tune it a quartet tone lower than E, an instruction I have never seen before on any music .

As for the title it translates as 19.05 – 5 minutes before the birth of Apollo. The music is without key signature, and has a number of different time signatures throughout its 58 bars. The lack of a key signature is quite simply because this music is atonal throughout and has no key structure at all. The rhythms in the entire piece are complex throughout and the multiple use of deliberate sonic                ‘crunches’ continuous throughout.

If you like music in this style then you would have to be a really good player to commit to playing it, because it really is not for the faint hearted!

Chris Dumigan