Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism. Born in Goole, in East Yorkshire, England, Bryars studied philosophy at Sheffield University but became a jazz bassist during his three years as a philosophy student. The first musical work for which he is remembered was his role as bassist in the trio Joseph Holbrooke, alongside guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley. The trio began by playing relatively traditional jazz before moving into free improvisation. However, Bryars became dissatisfied with this when he saw a young bassist (later revealed to be Johnny Dyani) play in a manner which seemed to him to be artificial, and he became interested in composition instead. Bryars’s first works as a composer owe much to the New York School of John Cage (with whom he briefly studied), Morton Feldman, Earle Brown and minimalism. One of his earliest pieces, The Sinking of the Titanic (1969), is an indeterminist work which allows the performers to take a number of sound sources related to the sinking of the RMS Titanic and make them into a piece of music. Bryars’s later works have included A Man In A Room, Gambling (1992), which was written on commission from BBC Radio 3 and Artangel. Bryars’s music is heard beneath monologues spoken by the Spanish artist Juan Muñoz, who talks about methods of cheating at card games. The ten short works were played on Radio 3 without any introductory announcements, and Bryars is quoted as saying that he hoped they would appear to the listener in a similar way to the shipping forecast, both mysterious and accepted without question. Bryars has written a large number of other works, including four operas, and a number of instrumental pieces, among them three string quartets and several concertos. He has written several pieces for choreographers, including Biped (1999) for Merce Cunningham. Between 1981–1984 he participated in the CIVIL warS, a vast, never-completed multimedia project by Robert Wilson, who also directed his first opera "Medea". He has also written a large body of vocal and choral music for groups such as the Hilliard Ensemble, the Latvian Radio Choir, the Estonian National Men’s Choir, Red Byrd, Trio Mediaeval and has written a great deal for early music performers including 5 books of madrigals and a collection of over 40 "laude". Bryars When Harry Met Addie (a tribute to jazz singer Adelaide Hall and saxophonist Harry Carney) was premiered at the Duke Ellington Memorial Concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 1 May 1999. The piece was performed by the London Sinfonietta Big Band and was commissioned by the baritone saxophonist/bass clarinettist John Surman. Cristina Zavalloni sang the soprano and the London Sinfonietta Big Band was conducted by Diego Masson· Bryars founded the music department at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), and taught there for a number of years, but left in 1994 to concentrate on composition and performance. He lives in England, and, for part of the year, on the west coast of Canada.
The Bulls of Bashan
for: Violine und Streicher
Study score
Item no.: 739988
for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 733203
for electric guitar, viola, cello and double bass
for: elektrische Gitarre, Viola, Violoncello und Kontrabass
Score, Parts
Item no.: 784005
for: 9 Klarinetten
Set of parts
Item no.: 643261
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 635684
for: 8 double basses
Score
Item no.: 635618
for four unaccompanied voices or male choir (CtenTTBar)
for: Countertenor, 2 Tenöre und Bariton; solo Singstimmen oder Männerchor
Choir score
Item no.: 750215
for: Sopran-Saxophon oder Klarinette und Percussion, Klavier, Elektro-Gitarre, Violine und Kontrabass
Study score
Item no.: 1544722
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544622
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544619
for: Elektro-Gitarre, 2 Violen und Violoncello
Set of parts
Item no.: 1544478
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 4
Item no.: 784791
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 4
Item no.: 793079
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 2
Item no.: 793078
from Tre Laude Dolçe
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 732081
for: Singstimme (Bass)
Item no.: 641684
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544633
for: gemischter Chor (SATBarB) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 471338
for: 6 recorders (AATTBB)
Score
Item no.: 555239
for: Violin, string orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 137644
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 7 & 8, two copies needed for performance
Item no.: 784794
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 1
Item no.: 784788
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 7
Item no.: 793081
for cello or viola, piano and optional electric guitar
for: Violoncello oder Bratsche und Klavier und optional Elektro-Gitarre
Score, Parts
Item no.: 736960
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544625
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 3
Item no.: 731734
for: 3 Soprane
Item no.: 618177
for chorus (SATB), harmonium and piano
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Harmonium und Klavier
Einzelstimme Klavier / Harmonium
Item no.: 750453
for 21 solo strings
for: 21 Solo-Streicher
Study score
Item no.: 750008
for: Alt und Streichtrio
Score, Parts
Item no.: 196132
for electric guitar, 2 violas and cello
for: Elektro-Gitarre, 2 Violen und Violoncello
Set of parts
Item no.: 793856
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 1
Item no.: 793077
Choral Music of Our Time
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Trompete und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 750237
for cello and piano
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 735167
Edition Schott
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 779825
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 5
Item no.: 784792
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 3
Item no.: 784790
in memoriam Steve Lacy
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 783547
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Harmonium und Klavier
Score
Item no.: 469417
for: 2 recorders (TB)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 602500
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Trompete und Orgel
Score
Item no.: 432776
for: Schlagwerk-Quintett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 142882
for SATB choir, organ and obligato violin
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Orgel und Violine
Single part Violin
Item no.: 755230
for: Solo-Sopran, Bass-Klarinette, E-Gitarre, 2 Violas, Violoncello und Kontrabass
Study score
Item no.: 140191
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 806057
for: Choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 796338
for: Violine solo oder Viola solo und Ensemble
Study score
Item no.: 1546167
for: 8 double basses
Single part 5
Item no.: 1544632
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