Tiny steps (2022)
for cello
Commission: Associazione Amici della Musica Foligno
Dedicated to: Michele Marco Rossi
Instrumentation: Cello
Duration: 5 min.
Première: 30 October 2022 @ Oratorio del Crocifisso, Foligno (IT). Michele Marco Rossi (Vc)
Publisher: Casa Ricordi
Program Text
High on the strings, within the small space between adjacent natural harmonics, fingers move in tiny steps, slightly ‘tilting’/shifting their weight from a static position.
The title refers - with opposite logic - to John Coltrane's ‘Giant Steps’ (1960), in which its iconic harmonic path is characterized by large leaps (major thirds).