Straitjacket
Concerto
by Adam Gorb
Tuba - Sheet Music

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Tuba and piano - Grade 4-5

SKU: ET.TU87

Concerto. Composed by Adam Gorb. Contemporary. Composed 2002. Duration 11'. Editions BIM #TU87. Published by Editions BIM (ET.TU87).

ISBN 9790207007117.

Straitjacket
In this ten-minute piece I have attempted to illustrate a Kafkaesque sense of claustrophia and paranoia. The mood is predominantly dark, often violent, and at times grotesque. The tuba and piano should play as if locked together in a deadly embrace - indeed the piano part is limited to one note at a time in the register of the tuba. Towards the end of the work a brief cadenza for the tuba gives a hope of liberation, but this is denied by a cruel tolling in the depths of the piano that brings the piece to a bleak conclusion.
"Straitjacket" was commissioned by and is dedicated to James Gourlay to whom I am eternally grateful for suggesting the work should be transposed down a tone, thus blackening the mood still further. Adam Gorb.