Bassoon and Piano SKU: ST.C183 Composed by Graham Sheen. Wind & brass mus...(+)
Bassoon and Piano
SKU:
ST.C183
Composed by
Graham Sheen. Wind &
brass music. Clifton
Edition #C183. Published
by Clifton Edition
(ST.C183).
ISBN
9790570811830.
Drunken Sailor —
the
sequel This
needs a plaintive tone
especially in the upper
register where the
dynamics are particularly
important. To capture the
mood of the piece those
slurs in bars 35 and 36,
for example, might even
be close to a glissando.
Use your imagination to
recreate the sailor’s
state of
health!
Th
e Vulgar
Boatman Not
only more hidden melodies
but more appalling puns!
(Volga Boatman for those
not versed in Russian
folksongs). This is like
a waltz: it is written in
3/4 time but played so as
to give the impression of
one beat in bar. The
melodies need to be well
sustained so that we hear
four, eight or even more
bars as a single phrase.
Clues for the musical
detective:- in addition
to the Volga Boatman, you
might spot just a hint of
Sailing down the
River on a Sunday
Afternoon, We
Sail the Ocean Blue
(H.M.S. Pinafore),
The Eton Boating
Song and even
Wagner’s Flying
Dutchman.
Last Tango in
Harris Everyo
ne must surely know these
thinly disguised Scottish
tunes, but can you make
them sound like a tango?
Bear in mind that tangos
are not jazz: the rhythm
is quite strict, but the
tango character is in the
tone and the phrasing.
Notice how expressive the
occasional shorter note
value can be, as in bars
4 and 5 in the bassoon
part.
Rheu
manian
Stretches Or
was that Rumanian
Sketches? This is a
chance to play the main
melody in two registers
of the bassoon. Try to
make a good even sound in
both octaves. This piece
requires careful counting
since the phrases in the
bassoon part don’t
always begin where you
might expect. Think of
this piece as a
song. Four Pieces for
Bassoon and
Piano
Sonata Basson, Piano (duo) PWM (Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne)
Bassoon; Piano Accompaniment (Score and Solo Part) SKU: HL.253938 Bass...(+)
Bassoon; Piano
Accompaniment (Score and
Solo Part)
SKU:
HL.253938
Bassoon
and Piano. Composed
by Jó and zef
Swider. PWM. Classical.
Softcover. 32 pages.
Polskie Wydawnictwo
Muzyczne #12020010.
Published by Polskie
Wydawnictwo Muzyczne
(HL.253938).
9.0x12.0
inches.
Sonata for
bassoon and piano is one
of Swiders first works
for a wind instrument. It
was written most probably
in the years 1953-1954,
under a clear influence
of neo-classicist
stylistics. The only
documented performance
took place on 5th May
1955 in Katowice, or
Stalinogrod, as such was
the name of that city in
those days. The first
part of Sonata is written
in a form of scherzando
of a light and witty
character, where the
composer fully uses the
facture and bassoons
sound potential. The
second part, full of
meditation and cantilena,
bears a particular
expression of lower
registers of the
instrument. Part three is
a traditional minuet in
moderato tempo, with
stylised folk elements in
the middle fragment. The
last part resumes the
scherzo form, capped by a
cadenza written by Marek
Baranski, in which
attempting to imitate the
language of Jozef
Swider's compositions
that include numerous
elements of a synthetic
finale he included most
music concepts outlined
in the entire Sonata.