Informationen zu "Michael Montgomery Giants & Gods - Five Quartets for Young Bassists Double Bass Quartet"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM656
EAN: 9790570456567
ISMN: M-57045-656-7
Beschreibung
Giants & Gods - Five Quartets for Young Bassists Five engaging and appealing
quartets which make effective use of a range of textures and timbres,
introducing simple and accessible harmonics in an easy and unthreatening way.
The composer hopes that the extended sonorities presented in these quartets
will enable young bassists to conjure up in his own mind's eye some of the
imagery depicted in these five quartets. They have been performed with great
success by Michael Montgomery's double bass students and offer effective
study and concert repertoire for bass quartet, also playable by larger
forces. Giants & Gods were premiered at Wells Cathedral School (Somerset,
UK) on 29 September 2013 by Pete Canter, Richard Dunn, Matthew Green, Ben
Groenevelt, David Heyes, Josie Jobbins, Rob Lillis, Hazel Owen, Joe Prindl,
Jim Rintoul, Thea Sayer and Isabelle Woolcott 1. Gargantua Known for their
great intellect and capacity for food and drink as well their incredibly
large size, the giant king Gargantua and his son Pantagruel were the subjects
of many a yarn in the series of five novels written by Francois Rabelais in
the 1530s, an author who loved to poke fun at the way of life of his French
contemporaries. 2. Harmonia We are told by the ancient Greeks that
Harmonia, the daughter of Aphrodite (the goddess of love) and Ares (the god
of war), was a benevolent deity who sought to soothe strife and discord and
preserve cosmic serenity. 3. Belugas Belugas, among the most social of all
whales, have long been known to be great vocalizers who communicate with one
another via a sophisticated assortment of sounds that include clicks, chirps,
grunts, squeals, screeches and whistles, oftentimes making such a potpourri
of song that they have earned for themselves the nickname 'sea canaries.'
4. Luna The ancient Romans believed that the moon was a goddess, whom they
named Luna, and she drove her chariot across the heavens lighting up the
night time sky. Of her Homer writes, in his Hymn to Selene (as Luna was known
to the Greeks), 'From her immortal head a radiance is shown from heaven and
embraces earth, and great is the beauty that arises from her shining light.'
5. Gibraltar The giant monolithic rock that is the single most
distinguishing landmark of Gibraltar, according to the ancient Greeks, is in
fact the northernmost of the 'Pillars of Hercules,' formed when this son of
Zeus, on his way to the Garden of the Hesperides, smashed through the Atlas
Mountains that had up to that time separated the Mediterranean Sea from the
Atlantic Ocean. Double bassist Michael Montgomery, a student of Robert Rohe
and Lucas Drew, has a Doctor of Musical Arts degree, played in the Florida
Philharmonic Orchestra for many years, and now lives in the Ozark Mountains
of Arkansas, where he teaches at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville and
the Suzuki Music School of Arkansas. His articles have been published in
American Suzuki Journal, Bass World, and Pastoral Music.
