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Author(s): Ricardo Osuna
Presentation: performance
The electric guitar is an instrument most often associated with genres of popular music that is seldom explored by even the most avant-garde of classical composers. Some of the most notable exceptions are the work of the Los Angeles Electric 8 (a contemporary electric guitar octet), and Steve Reich’s seminal composition “Electric Counterpoint.” “Nightly Daydream” is one movement of a series of pieces composed for my Senior Music Project Presentation that features the electric guitar in a manner that draws equal influence from classical and popular music traditions. This particular piece features a contrapuntal, two-voice texture, derived from my studies of J.S. Bach’s Baroque suites for the lute, alongside melodic and harmonic language that utilizes extended tertian sonorities and subtle dissonances that are much more characteristic of the jazz idiom. Additionally, the piece juxtaposes two rather different kinds of musical phrases. The ‘A’ section of the song’s form features lines that emulate the feeling of perpetual motion that is characteristic of Baroque music, while the ‘B’ section features much shorter and predictable phrases that are characteristic of jazz, rock, and other genres of popular music. A performance will be given, followed by a brief question and answer session.
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