Below are compositions and transcriptions by Ben Robertson featured in recent CD’s , including 2 prize winning compositions published by Recital Music in the UK.
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Ben’s Mphil thesis What happens next? Imaginative presence in Gary Peacock and Lee Konitz: Divergent fields, audiation, and the unexpected can be found at
From the 2012 VCE Contemporary Double Bass syllabus.
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Classical repertoire
Moon Prayer: Callisto
For double bass and piano.
Written as if from the perspective of an imaginary observer on the surface of Jupiter, gazing in awe at the moon. The feeling is of reverence and silent prayer - a meditation of great tenderness.
Features a rolling 12/8 section with cross-rhythm groupings in 3 and 4 throughout.
A reverent prayer and meditation, as if - from the surface of Jupiter - one is gazing in revelation upon the amazing sight of such a moon.
Featuring a flowing piano part played mostly legato. The bass part can be played without vibrato in the quieter passages, with vibrato used for emphasis only throughout if at all. There is a cadenza-like passage that can be played freely or improvised by the performer - using a common Indian scale.
Below are compositions and transcriptions by Ben Robertson featured in recent CD’s , including 2 prize winning compositions published by Recital Music in the UK.
Most orders sent within 2-3 days of the payment clearing.
They will be emailed (except where otherwise indicated) as licensed PDF downloads, with a receipt and license.
To see a preview of what the music looks like click here
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Ben’s Mphil thesis What happens next? Imaginative presence in Gary Peacock and Lee Konitz: Divergent fields, audiation, and the unexpected can be found at
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117208
Ben’s PhD thesis Singing the bass. Vocality, technique, physicality and imagination in a double bass improviser praxis
http://hdl.handle.net/1885/315973
Jazz repertoire
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Affirmation from the CD Going Home FGHR.
Excalibre double/electric bass melody.
Do Nothin’... (bass solo) from the CD: A Late Night Out of Town.
Re: Song I knew from the CD Going Home FGHR.
From the Victorian Certificate of Education Contemporary
Double Bass syllabus.
Affirmation
From the CD Going Home FGHR (wwm005).
Bass melody with optional accompaniment.
From the VCE Contemporary Double Bass syllabus.
Excalibre
Double/electric bass melody played in straight eighths, with chordal accompaniment.
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore: Bass Solo
Bass solo/transcription by Ben Robertson.
From the CD: A to Z of Jazz [ABC 470 4193] w. James Morrison, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
From the VCE Contemporary Double Bass syllabus.
Double bass with chordal accompaniment.
Mainly mid-register pizz. at an easy swing tempo.
Re: Song I knew
Bass Solo
Transcription by Ben Robertson.
Double bass with chordal accompaniment.
Click here to watch the video.
From the 2012 VCE Contemporary Double Bass syllabus.
Classical repertoire
Moon Prayer: Callisto
For double bass and piano.
Written as if from the perspective of an imaginary observer on the surface of Jupiter, gazing in awe at the moon. The feeling is of reverence and silent prayer - a meditation of great tenderness.
Features a rolling 12/8 section with cross-rhythm groupings in 3 and 4 throughout.
Click here to watch the video.
Published by recital music http://www.recitalmusic.net
MAIL ONLY
Moon and Rain: Europa
For double bass and piano
A reverent prayer and meditation, as if - from the surface of Jupiter - one is gazing in revelation upon the amazing sight of such a moon.
Featuring a flowing piano part played mostly legato. The bass part can be played without vibrato in the quieter passages, with vibrato used for emphasis only throughout if at all. There is a cadenza-like passage that can be played freely or improvised by the performer - using a common Indian scale.
Click here to watch the video.
Published by recital music http://www.recitalmusic.net
MAIL ONLY