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Toccata for Double Bass and Piano (2012) bass part
Double Bass
Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. For Double Bass. 21st Century,20th Century,Romantic Period,Cl…
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Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. For Double Bass. 21st Century,20th Century,Romantic Period,Classical Period,Baroque Period. Advanced. Individual Part. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee
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Toccata for Double Bass and Piano
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Surrealisms - for solo double bass
Double Bass
Composed by Colin Bayliss (1948-). 20th Century, Comedy. 4 pages. Published by Colin Bayli…
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Composed by Colin Bayliss (1948-). 20th Century, Comedy. 4 pages. Published by Colin Bayliss (S0.38271). - - 20th Century,Comedy - Colin Bayliss
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Surrealisms - for solo double bass
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Colin Bayliss
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Concerto for Orchestra, opus 111 (2005) Contrabass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869735 Composed by Thomas O…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869735 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 7 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #6026823. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869735).
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Concerto for Orchestra, opus 111
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Missa Pro Defunctis (2018) double bass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869582 Composed by Thomas O…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869582 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 15 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #3583399. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869582). The inspiration for my Missa Pro Defunctis (2018) was Fauré's Requiem in which he ignored the fire and brimstone text of the Dies irae and Tuba mirum in the Sequence of the Requiem Mass. And consequently he created a work that is peaceful, tranquil and uplifting. I'd like to think of death in that way.So, I proceeded by taking the exact text that Fauré used in his work, and instead of a large chorus and full orchestra I decided to do a chamber version. It is scored for SATB (single voices), flute, clarinet, string quartet, double bass and harp.The movements, as in the Fauré, are:1. Introit and Requiem2. Offertory3. Santus 4. Pie Jesu5. Agnus Dei6. Libera me7. In paradisumThe entire work has a duration of ca. 27 minutes.Missa Pro Defunctis (2018) is dedicated to the residents in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.
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Missa Pro Defunctis
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Serenade Rondo (2013) Double bass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869811 Composed by Thomas O…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869811 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 8 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #6027239. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869811).
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Serenade Rondo
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Gymnopédie no. 1
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1182289 Composed …
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1182289 Composed by Erik Satie. Arranged by Rodrigo Faleiros. 19th Century,Chamber,Classical. Individual part. 1 pages. Rodrigo Faleiros #782035. Published by Rodrigo Faleiros (A0.1182289). Erik Satie Gymnopédie no. 1 sheet music for the double bass. Simplified main melody line in the original key of D major. Perfect for small concerts, classes and students.
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Gymnopédie no. 1
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Rodrigo Faleiros
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Octet for Strings (2020) double bass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869659 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869659 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 14 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5888343. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869659). There is a lot of time to compose when you are stuck at home during the Pandemic of 2020. This is the fifth work I completed under lockdown.:Trio 803 was completed on April 7, 2020Kindertodtotenlieder was completed on May 13, 2020Préludes … Hommage à C.D. was completed on June 5, 2020Chansons de Maeterlinck was completed on June 20, 2020I have always been a huge fan of the Mendelssohn Octet for double string quartet. In my search of octets on YouTube I noticed that there were a number of octets that used a double bass instead of a second cello. I thought that configuration would suit what I had in mind for my octet.Octet for Strings is in five movements.I. AdagioII. Allegro III. AdagioIV. Allegro TRIOV. AndantinoTotal duration, ca. 22 minutes.Enjoy!!!
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Octet for Strings
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Septet, opus 77 ... Variations on a Shaker Tune (1998) double bass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869611 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869611 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 11 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #4725487. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869611).
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Septet, opus 77 ... Variations on a Shaker Tune
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Wretched Waltz (Contrabass Part)
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009981 Composed …
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1009981 Composed by Calvin Ellis. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Calvin A Ellis #36357. Published by Calvin A Ellis (A0.1009981). Only the Contrabass part to this piece. Released in 2015. 3 minutes in length. Good for small chamber orchestras or string quartets. Good for parties!
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Wretched Waltz
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Symphony No. 9 ... My Imaginary London (2013-14) Double bass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869822 Composed by Thomas O…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869822 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 7 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #6027545. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869822).
