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| Jan Alm QUARTET FOR DOUBLE BASSES No. 2 |
This piece was awarded in the Indianapolis Composition Contest 2001 and received positive reviews in DoubleBassist Magazine - Summer 2004 . Advanced level of playing required.
Review from Double Bassist
Summer 2004 Issue, Number 29
Quartet no.2 for db quartet
We played Swedish bass player, composer and teacher Jan Alm's first double bass quartet at the UK Bass Club summer course in 1999, where Alm was invited as guest tutor. Our event encouraged him to write this second quartet and the first two movements were played in 2000 at the Bass Club, The work was completed in 2001 and won the International Society of Bassists composition contest.
Each player is given an equal part across the four movements. Having been conceived as a string quartet, it is not a work that finds a single top part playing high and the other parts providing what might be considered 'boring' supporting roles. Alm's style of writing shows his love of harmony and uses very characteristic enharmonic changes - there is clear influence from the Romantics. As a bassist himself, his writing is perfectly idiomatic and although a lot of it is virtuosic. It is all playable.
The piece opens with sensitive part-writing around a dotted figure interspersed with a quaver motif, which runs throughout the work. This is developed and opens out into a rhythmic section with answering fragments before a main tune. Influences from Alm's early days as a jazz pianist slip in for a few bars before a revisit to the earlier melodic material. There is a charming pizzicato meno mosso before an accelerando to the closing section of the movement. Near the end the texture is light, and there is a nice moment where answering pairs have a quaver figure off the string which is always fun to rehearse, This movement is particularly well suited to stand alone performance in a concert.
The second movement, as with the fourth, has a happy, summer sense of fun. It begins with an introduction with arpeggios across the parts, in 2/2 before a 6/8 moderate, which is full of rhythmic drive and clever use of unisons and chromatic passages. There is a wonderful climax before an F major flourish downwards preceding a very effective subito meno mosso.
An atmospheric andante third movement reveals some gorgeous melodic writing. It is beautifully written with some lovely rhythmic twists of fours against threes and is challenging to get in tune. The mood is thoughtful but always hopeful and finishes with some effective false harmonics in the first part. The work concludes with a driving rhythmic sense where the triplet figure holds attention - again a very nice melody well treated throughout. In the middle there is quite a tricky syncopated passage where the second and fourth bass answer each other, Endless rehearsal fun can be had with the passage.
This work is one of the best examples of well-crafted meticulous quartet writing by an artist who understands the instrument. The main test is that, if played well, it stands as a piece of music, not just another bass piece, and can be enjoyed by any audience.
Finally, you might like to note its presentation. The score and the parts are beautifully written by hand and the cover is reproduced from a painting that Alm created himself.
Reviewed by CAROLINE EMERY |
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| Flex-Ability Holiday Collection |
Fills the need for multi-level instrumentalists to play together. The books contains 11 songs in four part score form. The top, solo line is for the most advanced level; the second, harmony line is for the next most advnaced; the third, harmony line is more for an internediate player and the fourth bass part is for a beginner, (only whole, half, dotted half, quater notes and rests). Optional octaves and cues are included to allow for range of ability.
Songs include:
Jingle Bells
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Nuttin' for Christmas
Frosty the Snowman
I'll Be Home for Christmas
Angels We Have Heard on High
Joy to the World
We Wish You a Little Christmas
Auld Lang Syne
Chanukah Medley
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| Baroque Collection for Double Bass Quartet (Buckley) arr. White |
The BAROQUE COLLECTION for Double Bass Quartet
Arranged and Edited by Carolyn White
Includes parts and minture score.
Contents:
1. Rondeau from "Abdelazar" - Henry Purcell
2. Adagio - Tommaso Albinoni
3. Polonaise, Double, Menuet, and Badiniere (from Orchestral Suite #2) - J.S. Bach
4. Bourree (from " The Water Music Suite in F") - G.F. Handel
5. Hornpipe (from "The Water Music Suite in D") - G.F. Handel
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| The Classical/Romantic Collection for Bass Quartet Vol. II |
The Classical/Romantic Collection for Bass Quartet Vol. II
Arranged and Edited by Carolyn White
1. March of the Priests (1791) - W. A. Mozart
2. Cobra Dance #1 (1802) - L.V. Beethoven
3. Pizzicati from "Sylvia" (1876) - L. Delibes
4.. L'Elephant (1886) - S. Saint-Saens
5. Dance Russe (1892) - P.I. Tchaikovsky
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| Paganini MOSES-PHANTASIE |
Paganini MOSES-PHANTASIE for Double Bass Quartet
Bassiona Amorosa
Arrangiert von Klaus Trumpf
FH 2678
Friedrich Hofmeister
Includes score and parts in orchestra tuning.
