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Charleston noir

Sheet Music: Score

Charleston noir : for double bass quartet / Elena Kats-Chernin.

by Elena Kats-Chernin (1996)

  • Sales Availability: This item is not available to customers outside Australia and New Zealand.
    Please contact Boosey & Hawkes Sheet Music Shop: Classical and Educational Sheet Music and Scores for all sales enquiries.
  • Library Availability: 785.7514/KAT 1 — Available for loan
  • Instrumentation: 4 double basses.
  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Kees Boersma, Kirsty McCahon, Alex Henery, Damien Eckerlsey from the CD Chamber of horrors

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Product details

This piece exists in a number of versions. Originally commissioned by Tall Poppies (Australian CD label) for 4 double basses, it became a piece for piano solo in 1996. A year later a somewhat shortened string quartet version followed.

At the core of it lies the charleston rhythm in the lower register, in quite a dissonant manner-based on an interval of the major seventh. Even though the overall tone of the piece is quite edgy, dark and harsh, the piece also has some light moments. It is a very free approach to a genre which, as a starting point, inspired me. I have always had a fondness for charleston and ragtime.
The originally requested piece for four double basses got written, starting similarly to the piano version, but developing in a different way. That version exists on Tall Poppies CD "Chamber of Horrors".

EKC, July 2008

Published by: Australian Music Centre (under licence from Boosey & Hawkes) — 1 score (30p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Medium

Duration: 8 mins

Commissioned by Tall Poppies with funds provided by Australia Council. Performing Arts Board.

Includes program notes.

Written during the composer's time at Peggy Glanville-Hicks House, Paddington, Sydney.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 1998.

Related products

This work is also available in the following products:

Charleston noir
Parts: Charleston noir : for double bass quartet / Elena Kats-Chernin.

Chamber of horrors
CD: Chamber of horrors / Elena Kats-Chernin.

Charleston noir
Digital Audio: Charleston noir / Elena Kats-Chernin ; performed by Kees Boersma, Kristy McCahon et al

This work also exists as the following versions:
- String Quartets
- Solo Piano

 

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