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Solo2019

Twelve Steps

Twelve variations on a single ascending shift, each one a semitone higher than the last.

Year
2019
Instrumentation
Solo Double Bass
Duration
5:30 min
Difficulty
Advanced
Category
Solo
Publisher
Golden Hearts Publications
Premiere

Sho Oie, double bass
Yokohama Minato Mirai Small Hall, Yokohama

Programme Note

A study disguised as a recital piece. The material is one left-hand shift; the variations move it up the instrument a semitone at a time until the twelfth lands on the harmonic node above the fingerboard.

Playable from memory in around five and a half minutes. A version for cello is available on request.

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