Cello

SKU: HL.14028929

Composed by David Blake. Music Sales America. Classical. Book [Softcover]. Music Sales #NOV120425. Published by Music Sales (HL.14028929).

Written for Moray Welsh whilst still an undergraduate at York University. This piece was completed in mid-September. Inspired by Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf. A solo 'cello seemed an appropriate medium for music which might explore the character of Harry Haller, with his desire for bourgeois comfort and his strong misanthropic and suicidal tendencies. The opening theme attempts to express this - melancholy, nostalgic, a bit Biedermeyer (cf. Brahms Intermezzi). The basic theme of the book, at its simplest, is that every human personality consists of hundred of different personalities - within every man there lurks a wolf. Accordingly the tendency of my piece is for all its musical material to become distorted, either by thematic transformation or by changes of timbre. There are three movements played without a break. The first is a character portrait of the Steppenwolf. The second is concerned in the most general sort of way with the dance elements in the novel - Harry's being taught to dance and appreciate low 'popular' music - a tango is recapitulated in a waltz and 'Yearning', a popular song of the time (1927) is hinted at. The third movement concerns the Masked Ball and the Magic Theatre. Mozart is one of Hesse's great loves and he is repeatedly mentioned in the book. Inevitably some Mozart quotes have been worked in, the most significant being a reference to The Magic Flute 'fire and water' flute theme in the middle of the second movement. Long before I finished the piece, I was disenchanted with the work of Hesse. Much of Steppenwolf I now find rather embarrassing and the claims currently made for Hesse's greatness seem to me exaggerated. Since my piece is in no important sense programmatically specific, this change of heart doesn't really matter. ~ David Blake.

By Rick Mooney. String - (Suzuki) Supplementary. 104 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Cello solo

SKU: BR.EB-9135

Composed by Nicolaus A. Huber. Solo instruments; stapled. Edition Breitkopf. World premiere: Furth, November 8, 1998. Music post-1945; New music (post-2000). Score. Composed 1998. 12 pages. Duration 10'. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 9135. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-9135).

ISBN 9790004182550. 12 x 9 inches.

Immer wieder stelle ich beim Horen und beim Beobachten von Horhaltungen in Proben und Konzerten fest, dass wir uns im Zeitalter der Medien so an das Horen uber Lautsprecher (Schallplatte, CD, Video, Radio, Fernsehen etc.) gewohnt haben, dass durch die Alltaglichkeit solcher Klangbilder das Empfinden fur die Qualitat RAUM fast verkummert ist. Lautsprecher simulieren RAUM bereits in ihrer Sende-Information. Ihre Fahigkeit, Raumlichkeit aus dem realen RAUM, in den sie ihren Klang abstrahlen, zu gewinnen, ist dagegen ausserst gering. Umgekehrt scheint es in der Natur des Instrumentalklangs zu liegen, vollkommen im RAUM aufgehen zu konnen, gerade in ihm das Neue, Einmalige seines Klingens zu finden und mit ihm erst das Klangleben aufbauen zu mussen. Im Prozess des ,,..... in die Stille-Gehens hat der Cellist Tone und Klange zu realisieren, die bis zum siebenfachen Piano reichen. Dies sollen jedoch keine Lautstarken sein, die eine blosse Erweiterung der Lautstarkenskala ins Unhorbare sind, sondern eher die Realisierung einer besonderen Form von RAUM-KLANG. Die Wirkung des Instruments als Ort der Abstrahlung verringert sich dadurch zugunsten eines Klangs, der sozusagen nur noch im RAUM alleine, wie ,,insistierend, vorhanden zu sein scheint. Es ist die schwebende Prasenz einer Beinahe-Lautlosigkeit wie etwa im Goethe-Vers ,,In allen Wipfeln spurest du/kaum einen Hauch. Je lautloser, desto prasenter! (Nicolaus A. Huber, 27. Juli 1998) Bibliography : ,,Es gibt Dinge, die sind richtig, aber sie ruhen. Nicolaus A. Huber im Gesprach mit Michael Struck-Schloen , in: MusikTexte, Heft 154 (August 2017), S. 31-37.

World premiere: Furth, November 8, 1998.