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Double Bass Chamber Music featuring Double Bass

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Neil Pye said:
Why does it require a conductor?
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It's a very complicated piece. Mixed meters, sudden changes in tempo, difficult rhythms and syncopations, etc. It's not like there's a clear pulse throughout the piece, and the solo part isn't something the rest of the band can just follow. Unless you really have time for 40+ rehearsals and want to do it like that, there's no reason not to use a conductor.
 
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PaulCannon said:
It's a very complicated piece. Mixed meters, sudden changes in tempo, difficult rhythms and syncopations, etc. It's not like there's a clear pulse throughout the piece, and the solo part isn't something the rest of the band can just follow. Unless you really have time for 40+ rehearsals and want to do it like that, there's no reason not to use a conductor.
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Fair enough. I would have thought it doable, in the same way that "Quartet for the End of Time" is doable, but you know it and I don't. Sounds like a challenge
 
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Neil Pye said:
Fair enough. I would have thought it doable, in the same way that "Quartet for the End of Time" is doable, but you know it and I don't. Sounds like a challenge
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Those are not the same at all. The Messiaen is comparatively straight forward. There's a melody (in the traditional sense), it stays in the same time signatures for more than a bar at a time, the barlines are clearly shown in the phrasing, and so forth. If you know the piece pretty well, you could put it together relatively quickly.

I could play the Saunders 30 times, and I still wouldn't feel confident enough to do it without a conductor. There's just too much going on.
 
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