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Baader Nobs Heidi Bifurcation Tu21

Heidi Baader-Nobs
Bifurcation

for tuba and piano

  • Level: advanced
  • Duration: 4'
  • Genre: contemporary
  • Series: Swiss Composers Series
  • Composed: 1991

Reference: Tu21
CHF29.00

Details

  • Published: 1991
  • Publisher: Editions Bim

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Bifurcation

Composer

Heidi Baader-Nobs

Heidi Baader-Nobs (*1940)

Heidi Baader-Nobs was born in 1940 in Delémont, Switzerland. After having studied violin at the city's music school, she went on to study music theory and composition at the Basel Conservatory in t... Read more

About Bifurcation

Bifurcation

"Bifurcation" was written for the 47th International Competition for Musical Performers in Geneva (1991), which for the first time has designated the tuba as a solo instrument. In the beginning the voices of the piano and tuba are together, but then they gradually go off on their own paths. As the pianist pursues his musical goals (broadening and elevating the register), the tubist tries to escape his influence by exploring on one hand the extreme upper register of his instrument while on the other hand aggressively trying to master the lowest regions of tonal space. Finally the tuba resigns himself to abandoning the upper register and returns to the lower and most familiar regions.