Romanzetta, from Experience [Digital Sheet Music]

Romanzetta is taken from Experience, a piano collection by Ilio Barontini & Andrea Balzani.

About Experience

Experience was born of the cooperation between the young roman composer Andrea Balzani and the Maestro Ilio Barontini, who has coated Balzani's minimal melodic ideas with a dense polyphonic and harmonic texture. Several styles and compositional techniques co-exist in the 24 pieces of the collection, from the whole-tone scale (Suggestions, in hommage to Claude Debussy) to the dodecaphonic series (Aphorism, in hommage to Arnold Schoenberg), from jazz to ambient music (Minimal X, in hommage to Erik Satie).

"A song's asleep in everything / And it dreams on and on, / And the world begins to sing, / Once you hit the magic tone."

Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857)

Andrea Balzani is capable to extract ideas from things, people and situations and to carry them to the musical staff, in an immediate and natural way. Ilio Barontini offers him the "magic tone" of his piano mastery, "and the world begins to sing".

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