Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: El Sueo de la Razn Produce Monstruos for Guitar (Score video)

XVIII. El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters) (Plate No. 43) Among Goya’s most famous images, this has been considered as one of the artist’s self-portraits. The man, either sleeping or dreaming (sueño in Spanish carries both meanings), is surrounded by evil-looking owls, a sinister lynx with pointed ears, and bat-like creatures. The music takes the form of a short Chaconne with five variations. Variation 1 deploys rapid arpeggios accompanying the Chaconne theme. Variation 2 moves into triplet patterns while Variation 3 uses the Chaconne in the bass against treble scale passages. The next Variation brings the theme back into the treble against a busy accompaniment before Variation 5, marked con fuoco (with fire) offers a chordal exploration in quavers of the insistent theme. The final recapitulation is ‘very slow and solemn’. Davide Giovanni, guitar ------------------------------------------------ The videos published in this chan