Shin-Yi Huang Double Bass Recital with a supporting paper: An Interpretation of Bottesini's Concerto in f sharp minor

• Main Authors: Haung, Shin-Yi, 黃欣儀
• Other Authors: Chen, Wei-Che
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11592237679581119908

碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 音樂研究所 === 98 === Giovanni Bottesini, who played an important role of history of double bass, was not only a master of double bass, but also a conductor and a composer. His works included operas and lots of double bass solo works. According to his background of conducting and writing operas, beautiful melody which is like arias in opera is one of his work’s characteristics, and can be seen everywhere in his works of double bass. In addition, the most important one of his contributions is promoting techniques of double bass by using a large number of harmonics and arpeggios. Concerto in f sharp minor is one of his solo works of double bass. It includes all Bottesini’s writing characteristics—melody of singing style, use of harmonics and arpeggios—and has complete structure and great scale. This article is about to interpret this work through two different parts. First part is to know the biography of Bottesini and contemporary development and performing style of double bass. Second part includes usual writing methods of Bottesini and my opinion of interpretation of this concerto. Fist movement is a traditional sonata form of concerto, and presents the whole movement by the alternation of slow and fast part, and has a long cadenza show all difficult techniques. Second movement is a song form which can be divided into four parts, and presents the singing style by using lots of delicate melodies. In this movement, Bottesini wrote simple melodies with ornamental notes and each part has different way of ornamentation to present their own character. Therefore, performers need to think about how to change the emotions appropriately among different parts. Third movement is a ternary form which intends to show off the complicated skills on double bass. The main materials of this movement are scale and notes of military style. Bottesini created a interesting effect by using opposite directions of notes and longing the value of notes in B part.