Stafylakis: Focus

• Composer: Haralabos (Harry) Stafylakis (1982-)
• Format: Score & Set of Parts - Format guide
• Instrumentation: Guitar I, Guitar II
• Work: Focus (2019)
• Binding:
• Size: 9.4 x 13.0 inches
• Pages: 12

Description

Focus is an ode to my love of both metal and classical musics passions I share with my friends Steve Cowan and Adam Cicchillitti, the two guitarists to whom it is dedicated. The piece is set in two movements. The first, Radial Glare, leans heavily on the metal end of the spectrum, deploying both classical and electric guitar idioms in an unrelentingly virtuosic, ferociously extroverted stream of sound and tight ensemble work. The second, Inward Gaze, shifts over to the classical domain, exploring the more delicate and coloristic qualities of the nylon-string guitar, while building on a thematic foundation drawn from one of the most beautiful works in Western music history: the second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

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