Format : Sheet music
Robin Holloway's Sonata for Solo Double Bass.Duration: 20 minutes
SKU: HL.48024561
ISBN 9781784543518. 0.078 inches.
This Sonata for Viola (unaccompanied) was written in 1999. The soloists C-string is tuned down a semitone for the entire piece, giving a duskier quality to the tone-colour, and setting up in the very first bar the characteristic melodic/harmonic shape that infiltrates all four movements. I - slowish and thoughtful - gradually expands this opening idea into cantilena and pattern, as prelude to II - Vivacissimo - played muted throughout, a tremolando tarantella, with contrasting section, chunky double-stops, alternating withsomething of a gigue. III - adagio - rhapsodic and quasi-improvisando, enclosing a simple self-contained melody, and linking into IV, where the gigue-like material from the scherzo provides the principal substance, expanding into an ardent cantabile, and calminginto the Coda not just the finale but, in its reminiscences of I, to the sonata as a whole.
SKU: HL.48024391
ISBN 9781784543525. UPC: 888680892630. 9x12 inches.
This Violin Sonata composed in August 1981 has four movements.
SKU: HL.48024367
ISBN 9781784543921. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Content:I. con moto allegro II. Scherzo III. Finale.
SKU: HL.48024366
ISBN 9781784543532. UPC: 888680791674. 9x12 inches.
Content text:PraeludiumBurlaSarabandeSerenataGigue en rondeau.