Fabrizio Marchionni
Variations on a Standard Song I
(My Funny Valentine) (2008)
for piano
Duration: 14'
Solos:
piano
Variations on a Standard Song I
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Work introduction
A tribute to Richard Rodgers (1902-1979).
The different series of Variations on Standard Songs, a tribute to the great songwriters of the 20th century, are conceived as improvisations written on the
harmonic scheme of the theme, a scheme that is constantly enlarged through the substitution of the original chords, a very frequent practice in the
of jazz improvisation, here applied to the compositional technique of continuous variation.