Michael Montgomery: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: A Halloween Tale for Beginner Double Bass Quartet

About the Composition Five Quartets for Beginner Double Bass Quartet The Legend of Sleepy Hollow features five short, colourful and inventive pieces for the beginner bass quartet. Using only 1st position, alongside easy harmonics in 4th position to add height and clarity, alongside effective bass percussion, these pieces are an ideal opportunity to introduce chamber music from the earliest stages of study. Repeats can be added if needed, alongside a narration between pieces, and these are useful for quartet or larger forces. “Based on the personalities and dispositions of characters from Washington Irving’s 1820 short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, these five bass quartets were composed as part of a project initiated by Recital Music to establish a cache of chamber music for novice bassists who are all too often not afforded the opportunity perform in small chamber ensembles. Intended for beginning students, the quartets range extend up only as high as 1st position, with the exc