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Music for Solo Cello (PE040), for Violoncello by Ross Harris (1995) © Ross Harris 1995 Published exclusively by Promethean Editions Limited First edition © 2003 Promethean Editions Limited (201807) Series Editor: Ross Hendy Editor: Thomas Liggett ISBN: 978-1-877218-40-8 (print) ISBN: 978-1-77660-040-3 (ebook) ISMN: 979-0-67452-065-2 Promethean Editions Limited PO Box 10-143 Wellington NEW ZEALAND http://www.promethean-editions.com No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the Publisher. PE040 – ii
Ross Harris (1945) Ross Harris was born in the small town of Amberley in North Canterbury. He was educated in Christchurch and attended the University of Canterbury, where he gained his BMus before moving to Victoria University of Wellington to complete his MMus. He was appointed a lecturer in music at Victoria University in 1971. He played tuba and french horn in the National Youth Orchestra, and french horn in the NZSO for a short time. In 1978 he spent three months in Stockholm on a Swedish Institute Scholarship working in EMS Stockholm. He is a founding member (1982 to date) of the live electronic music ensemble Free Radicals. His works, numbering more than 100, include many piano pieces, several operas, orchestral works, jazz and rock music. In 1985, following the premiere of his opera Waituhi, Harris was awarded the QSM for Public Service. In 1990 he received the CANZ Citation for Services to New Zealand Music, and in 2000 he was the recipient of the SOUNZ Contemporary Award for To the Memory of I. S. Totska, a work for soprano and chamber ensemble inspired by the story of a victim of the Holocaust who died in the Ravensbruch concentration camp during the Second World War. Recent major works by Ross Harris include A Wheel of Fire, an opera based on Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Rasputin, a one-act opera to a libretto by Vincent O’Sullivan. Music for Solo Cello (1995) Harris’ Music for Solo Cello exploits scordatura to create rich, resonant new chordal possibilities on the instrument. The central presto is an exciting display of virtuoso pizzicato technique, which incorporates accented rhythms, strumming and double-stops. The altered tuning of the cello produces an augmented sixth chord from the open strings (B - FÍ- D - GÍ), the resonance of which dominates the sound of the work. Harris wrote Music for Solo Cello PE040 – iii
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