Bass clef instruments
SKU: CY.CC2629
Rhythmic Etudes for
Bass Clef
Instruments. Composed
by David Brubeck.
Published by Cherry
Classics (CY.CC2629).
A visual
stereogram represents a
3-D image while looking
though a pair of 2-D
images. There are special
viewers that are used to
give this effect where
two images viewed through
the special device can
give a 3-D or
stereographic effect.
Brubeck's Stereograms for
Bass Clef Instruments are
musical versions of the
graphic form. Brubeck
uses familiar folk
melodies to create his
Stereograms and adds
jazzy twists to many of
them. The musical version
may contain two or three
individual parts within a
single melodic line, thus
the musical 3-D
Stereogram is created.
Bach’s
unaccompanied works have
underlying multiple parts
in them and Brubeck has
been inspired by the
Master to create a
similar texture in these
works. They are suitable
encore pieces or
performance pieces, alone
or grouped into ad hoc
suites.
Brubeck'
s music requires rhythmic
accuracy and multiple
tonal colors, and are
especially useful as
sight reading tools to
keep the performer sharp
and on his/her toes. He
has also added octave
suggestions to allow them
to be playable by the
widest array of bass clef
instruments.
Eac
h Stereogram is dedicated
to a special musical hero
in Brubeck's life.
Excellent as study etudes
or sight-reading pieces,
Stereograms can be
performed/practiced by
Trombonists, Bass
Trombonists, Tubists and
Euphoniumists.
T
he thirteen melodies used
in Volume I are: You Are
My Sunshine, This Little
Light of Mine, The Itsy
Bitsy Spider, When the
Saints Go Marching In,
Just a Closer Walk With
Thee, Frère
Jacques, On Top of Old
Smokey, If You're Happy
and You Know It, London
Bridge is Falling Down,
Twinkle Twinkle Little
Star, Jesus Loves Me,
Have You Ever Seen a
Lassie, Go Tell Aunt
Rhody.