Chamber Music Bass
Clarinet
SKU:
PR.114424270
Composed
by Carter Pann.
Performance Score.
Duration 4 minutes.
Theodore Presser Company
#114-42427. Published by
Theodore Presser Company
(PR.114424270).
ISBN
9781491137772. UPC:
680160691562.
In
this short and wild ride
free of barlines,
Pann’s fantasical
imagination gives bass
clarinetists an
excitement-packed
adventure. The composer
has written, “As these
four pages progress, the
music tries to achieve
higher and even higher
perches through twists
and turns, different
genres, and varied
extended techniques until
finally the player
reaches the zenith atop a
culminating arpeggio.
RAMP is a piece of
virtuosity for aspiring
musicians, lasting 3-4
minutes.”.
Ramp was
commissioned by
clarinetist Gleyton Pinto
at the University of
Colorado - Boulder during
the Fall of 2023. He had
recently acquired a new
bass clarinet and planned
to record an album of new
works into the winter
months. This was my first
non-piano solo work in
decades, and the
challenge of writing such
a work never escaped my
acknowledgment. As these
four pages progress, the
music tries to achieve
higher and even higher
perches through twists
and turns, different
genres, and varied
extended techniques,
until finally the player
reaches the zenith atop a
culminating arpeggio.
Ramp is a piece of
virtuosity for aspiring
musicians, lasting 3-4
minutes.
