Informationen zu "Byrom-Smith, D'Angelo, Debussy, Kellach Waddle and Kennedy SYRINX Book 4 Double Bass Solo"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1040
EAN: 9990093814268
Beschreibung
2018 marked the centenary of the death of the great French composer Claude
Debussy (1862-1918) and the 'Syrinx Project' was an international initiative
inviting composers to write a new work for unaccompanied double bass, lasting
around three minutes, and inspired in some way by Debussy's masterpiece
Syrinx for solo flute. Inspired and directed by David Heyes, the ?Syrinx
Project? brought together 22 composers from across the world creating an
exciting year-long programme of commissions, performances and recordings.
All the pieces in the ?Syrinx Project? are published by Recital Music,
alongside a transcription of Debussy?s original Syrinx, in four innovative
and evocative volumes which deserve to find a permanent place in the concert
repertoire for unaccompanied double bass. Syrinx: Requies I, D.M. - John M.
Kennedy (USA) ?There were two sources that I drew upon for ?Syrinx: Requies
I, D.M.?. Initially, I was asked by David Heyes to write a short solo bass
piece to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy.
Colours of early 20th-century French music immediately began to be conjured
up in my head and I heard the double bass as having the kind of
impressionistic sound Debussy may have been drawn toward had he written for
the instrument outside of his orchestrations. As March and the centennial
approached, we were once again reminded of how evil one can be towards those
not like ourselves. A series of mail bombings targeting African Americans in
the Austin, Texas area terrorised the people of the region and among the
first victims was a young, 17-year old bassist named Draylen Mason. Social
media was adorned with pictures of this young man with his bass, some posing
with bassists I know in the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Weeks after his death,
his family received word that he had been accepted to Oberlin Conservatory
for the subsequent fall. ?Syrinx: Requies I, D.M.? memorialises the
expressive legacy of Debussy while reminding us of what music can do best,
?express the inexpressible?, after the pain of indescribable and
unforgiveable loss.? [John M. Kennedy] When Emma Acquiesced to the Blood and
the Darkness, The Siren and the Vampire - P. Kellach Waddle (USA) ?In my
twist on the given story of Syrinx (Emma), Pan, etc.--she is no longer the
siren seducer, she is the seduced. With a significant amount of my music now
always having something to do with vampires-- I found the irony irresistible
that Emma could be a corporeal being who is seduced herself by a vampire
chomping down on her neck. I then wrote this piece where the seductive modal
original Debussy music becomes gradually more and more filled with ' wrong'
notes and contrasting motives that pull the gauzy, ethereal modality back to
a dark, grounding, and resolute Bb minor at the piece's dramatic end.? [P.
Kellach Waddle] The Pursuit of Pan - Peter Byrom Smith (UK) 'In mythology
Syrinx was a nymph known for her chastity. Pursued by the amorous god Pan,
she ran away seeking help from the river nymphs who helped as she was
transformed into hollow water reeds. When the god?s breath blew across these
they produced an ethereal sound. Pan cut these reeds and from them fashioned
the first set of Pan pipes, which became forever known as Syrinx. Debussy?s
piece, Syrinx, reflected on the sadness of Pan?s lost love, I too have tried
to paint a sonic painting reflecting his amorous pursuit of Syrinx. A simple,
but evocative and seductive theme begins the work making appearances
throughout the piece, as Pan tries to entice Syrinx to join him. Following
this, the hectic and frantic running, hiding, pursuit in rapid articulations
of the player, the music weaves around the images of both nymph and god,
before a reflective resolution of Pan, brings the return of the main melodic
theme, although changed in mood in this final refrain.' [Peter Byrom Smith]
Euterpe - James D?Angelo (UK/USA) 'Euterpe, part of the Syrinx Project for
2018, is a homage to Claude Debussy, a contemporary re-imagining of the
famous piece for flute alone. Debussy chose to name the miniature after a
mythological character Syrinx, a kind of consort of the god Pan. In keeping
with this, the composer selected as his title Euterpe, one of the nine muses
of Greek mythology. The one associated with music and poetry. To evoke this
ancient world of legends Debussy was inspired to use exotic scales/modes in
Syrinx. Similarly, Euterpe extends this characteristic by implying fragments
of modes within a non-serial twelve tone context. For example, echoes of the
whole tone scale, one Debussy was particularly attracted to, appear
periodically in Euterpe. This is typified by the recurring five note motif
played in harmonics. The piece should be performed as would an ?alap? in
North Indian classical music. An ?alap? is the improvisatory opening section
of a raga in which a sense of pulse is minimized. To some extent the rhythms
of Euterpe contribute to a this lack of pulsation. The glissandi, here and
there, also add a touch of non-Western flavour to the music. All in all, the
piece could be described as a miniature tone poem. Euterpe was completed on
13 April 2018.? [James D?Angelo]
