Inspiration Cello! Book 3
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Cello
- Publisher
- United Music Publishers (UMP), ISMN M 2244 1737 1 (979-0-2244-1737-1); score and two cello parts; £19.99
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About this piece
Inspiration Cello! Book 3 is the last of Joanna Borrett's three books of cello duets, with four original duets for two cellos: Summer Memory, Highland Meeting, Variations on a Christmas Carol and Morning Prelude. The publisher grades them from Grade 6 to Grade 8 and notes that they are mostly in bass clef. Summer Memory is impressionistic, Morning Prelude is built on natural harmonics and sweeping tunes, Highland Meeting has a lyrical Scottish character and the Variations are light-hearted. Borrett is a British composer who was a cellist before turning to composition.
Technical overview
Summer Memory is an Adagio in 5/4 that shifts through 4/4, 6/4 and 7/4, with tremolo chords, natural harmonics, held high notes and short passages in tenor clef. Highland Meeting is an Andante espressivo in 6/8 with dotted and Scotch-snap figures, semiquaver turns and tremolo double stops. Variations on a Christmas Carol has fast quaver runs in the upper positions, chords and triple stops, a trill and a pizzicato close. Morning Prelude opens with a long melody played entirely in natural harmonics in one position, while the second cello rests, and ends with pizzicato.
Technical focus
- Chords
- Dotted Rhythms
- Double Stops
- Ensemble Skills
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Harmonics
- Legato
- Meter Changes
- Pizzicato
- Shifting
- Tenor Clef
- Tremolo
- Trills