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).