Informationen zu "Peter Byrom-Smith Fragments Double Bass & Guitar, Double Bass & Other Instruments"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM1111
EAN: 9990093814824
Beschreibung
Fragments is composed for double bass in Orchestral Tuning and the edition
will include two playing scores. Peter Byrom-Smith writes: 'The music of
J.S. Bach has always enchanted me in many, many ways, everything from his
Cantatas, to his delicious Lute Suites, and everything in between. In fact
almost as many as his control of delicious counterpoint, rhythmic pulse, and
colourful, almost contemporary sounding harmonic colours, as in the Goldberg
Variations. So, when writing this piece, I imagined myself listening to some
of his most memorable melodies, through a sort of 'audio kaleiderscope',
something maybe that H.G. Wells had forgotten to include in his Sci-Fi books.
This device, takes the straight forward melody of Bach, and by twisting this
kaleidoscope gadget, first one way, then another, with the odd shake up, thus
turning our auditory senses around, we get a fragmented collection of
colours, as each of the melodies blend into each other, creating a new
?soundworld' of Bach, his melodies fragmented, harmony vivid, and rhythms
slightly twisted. All the while this is happening, we are still able to
clearly recognise his work, although now in a different, modern guise. So,
using my own compositional instinct, I have tried to actually do this, and
although I had to substitute my own musical imagination for the actual 'audio
kaleidoscope? ÿdevice, I hope I have achieved something new, a tribute, but
also a possible work that Johann may have considered to write himself - ÿa
sort of Baroque meets Contemporary I suppose.'
