David Ocker played a piece of Francesco Zappa's music for Frank Zappa because it was popular with some college music students. Because Francesco's music was not published and could only be found in the Mormon library, Frank decided to publish it. He then programmed some of these pieces into his new Synclaviersynthesizer.[3]
Francesco Zappa was the first full album on which Frank used the Synclavier,[4] but Synclavier pieces appeared on The Perfect Stranger earlier that year, as well as Thing-Fish, also released in 1984 but recorded earlier.
Track listing
All selections composed by Francesco Zappa.
Side one
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Opus I: No. 1 1st Movement: Andante"
3:32
2.
"Opus I: No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro con brio"
1:27
3.
"Opus I: No. 2 1st Movement: Andantino"
2:14
4.
"Opus I: No. 2 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso"
2:04
5.
"Opus I: No. 3 1st Movement: Andantino"
1:52
6.
"Opus I: No. 3 2nd Movement: Presto"
1:50
7.
"Opus I: No. 4 1st Movement: Andante"
2:20
8.
"Opus I: No. 4 2nd Movement: Allegro"
3:04
Side two
No.
Title
Length
9.
"Opus I: No. 5 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso"
2:29
10.
"Opus I: No. 6 1st Movement: Largo"
2:08
11.
"Opus I: No. 6 2nd Movement: Minuet"
2:03
12.
"Opus IV: No. 1 1st Movement: Andantino"
2:47
13.
"Opus IV: No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro assai"
2:02
14.
"Opus IV: No. 2 2nd Movement: Allegro assai"
1:20
15.
"Opus IV: No. 3 1st Movement: Andante"
2:24
16.
"Opus IV: No. 3 2nd Movement: Tempo di minuetto"
2:00
17.
"Opus IV: No. 4 1st Movement: Minuetto"
2:10
Personnel
Performed by The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort (Frank Zappa, conductor)