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Symphony No. 9 ... My Imaginary London
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (2011) Double bass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869761 Composed by Thomas O…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.869761 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 9 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #6026885. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869761).
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Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
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Thomas Oboe Lee
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Seven Steps To Heaven (2002) contrabass part
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869697 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.869697 Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. Contemporary. Individual part. 8 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #5982655. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.869697).
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Seven Steps To Heaven
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Melodias da Cecília No. 1 (Passeio do Urso)
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928080 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928080 Composed by Ernst Mahle. Arranged by Yuri Braga. Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Yuri Braga #4745487. Published by Yuri Braga (A0.928080).
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Ernst Mahle
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Melodias da Cecília No. 1
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Yuri Braga
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Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928079 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928079 Composed by Folk Song. Arranged by Yuri Braga. Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Yuri Braga #4745477. Published by Yuri Braga (A0.928079).
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Folk Song
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Go Tell Aunt Rhody
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Yuri Braga
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Melodias da Cecília No. 10 (Valsa da Preguiça)
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928081 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928081 Composed by Ernst Mahle. Arranged by Yuri Braga. Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Yuri Braga #4745505. Published by Yuri Braga (A0.928081).
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Melodias da Cecília No. 10
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Yuri Braga
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Lightly Row
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928077 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.928077 Composed by Folk Song. Arranged by Yuri Braga. Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Yuri Braga #4745473. Published by Yuri Braga (A0.928077).
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Folk Song
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Lightly Row
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Recitative and Lament
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1124419 Composed …
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1124419 Composed by Igor Korneitchouk. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 6 pages. Studio at the Post #723415. Published by Studio at the Post (A0.1124419). Duration: 4 minutes, 4pp. Description: Recitative and Lament for Solo Double Bass and Voice is for a single performer, self-accompanied. Dedicated to Bert Turetzky. An alien's concept of a work of art, according to the science-fiction novelist Robert Heinlein: It could have been a poem, a musical opus, or a philosophical treatise; it was a series of emotions arranged in tragic, logical necessity. (Stranger in a Strange Land). NO RECORDING OF THIS PIECE EXISTS; BE THE FIRST TO RECORD THIS!
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Recitative and Lament
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Studio at the Post
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Mysteries - Bass
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017015 Composed by Mary Ho…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.1017015 Composed by Mary Hopson. Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Mr. Blob #6026153. Published by Mr. Blob (A0.1017015). Bass - Part.
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Mary Hopson
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Mysteries - Bass
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Mr. Blob
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5 (in 4) (Bass)
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.723210 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.723210 Composed by Kristin Stahlecker Heckman. Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Kristin Stahlecker Heckman #3420945. Published by Kristin Stahlecker Heckman (A0.723210). Concerto for accordion and strings. 5 premiered in Nashville, TN with Nexus Chamber Orchestra in October 2011. String parts include a substantial amount of pizzicato.
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Lamimimi for beginner string orchestra. Open strings and first finger. BASS PART.
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805478 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805478 Composed by Laura C. Quijada OrtÃz. Contemporary. Individual part. 1 pages. Laura Quijada #6536251. Published by Laura Quijada (A0.805478). Piece for the beginner performer. Can also be played as a duo, trio or ensemble (other string parts available).
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Double Bass
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Lamimimi for beginner string orchestra. Open strings and first finger. BASS PART.
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EARLY ONE MORNING (Full Orchestra) - Contrabass
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.774015 Arranged b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.774015 Arranged by Anthony Giamanco. Contemporary. Individual part. 4 pages. Whole Tone Press #6400999. Published by Whole Tone Press (A0.774015). Contrabass part - EARLY ONE MORNING - (orchestra).
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EARLY ONE MORNING
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Whole Tone Press
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Sleep Tight, My Bass
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805424 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.805424 Composed by Laura C. Quijada OrtÃz. Contemporary. Individual part. 3 pages. Laura Quijada #4350863. Published by Laura Quijada (A0.805424). A short and easy piece for the beginner bassist.
