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Malmignatte,
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The Malmignatte is an extremely poisonous spider. In the southern Italian town of Taranto, people who had been bitten by a spider would dance the Tarantella, a wild dance that was either a cure for the bite or simply the result of it, depending on which story you believe. The spider responsible was for a long time thought to be the conspicuously hairy Tarantula, a relatively harmless creature, but the real culprit was the much smaller Malmignatte. 'Malmignatte' is a virtuosic solo for guitar, using a scordatura tuning (f', b, g, e, A, D). It begins rhapsodically, and includes a fugue and a whirlwind Tarantella episode. |
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| Awaiting first performance. Selected for the spnm shortlist, 1997 |
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