420 Pianoforte Sollecitato. Attentazioni de Marte, Mario

Pop art musical score, consisting of a seven-page hand-colored leporello with three musical staves per page, extending the length of the volume, with colorful geometric shapes, chevrons, and lines and dots in place of traditional musical notes, with measure or time markings in groups of 60. Square 4to., approx. 10 1/4 x 10 1/4 in., original wrpps. with pasted on cover, some light soiling to cover. Siena (Edizioni Sagittarius) n.d. (circa 1969). Published on the occasion of the IX Concorso Nazionale di Composizione Pianistica Premio Città di Treviso. Mario Marte was a painter and sculptor, born in Siena in 1941. In 1969 he designed the banner for Siena's famous Palio horse race, and concert posters for the Accademia Chigiana. Around this time Marte also had several encounters with Italian composer Bruno Maderna, which first gave him the idea to create figurative works of art which were also pieces of music. A similar piece, Triomusica, was written for the Gruppo Maderna and performed in the 1980s with two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two horns, and two bassoons, with Maderna himself recording on magnetic tape. (Thanks to the website www.amicidellamusicaviareggio.it for assistance with the cataloging of this item.) As of October 2021, we could not find any listings for this work on OCLC.