Composer: Frank Wallace
Description: I first met Edel Muñoz at the 2011 St. Joseph Guitar Festival – he was back to do his “winner’s concert”, but I missed it. Fortunately, we met again at Classical Minds in Houston in June 2012 at which point we got to hear each others’ concerts. Edel is one of the most suave and subtle but powerful players I have ever heard. I was thrilled that he asked me to write a piece for him.
I had developed some techniques of generating ideas over the past few years that worked extremely well, but for some reason I tossed those ideas out the door and just wrote from pure inspiration. This is the result, a piece making use of the octatonic scale, my first use of the “diminshed” scale in a piece that alternates between dramatic chordal outbursts and flowing bass melodies. Overall Black Falcon is in two sections: Larghissimo in 4/2 and Allegro in 12/8.
Opus #: 75
Instrumentation: Solo Guitar
Era: 21st Century
Form: Fantasy
Type of Work: Solos
Nationality: American
Parts: Score
Pages: 7
Written: March, 2013, for Edel Muñoz
Duration: 9 minutes
Skill level: Difficult
Publisher: Gyre Publications
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