Harlequin in Love | guitar solos by Frank A. Wallace

Harlequin in Love is a collection of five pieces in E. Written at separate times, the pieces came together through performances and seemed to tell a story. That story line ,and thus the titles, emerged from the pieces themselves. I have played the fool in a staged commedia del arte performance called The Lost Spindle. Perhaps I have played it in real life as well, I’ll let my friends and family determine that – but haven’t we all!

I. He Fools
II. He Pines
III. He Loves
IV. On the Sol, in Mi
V. He Flees

On the Sol, in Mi is a pun referring to the G-string of the guitar, on which most of the melody is played, and the song is in the key of E Major. It is conceived along the lines of my other Single String Studies. He Pines involves a long section of a left hand alone ostinato with melodies in harmonics or pressing the frets with the i finger of the right hand while plucking with the a finger.