{"id":364,"date":"2016-01-26T10:05:02","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T09:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/?p=364"},"modified":"2024-07-12T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T15:43:01","slug":"nosce-te-ipsum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/nosce-te-ipsum\/","title":{"rendered":"Nosce Te Ipsum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-777\" src=\"http:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nosce-te-ipsum.png\" alt=\"nosce te ipsum\" width=\"534\" height=\"760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nosce-te-ipsum.png 534w, https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nosce-te-ipsum-250x356.png 250w, https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nosce-te-ipsum-126x180.png 126w, https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nosce-te-ipsum-211x300.png 211w, https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/nosce-te-ipsum-351x500.png 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><strong>Nosce te ipsum<\/strong> \u2013 ancient motto, originally engraved on the Delphi\u2019s temple.<\/p>\n<p>Its meaning is much debated, the most widely accepted being \u201cMan, know your limits\u201d.<br \/>\nHere lies therefore the basic idea of this piece: <strong>how would the meaning of this motto change should the subject no longer be the man, but the composer? What are the limits of the composer?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here we have a twofold answer.<\/p>\n<p>First, every composer needs to confront himself with J.S. Bach, and with lots of intellectual honesty he needs to admit his own limits in comparison to him.<br \/>\nSecondly, we also need to realise that Bach himself had some limits, due to the modest technical means of the time.<\/p>\n<p><em>For this reason I composed a fantasia and a choral on a fragment from Bach<\/em>, basing the whole piece on a set of \u201cmutations\u201d from the theme and from the thematic material, while also using a good deal of contemporary effects which allow the fragment to evolve and develop, exploiting thus all the instrument capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>In accordance with this inner search for our own limits, I have sometimes hidden the sonic results of the written multiphonics, thus forcing the performer to find each time the right sound.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nosce te ipsum \u2013 ancient motto, originally engraved on the Delphi\u2019s temple. Its meaning is much debated, the most widely accepted being \u201cMan, know your limits\u201d. Here lies therefore the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musica-solistica"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanoteani.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}