Manuel De Falla - Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Debussy - Francesco Teopini - Classical Guitar

This is one of the most important and remarkable pieces ever written for classical guitar: Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Debussy by Manuel De Falla..... I am playing the original version published by La Revue Musicale in 1920.......

As Suzanne Demarquez explains: "Falla's piece is a funeral dirige, a symbolic threnody, so frequent in Spanish poetry, influenced by the musical essence and spirit of his departed friend (Debussy). Its harmony rests on the fundamental fourth f the typical -and so beautiful- chord of the guitar , E-A-D-G-B. Falla places a short rhythmic phrase on this fourth, a kind of muted and bitter lamentation which resounds like a knell throughout the piece. Several echos of Iberia (symphonic poem by Debussy) form the beginning of a theme, a brief motif in triplets marked by the characteristic chromaticism and the augmented second (bars 8-15). The special resources of the guitar are skilfully exploited through arpeggios, very open chords, glissando scales, punteado effects, and octave harmonics........the Piu Calmato ending sets in bold relief, like a brief ray of moonlight, the clear appearance of a textual citation of the habanera motif, evoking "La Soiree dans Grenade". It is followed by a brief pause. The knell sounds for the last time and gradually fades away in the silence."

A last thing for my guitar colleagues: my way of playing this piece can sound fast at the beginning ( I was used to listen to many performances which play it much slower)... but actually, I am doing what De Falla writes on the score: quarter note at 60 of metronome, MESTO E CALMO (rueful and calm)...so I just tried to be as faithful as possible to the score.....I hope u will like it :-D

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