ARGONAUTA for double bass and piano (Full Score and Parts) PDFs
Instrumentation: double bass and piano
Difficulty: Advanced (Grade 6)
Duration: ca. 4 minutes
Program Note: The word "Argonauta" literally means, "sailor of the Argo," but it can refer to either nautical adventurers or a specific genus of octopuses with large eyes and webbed tentacles—animals that live unusually close to the surface of the water.
The dual meaning of the word was the starting point from which my imagination envisioned a story about sailors who are attacked by cephalopods. After beginning their journey, a crew is ambushed, at night, by creatures that wriggle toward them and overwhelm them with tentacles.
Musically, the disorienting tentacles are portrayed by intrusive use of the octatonic scale, which features eight notes that allow for a kind of harmonic ambiguity through use of inversional and transpositional symmetry. I would like to thank the incredibly talented Jory Herman who commissioned and performed this work.
Document Sizes: The full (piano) score and double bass part are formatted for printing on letter (8.5”x11”) size paper, though these technically could be printed on any size paper.
Instrumentation: double bass and piano
Difficulty: Advanced (Grade 6)
Duration: ca. 4 minutes
Program Note: The word "Argonauta" literally means, "sailor of the Argo," but it can refer to either nautical adventurers or a specific genus of octopuses with large eyes and webbed tentacles—animals that live unusually close to the surface of the water.
The dual meaning of the word was the starting point from which my imagination envisioned a story about sailors who are attacked by cephalopods. After beginning their journey, a crew is ambushed, at night, by creatures that wriggle toward them and overwhelm them with tentacles.
Musically, the disorienting tentacles are portrayed by intrusive use of the octatonic scale, which features eight notes that allow for a kind of harmonic ambiguity through use of inversional and transpositional symmetry. I would like to thank the incredibly talented Jory Herman who commissioned and performed this work.
Document Sizes: The full (piano) score and double bass part are formatted for printing on letter (8.5”x11”) size paper, though these technically could be printed on any size paper.
Instrumentation: double bass and piano
Difficulty: Advanced (Grade 6)
Duration: ca. 4 minutes
Program Note: The word "Argonauta" literally means, "sailor of the Argo," but it can refer to either nautical adventurers or a specific genus of octopuses with large eyes and webbed tentacles—animals that live unusually close to the surface of the water.
The dual meaning of the word was the starting point from which my imagination envisioned a story about sailors who are attacked by cephalopods. After beginning their journey, a crew is ambushed, at night, by creatures that wriggle toward them and overwhelm them with tentacles.
Musically, the disorienting tentacles are portrayed by intrusive use of the octatonic scale, which features eight notes that allow for a kind of harmonic ambiguity through use of inversional and transpositional symmetry. I would like to thank the incredibly talented Jory Herman who commissioned and performed this work.
Document Sizes: The full (piano) score and double bass part are formatted for printing on letter (8.5”x11”) size paper, though these technically could be printed on any size paper.