Fabrizio Marchionni
Variations on a Standard Song II
(Sophisticated Lady) (2009)
for piano
Duration: 20'
Solos:
piano
Variations on a Standard Song II
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Work introduction
A tribute to Duke Ellington (1899-1974).
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.