Simón García: A Night in Compostela for double bass sextet

About the Composition A Night in Compostela is vibrant and exciting. Simón García uses jazzy and rhythmic styles to describe the emotions and feelings you may experience as a pilgrim or tourist on a brief visit to the city of Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain, both the spiritual element or the fun of the exotic nightlife. "Rhythmic drive is perhaps the most important- and unifying - musical element that extends through A Night in Compostela...A Night in Compostela recalls the nocturnal streets of Northern Spain during a season of fiesta. The first second bass part open with a repeating sixteenth note pattern, setting a quick pace and immediately establishing a lively groove. Basses three, four and five soon join with ricochet gestures that pop like celebratory firecrackers in the night. When the sixth bass makes its entrance, it is the first to play a four-bar G minor melody. This syncopated and scalar theme will later be picked up and modified by the upper voices, which often