About the Music

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The 3 Miniatures for flute and clarinet are similar to Stravinsky's small pieces for piano. The first, a Prelude based on diminished intervals and 7ths, is both meditative and full of dramatic tension. The second is an Allegretto which is based on the form of the Rondo mixed with structures of dances. Finally we have an invenzione a due voci which means "inventio" in two parts (or voices) that is based on the Bachian polyphony mixed with elements of modernity. The term "miniature" initially referred to middle ages paintings on manuscripts, later it was used to indicate also brief compositions in aphoristic style with a small structure as the general meaning of "musical sketch."

Duo score: 10 pages, spiral bound. Parts: 4 pages each, booklet.

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About the Composer

Luigi Rago is a composer and a pianist born in 1987 in Italy where he lives and works. In 2019 he achieved a degree in traditional composition at the State conservatory of Salerno "G. Martucci." He has been always interested in music since he was a child when he began to study piano, violin and viola. He won composition contests in Italy connected with the cultural activities of the Italian Lutheran Evangelic Church in Naples in 2014 and again in 2016 composing for solo flute and for solo violin. He published several works in Italy for Photocity editions, with Eufonia Edizioni of Brescia, with GDE editions (Rome), with Da Vinci Classics (Osaka - Japan). He would like to deepen didactic of the music and to achieve in future a graduation in it. Luigi believes that music can be a form of hope for the humankind even if contemporary music with his "bright tones" does not confirm this theory.