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.
Purcell arr. Bryars for SATB choir or four solo voices
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) oder 4 Soli
Music score
Item no.: 793897
in memoriam Steve Lacy
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 783547
Purcell arr. Bryars for SATB choir or four solo voices
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) oder 4 Soli
Item no.: 1544470
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 2
Item no.: 784789
for three female voices or female choir
for: 3 Frauenstimmen (SSMez) oder Frauenchor
Score
Item no.: 726478
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 5
Item no.: 758472
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 8
Item no.: 793082
for mixed choir and organ
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 750516
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 6
Item no.: 793080
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 743585
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 6
Item no.: 784793
for four unaccompanied voices or male choir (CtenTTBar)
for: Countertenor, 2 Tenöre und Bariton; solo Singstimmen oder Männerchor
Choir score
Item no.: 750215
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 2
Item no.: 793078
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 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 1
Item no.: 784788
for mixed choir a capella
for: gemischter Chor a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 755222
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 3
Item no.: 731734
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 7
Item no.: 793081
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 Spielern)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 1
Item no.: 793077
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme Kontrabass 3
Item no.: 784790
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
Item no.: 1544621
arranged for double bass choir
minimum 8 players
for: 8 double basses
Single part 5
Item no.: 1544632
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544629
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544623
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544618
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544619
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spieler)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544625
für achtstimmigen Männerchor
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 660887
for four unaccompanied voices or male choir (CtenTTBar)
for: Countertenor, 2 Tenöre und Bariton; solo Singstimmen oder Männerchor
Choir score
Item no.: 580437
for mixed choir a capella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 610956
for mixed choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 475451
for mixed choir (SAATTBB) and lightly amplified double bass
for: gemischter Chor (SAATTBB) und leicht verstärkten Kontrabass (sempre pizz.)
Chorstimme mit Klavierauszug, nur zu Probezwecken
Item no.: 738925
(after Demantius)
for: Voice (bass)
Music score
Item no.: 734542
Choral Music of Our Time
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur inkl. Klavierstimme für Probezwecke
Item no.: 750236
for female choir
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 783579
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 755234
for mixed choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 729119
"In particular the cottage itself"
for: Mixed choir (SATBarB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 748901
from A Worcester Ladymass
for: 3 Soprane
Music score
Item no.: 729091
for four male voices
for: 4 Männerstimmen (CtenTTBar)
Score
Item no.: 784058
from Tre Laude Dolçe
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 732081
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 784028
for SATB choir, organ and obligato violin
for: gemischter Chor (SATB), Orgel und Violine
Choir score
Item no.: 784024
for male choir
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 783417
arranged for double bass choir
for: Kontrabass Ensemble (minimum 8 Spielern)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544626
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