Double Bass SKU: BT.MUSM570367320 Composed by Sadie Harrison. Book Only. ...(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
BT.MUSM570367320
Composed by Sadie
Harrison. Book Only. 12
pages. University of York
Music Press
#MUSM570367320. Published
by University of York
Music Press
(BT.MUSM570367320).
English.
Sadie
Harrison's Ha
llristningsomra det
for solo Double Bass.
Composed and published
2016. Duration c. 10
minutes The area of
Tanumshede is situated on
the south western coast
of Sweden.
Archaeologically, it is
renowned for its unique
series of Bronze Age rock
carvings dating from
between c. 1800 to 500
BCE. Incised into over
600 panels, the
petroglyphs were
originally situated along
a 25 mile stretch of
fjord coastline and as
such there are many
depictions of Hjortspring
boats and seafaring
activities. There are
also scenes of hunting,
agricultural and
livestock farming and
warring, with many
armoured figures carrying
swords, axes and shields.
Whilst it is possible
tointerpret most carvings
as images of quotidian
life, the meaning of some
panels is less clear. It
is likely that several
scenes depict ritual acts
overseen by gods, often
surrounded by abstract
symbols - crosses, dots
and ‘cups’,
the significance of which
is now unknown. As well
as being a source of
information about
Scandinavian Bronze Age
weapons, vehicles, tools,
ships, even hairstyles,
the carvings have also
been the subject of
debates about gender. The
society depicted on the
rocks seems
overwhelmingly
patriarchal, making the
rare carvings of probable
female figures
particularly important.
The most famous of these
is known as The Grieving
Woman, apparently weeping
over a dead warrior from
a ship. Her grief,
‘heavy as
rocks’ is heard in
the opening movement of
the piece, echoing
through the remaining
movements and giving the
work its dark, melancholy
character. The Woman
returns in the final
movement as a ghost, her
footsteps coming closer
and closer as her
‘lover’s&rsqu
o; ship is rebuilt over
and over again. Movement
III is gentler in tone, a
song for the Woman and
her lover - depicted as a
couple rolling a giant
sun surrounded by farm
animals. Movement II
represents the enigmatic
Juggler or Calendar Man
who holds 29 spheres in
his hand - perhaps
juggling the fate of The
Grieving Woman.
Composed by J. Peter Close; Holger Sassmannshaus. Stapled. Barenreiter's Sassman...(+)
Composed by J. Peter
Close; Holger
Sassmannshaus. Stapled.
Barenreiter's
Sassmannshaus.
Instructional.
Performance score. 72
pages. Published by
Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BA9660).
(Bass Part). Composed by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For Bass. This edition: Revised. B...(+)
(Bass Part). Composed by
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For
Bass. This edition:
Revised. Book; CD;
Method/Instruction;
String - Bass (Suzuki);
Suzuki. Suzuki Bass
School. 20 pages.
Published by Alfred Music
Double Bass SKU: BT.YE0030 Composed by F. Keyper. Exam Material. Book Onl...(+)
Double Bass
SKU:
BT.YE0030
Composed by
F. Keyper. Exam Material.
Book Only. Yorke Edition
#YE0030. Published by
Yorke Edition
(BT.YE0030).
An easy
virtuoso work published
here for the first time
and now much performed.
Recorded Slatford/Academy
of St
Martin-in-the-Fields
(EMI). AMEB (Australian
Syllabus) 2004.
Orchestral material on
hire from Yorke Edition
(notSpartan).
Pr
ogramme Note:
As
a young professional
player in the 1960s, my
work as a double bassist
with chamber ensembles
and small orchestras took
me all over the world.
This presented an
unparalleledopportunity
to scour libraries and
archives wherever I went.
Long before the advent of
the photocopier and
e-mail, research was far
more challenging than it
is today. Eastern Europe
was particularly
difficult to access,
withmanycollections kept
under lock and key for
all but a few hours a
week. One quickly found
colleagues who were keen
to share information
gleaned in passing, even
though they had no
specific interest in
one's own
particularspecialism (it
is so often the
peripheral topics that
fascinate as much as the
main subject under
investigation, and one
can quickly be
side-tracked into
political and social
issues that have only
slender bearing on the
job inhand!).
In
the early 1970s James
Brown, the then
sub-principal oboist of
the English Chamber
Orchestra with whom I was
working at the time,
stumbled across a small
collection of double bass
manuscripts at the
RoyalDanish State Library
in Copenhagen. They were
by Franz Anton Leopold
Keÿper (b. c.1756, d.
Copenhagen 7 June 1815),
a double bassist of Dutch
origin who worked as
principal of the Royal
Chapel Orchestra in
Copenhagen.Keÿper's son
was the bassoonist Franz
Jacob August Keÿper
(1792-1859). The
collection included a
number of concertos, some
chamber music, and
various naïve fragments.
Although hardly the work
of a Mozart or Haydn,the
style is characteristic
of the period. For an
instrument such as the
double bass, whose 18th
century solo repertoire
is largely written for
tunings that are no
longer in everyday use,
Keÿper's music is easily
approachablein its.
(Bass Part). Composed by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For Bass. This edition: Revised. B...(+)
(Bass Part). Composed by
Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For
Bass. This edition:
Revised. Book; CD;
Method/Instruction;
String - Bass (Suzuki);
Suzuki. Suzuki Bass
School. 24 pages.
Published by Alfred Music