A Bright Moon Makes A Little Daytime

Solo guitar piece for Marco Cappelli

In 2002/2003, Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli contacted me about a series of commissions he was curating for solo guitar. During one of his trips to NYC, Marco showed me his modified guitar. It is a acoustic 6-string guitar with 8 additional sympathetic strings across body. After improvising with this guitar for a while, I came up with a tuning for the sympathetic strings that I found very inspiring (the tuning is presented as the first 8 pitches in section 2).

Computer scores and mp3 versions are presented below. The piece calls for improvisation which of course can't be heard in these computer renditions. I'm looking forward to the live performances so that perhaps we can get some live recordings posted on this site.

Thanks Marco for the opportunity to write this new piece for you!

And thanks to my son Leo who came up with the title of the piece "A Bright Moon...".

- Nick Didkovsky, July 26, 2003, NYC



A Bright Moon Makes A Little Daytime

I Hammertoes

  • JMSL Score (requires JSyn plugin http://www.softsynth.com/jsyn/plugins/)
  • MP3 (computer performance)

    II Poker face alters conversation

  • JMSL Score
  • MP3 (computer performance)

    III The Ass's Demise

  • JMSL Score
  • MP3 (computer performance)


    Scores (Acrobat Reader [pdf] format).

    A Bright Moon Makes A Little Daytime, (c) 2003 Nick Didkovsky / Punos Music (BMI)

    * Java Music Specification Language (C) 1997-2003 Nick Didkovsky and Phil Burk, visit http://www.algomusic.com
    * JSyn (C) 1997 Phil Burk, visit http://www.softsynth.com


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