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Sleep Tight, My Bass
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Sub-Bass
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998814 Composed b…
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.998814 Composed by Robert A. Howard. 20th Century,Contemporary,Jazz,Standards. Individual part. 4 pages. Robert A. Howard #6078477. Published by Robert A. Howard (A0.998814). Sub-Bass explores the whole range of the 5-string solo double bass. The piece demands much agility from the performer, alternating in fast sections of arco and pizzicato. The work is in a rondo form, with the opening theme recurring between contrasting ideas, all related to the overall tonal centre of G. Most themes are characterised by the use of the seventh degree (in addition to the notes of the triad), which gives a touch of the blues style. There is much use of changing and irregular time signatures, as the piece explores rhythmic interplay and displacement. The work also plays with tonal ambiguity between major, minor and modality, in an almost jazz-like manner that is befitting to the double bass. This work is accessible for the listener and is appropriate for advanced double bassists, including students and professional players. Sub-Bass can even be used as a virtuosic encore.
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Icarus Also Flew: A Pairing with Beethoven's Symphony #5 - Contrabass
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018899 Composed …
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018899 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 3 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6056133. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018899). Programme Notes: Icarus Also Flew takes its title from the first line of the poem Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert. He is referring to the classical myth of Daedalus and Icarus, an inventive father and son who bravely escape from their imprisonment in a tower by collecting the disposed feathers of seabirds, then fashion wings out of them and fly away. While the story is often treated as a morality tale--listen to your elders, don’t get cocky like the young man, Icarus, who, in such an understandable state of elation, ascended too close to the sun thus causing the wings to melt and his tumbling to his Mediterranean death--what Jack Gilbert reminds us is how regardless of one’s failure, the sheer transcendental experience of mortal flight remains glorious and unforgettable. Icarus’s fall was not into a legacy of disdain and oblivion, but in truth, he had come to the end of his triumph. This piece was the first of a series I composed during the Covid-19 quarantine conditions of 2020, to serve as potential contemporary preludes for each of Ludwig van Beethoven’s nine symphonies--his two hundred and fiftieth anniversary was this year!--though they can all stand on their own on any program. The connection, in this case, is with his celebrated fifth symphony in C minor--the Fate symphony, as it is commonly known. I’ll let the listener find their own connections.About the Composer:Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.
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Double Bass
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Icarus Also Flew: A Pairing with Beethoven's Symphony #5 - Contrabass
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Benjamin Sajo
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Kommos (Lamentation) / "When the World Moved On" - Contrabass
Double Bass
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018960 Composed …
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018960 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6078717. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018960). Programme Notes: This composition was written to be considered for pairing alongside Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony #3, the Eroica, but can stand on its own virtues as an intense and slow meditation on heroism. The music is like a boiling pot on the stove that’s just began to overflow its bubbles. The first part of the title, kommos, is a Classical Greek term from Attic dramaturgy, literally meaning striking but specifically referring to beating oneself up during lamentation--ripping at the hair, gouging out the eyes--like Oedipus--slapping the forehead, and other acts amid moments of extreme emotional turmoil. For example, from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, a character bewails: Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways, my destroyer! For you have destroyed me-and utterly [...]What is this fresh woe [...]what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love's enduring, beyond all remedy? And help stands far away! We can easily imagine physical accompaniment to the script; rather than bottling up the pain, the hero lets it all explosively come out.  The second part of the title, When the world moved on, is an epigraph taken from American author Stephen King’s The Dark Tower epic. The primary setting of the novel, a world similar in many ways to our own, is experiencing a dark age where the glorious past is all but a distant memory and all good things are referred to wistfully as occurring, When the world moved on. Yet, the main protagonist, Roland, the last gunslinger, emphasizes that it is not just a figure of speech, but the literal distances between destinations have increased, the positions of the stars have changed, as well as the occurrence of other unnatural phenomena. The world has become a gulf of isolation from all corners. Taken together, this piece is a lamentation for when the world moved on. Truly completed on Yom Kippur during the Covid-19 Pandemic, being unable to fast or go to synagogue, this is my atonement.About the Composer: Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.
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