Dave Anderson: Dance Suite for double bass and harp

About the Composition This piece is dedicated to my wonderful wife, Catherine who is a fantastic harpist. As a composer, I am very lucky to have close contact with a musician who plays one of the most difficult instruments to compose for... so we HAD to get married! This Suite is modeled after the Baroque form I have admired such as any of the 6 Bach Cello Suites or the Bach Orchestral Suites. The Prelude contains hints of each following movements. The Malaguana is based on the old and much slower style of early Latin music that has freedom of syncopation and lyric influence rather than the modern one that is much faster. Next is another ancient dance influenced by the “medicine man” physical cure for a poisonous bite which was to move and/or dance in a fast feverish movement which led to the development of the Tarantella dance. Gliere has written a Tarantella for bass and my version has some reference to it. The Sarabande is a slow phrasing strength to the 2nd or 3rd beat rather than