Author name: Mark

La Juana is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The title looks like a woman’s name, but the dictionary gives me the translation marijuana or weed. This sheds a different light on the piece and therefore also makes the term “fleeting pieces” clearer. 😉 When you’re already high, heaven is closer. The

Buen Augurio (Good Omen) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The piece has a syncopated melody on a drone bass. For variety, there is a triplet-like rhythm variation in the middle section. I attempted to play with dynamics in the melody and letting the basses sing well in bars 13 –

Eléctrico (Electric) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The 12/8 time already suggests it: This is a piece with a clearly swinging bluesy atmosphere that would not be out of place on a steel string guitar. The ornamentations -slides on two strings- require some practice and the chords required my careful

El Cubanito is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). It is a piece with a habanera atmosphere where you have to puzzle with all those ties and the position play with open strings. Once you’ve figured that out, you have an attractive piece with an interesting modulation in the middle section. The

Aire de Antigua Milonga is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). A Milonga was originally a style for songs in two-quarter time, but also found its way into instrumental music. Milonga is called the cheerful sister of the (Argentine) Tango. That is of course relative, because I think a lot of Milongas

Cíclico (Regularly Recurring) is a piece from Diez Piezas Fugaces (10 fleeting pieces). The title suggests a repetition of patterns. That’s right, a fairly simple chord pattern develops into repeated fragments with different rhythms. I found it important to maintain the pulse carefully despite these differences.