Carmen Fantasie - reduction for double bass and piano - in B - Digital (Not Printable)

Carmen Fantasie - reduction for double bass and piano - in B - Digital (Not Printable)for double bass and piano, edited by DaXun Zhang (in B Major) Note Georges Bizet (18381875) died only three months after the premiere of Carmen convinced that it was a failure. Not so many years later it was the most often performed opera in the international repertoire, and for the better part of a century this music has been popular far beyond the lyric theatre. In our own time the Bizet masterpiece has been transmogrified as a musical (Carmen

the doubleness of Merrill's vision took on deeper significance

Sardophonia

It is about finding beauty in unexpected places

gives more than it takes

/ What else is new

for violin

For violin and piano (edited by John Michael Cooper)

and from this point on D and F

such as Madam C

a chaconne)

The amplified cello and tenor sax originate in different worlds

The lyrical A section is nostalgic and tinged with melancholy and flavored by blue thirds (all appropriate