Pianissimo I y II para piano solo

Juan Ortiz de Zarate

2009-2010

Instructions1

All gestures in sixty-fourth notes must be played without a metronomic pulse. They

must be played very fast (and although quite freely), trying that the individual pitches

melt down into a texture. The rest of the durations are to be played after the indicated

metronome.

The rhomboidal head-notes must be played in the threshold of the audibility, less than

pppp, in the limit of pulling down the keys and not to do it. The musical idea is that

“music becomes choreography” The piece as a whole must be perceived as a continuous

motion (like a toccata), going to and fro from sounds to chorographical movements

without almost any acoustical consequences.

1- Play poco a poco crescendo until almost an ordinario playing and back to

chorographical playing. In the middle of the gesture (aprox. 2,5”) the dynamic

should be not more than pp.

1 The Spanish version of these instructions are in the first page of the score