About the Piece

12x3 is a piece with a particular timbre, it has been thought for three performers who play the twelve sounds of a chromatic scale (dodecaphony). The first performer is required to play both Clarinet in Bb and Bass Clarinet. The other two play percussion. The structure of the piece has been made in two macro moments that contains both six other small pieces. There is a climax in the use of instruments that increase in the first part and decrease in the second one. It begins with a mysterious clarinet solo in adagio and ends in the same way. But during the piece the time speeds up in the first macro moment and decreases its velocity in the second part.

Score: 33 pages, spiral bound; clarinet/bass clarinet part: 4 pages, booklet format; two percussion parts: 7-8 pages each, booklet format. An extended-range instrument is NOT required for the bass clarinet portion.

About the Composer

Luigi Rago (1987) is a composer with irregular studies trained at the Salerno State Conservatory of Music “G. Martucci” where after the four-year basic study in composition he obtained the lower completion of composition for the ten-year diploma of the old system. He has always been interested in classical music as well as music applied to images, in commercial as well as academic, in folk music from the Cilento area as well as in the Sacred. DEGREE (three-year academic diploma of 1st level in traditional composition) Conservatory of Salerno (2019). In 2014 one of his compositions for solo flute was awarded at the XIV national composition competition organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Naples (audience award – Franco Caracciolo). He published a reconstruction for violin and orchestra of Bach’s concerto in D minor (Photocity Ed.); a transcription for four transverse flutes of a string quartet by Angelo Maria Benincori in collaboration with Maestro Mauro Scappini (ED. EUFONIA BRESCIA). In 2016 he won the audience prize at the composition competition organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Naples with the composition “Capriccio” for solo violin. - He published abroad with Alea Publishing (USA) [2020]. - Second academic title: (two-year II level course) in instrumentation for wind orchestra with 109/110 at the Conservatory of Salerno (2024). He published a concert for clarinet and band with MULPH publisher.