Klangbild 13 by Carlo Domeniconi

As mentioned in a previous post, the composer of Klangbild 13 is Carlo Domeniconi. A much-loved composer of the classical guitar. As you can probably tell by his name, he is an Italian born in 1947 (the same year of my own father) in Cesena, Italy. He has two degrees, one from the Pesaro Conservatory and another from Erich Bürger. His output focuses mainly on the guitar and ensembles featuring the guitar. His much-played Koyunbaba is the result of Indian and Turkish-Arabic musical forms and tonal systems^[1]https://www.edition-margaux.com/de/domeniconi-carlo.

Publications of Klangbild 13

The original of this piece is from Domeniconi’s Klangbilder: 24 Leichte Stücke für Gitarre ^[2]https://www.edition-margaux.com/en/de/epigramme-band-2. The arrangement here of this piece is from the original but does not appear in the Royal Conservatory series. In the 2013 and 2018 editions, it is labeled Preparatory. The piece is copyrighted and therefore I cannot offer my own copy for you to download.

About The Piece

Klangbild 13 maintains a tonal center around A minor. Technically the piece plays on the idea of repeating figures alternating harmony using the thumb and index fingers. These are followed by pseudo melody notes on the upper strings. There are also simultaneous thumb and finger movement sections as well as chordal cadences. Again, this is one of Domincioni’s Sound Pictures. It does not follow a standard melody line but takes the sound as a whole to express the auditory image.

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I have two degrees in guitar performance and was privileged to study under Aaron Shearer, Tom Kikta, David Skantar, Ken Karsh, Tim Bedner, and currently Christopher Berg. Outside my editorial work on this blog, I teach full-time across many genres including classical, jazz, blues, rock, funk, and metal.