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The double bass is an unwieldy instrument, but it has been smoothly integrated into many musical styles.

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Focus

On rocking, swaying ground
The bass waltzes and makes the musical structure vibrate

Claire, puissante, sonore... mais sans succès
La colossale octobasse de Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume
Hector Berlioz and the octobass (additional article on the website)

Démontée et remontée en deux minutes
La contrebasse démontable de Denis Favrichon

The grandchildren learn the "grandfather instrument"
The double bass is booming at some music schools

Two truck drivers meet ...
Interview with the double bass player Käthi Steuri
 

... and also

RESONANCE


" J'aurais voulu chanter la voix de basse "
- Entretien avec Jocelyne Rudasigwa

The double bass as a loop or line - Vincent Bertholet's versatile play instinct

Francfort tells us comment va la musique

The musical in the visual - Exhibition "extended compositions" at the Centre d'art Pasquart in Biel/Bienne

Clash! or Mash? - Spring conference and concerts of the INMM Darmstadt

Carte blanche for Christoph Trummer
 

CAMPUS


Traditions en devenir, modernités plurielles -
La HEM de Genève collabore avec l'Initiative Aga Khan pour la Musique

Professeur de musique, quel métier est-ce vraiment ?

Authenticity versus improvisation in the philosophy of about music? - Symposium at the University of Bern

The bamboo bends towards the stars - CAS bamboo flutes

klaxon children's page - page des enfants (PDF)

 

FINAL


Riddle
- Thomas Meyer is looking for


Row 9

Since January 2017, Michael Kube has always sat down for us on the 9th of the month in row 9 - with serious, thoughtful, but also amusing comments on current developments and the everyday music business.

Link to series 9


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