Dans Story
Unaccompanied Double Bass
Composer: Teppo Hauta-aho
Product code:
RMD1244
Publisher: Recital Music
£4.00
Description
Dan’s Story is in one extended movement but in several defined sections which explore a wealth of colours and textures available to the modern bassist. The piece makes a feature of long melodies played in harmonics, ending with a section employing double stops and false harmonics in the lower positions.
Dan’s Story is lyrical and melodic, in a contemporary framework and idiom, with opportunities to demonstrate the colourful and inventive prowess of this unique composer.
Dan’s Story is dedicated to Dan Styffe and was premiered on Thursday 6 June 2019 at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Dan Styffe describes the piece as “quite typical of Teppo’s music, but perhaps a little less jazzy in tonality and expression than some of his other pieces. Melodic and singing phrases contrast harmonic lines and pizzicato passages.”
Description
Dan’s Story is in one extended movement but in several defined sections which explore a wealth of colours and textures available to the modern bassist. The piece makes a feature of long melodies played in harmonics, ending with a section employing double stops and false harmonics in the lower positions.
Dan’s Story is lyrical and melodic, in a contemporary framework and idiom, with opportunities to demonstrate the colourful and inventive prowess of this unique composer.
Dan’s Story is dedicated to Dan Styffe and was premiered on Thursday 6 June 2019 at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. Dan Styffe describes the piece as “quite typical of Teppo’s music, but perhaps a little less jazzy in tonality and expression than some of his other pieces. Melodic and singing phrases contrast harmonic lines and pizzicato passages.”