For 4 Double Basses |
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| Ramsier SAHARA RAINFOREST - Zoo of Dreams III |
On May 7, the Florida West Coast Symphony, in Sarasota, presented the first live U.S. performance of Paul Ramsier's Sahara Rainforest (Zoo of Dreams III) by John Miller, bass and Chistopher Pegis, cello. This is the fifth of Ramsier's compositions presented by this orchestra, including a commission and two premieres.
Sahara Rainforest was recorded in 2004 by Miller and Pegis for Albany Records, before it was publicly performed. Its actual world premiere was given on April 4 by Dan Styffe, bass, and Østein Birkeland, cello, in Oslo. Styffe and Birkeland will make their own commercial recording of the piece for Simax Classics this winter.
Ramsier says that "my series, Zoo of Dreams, composed for different instruments and chamber combinations, is motivated by dreams that have stayed with me through the years. Some dreams are my own; some were given to me by others. These dreams reflect a connection between my two occupations, composition and psychotherapy, and find their way out of my zoo and back 'into the wild' (so to speak) through music.
"In Sahara Rainforest, bass and cello are equally prominent, and I tried out other new ways to bring them together. The piece has its challenges, but four remarkable performers in Sarasota and Norway eagerly collaborated with me in the adventure. That's been infinitely rewarding."
From the review by Richard Storm in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 10, 2006
The program led off with the United States premiere of a fine piece by one of Sarasota's musical treasures, Paul Ramsier. His composition, "Zoo of Dreams III: Sahara Rainforest," is a remarkable fusion of the tonal resources of the cello and double bass.
In this work, Ramsier has provided a new way to hear the rich sounds of these instruments, which are customarily consigned to underpinning ensembles and seldom enjoy the spotlight as in these three brief movements.
Leading off with a graceful and wistful statement by the cello (soon joined in canonic imitation by the bass), the piece creates a unique world, one in which typical roles are reversed, with the bass often playing higher than the cello.
This is followed by a "perpetual motion" movement almost entirely created by pizzicato (plucking of the strings) rather than using the bow.
The melodic theme of the first movement returns in the third, albeit in a more tragic mode. Pegis and John Miller, double bass, delivered a solid and moving performance. This is a composition to be heard again, and soon. |
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| Rohe 8 Christmas Carols for Four Double Basses |
Rohe Eight Christmas Carols for Four Double Basses
Contents:
Silent Night
The First Noel
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
O Come All Ye Faithful
Jingle Bells
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| Sonata for Double Bass & Harp |
| "Double Bass Quartet" was written in 1987 by Dave Anderson. As the title states this is a work for four Double Bass players. Mvt. 1 = Wedding Music I; Mvt. 2 = Rondo/Dance; Mvt. 3 = Recitative: Mvt. 4 = Wedding Music II; Mvt. 5 = Finale. The composer writes: "This is the first bass ensemble piece I wrote. It has 5 movements and all parts are basically equal and advanced. Basses 1 and 4 MUST have a low C (or B) extension. The official premiere was in Louisville in 1988 and received high acclaim at the Chamber Music Festival at Indiana University in 1993." |
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| Progressive Quartets |
| Chamber music is an essential part of learning to play an instrument. These versatile quartets are written so that they can be performed by any combination of four string instruments. These arrangements by prominent string pedagogue Doris Gazda will sound full and satisfying with only four players all the way up to a full string orchestra. The selection of music in this collection covers a wide variety of musical styles that will provide hours of enjoyment and performance options. The quartets are progressively organized by level of difficulty as the performers advance in their skills. This is a welcome addition to the repertoire for all string players.
Table of Contents
Foreword
There's Music in the Air
America
The Fox
Early One Morning
Cindy
Oh! Susanna
The Wabash Cannonball
Home on the Range
Pat-A-Pen
Fum! Fum! Fum!
Flow Gently, Sweet Afton
Go Down Moses
Santa Lucia
The Boll Weevil
The Orchestra
Sailor's Song
Two French Carols
1. Bring a Torch, Jeannette Isabella
2. March of the King
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
Musette
Evening Prayer from the Opera Hansel and Gretel
Lullaby
Minuet from the Opera Don Giovanni
The Reaper's Song
Viennese Refrain
German Dance
Barcarolle from the Opera The Tales of Hoffmann
Polka
Gavotte
Chanson Triste
Intermezzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
Gavotte from the Ballet Les petits riens |
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