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The First Three Guitar Sonatas Of David Del Puerto, Jeremy Andrew Bass
The First Three Guitar Sonatas Of David Del Puerto, Jeremy Andrew Bass
Theses and Dissertations--Music
David del Puerto’s first three sonatas for solo guitar are large-scale, multi-movement works in a style that is at once strongly guitaristic, and highly refined with regard to harmony, melody, rhythm, and form. Del Puerto completed all three sonatas in 2015, a considerable milestone for a composer who had never before published works in this form for solo guitar. The sonatas represent a consolidation of the composer's recent style: the synthesis of modal, pandiatonic, and twelve-tone harmony; references to folkloric, popular, and classical musics; and a lucid, immediate approach to both surface rhythm and larger formal structures.
Since the development …