Romance for Accordion (Stradella Bass Composition)

[Accordionna]

This appeared in another social network this morning. The YouTube video was published on September 9.
The score is available from henrydoktorski@gmail.com.

 

[Walker]

Thank you for sharing this with us @Accordionna. Henry Doktorski is brilliant, I really like his work, and think he is one of the most interesting accordionists on the scene. Also, his Hymns To Mary is, to my mind, one of the very best accordion recordings I've heard.

Regarding the Romance for Chord Buttons, I really like how Doktorski makes a feature of the mechanised chords. His work is clever and refined. He reminds me of another original and fantastic American Accordionist, William Popp. If you get the chance, listen to Popp's Tactile No 2 on YouTube. It also makes a big feature of stradella chord mechanisation.​

 

[Accordionna]

Thank you for sharing this with us @Accordionna. Henry Doktorski is brilliant, I really like his work, and think he is one of the most interesting accordionists on the scene. Also, his Hymns To Mary is, to my mind, one of the very best accordion recordings I've heard.

Regarding the Romance for Chord Buttons, I really like how Doktorski makes a feature of the mechanised chords. His work is clever and refined. He reminds me of another original and fantastic American Accordionist, William Popp. If you get the chance, listen to Popp's Tactile No 2 on YouTube. It also makes a big feature of stradella chord mechanisation.​

Thank you for the additional recommendation!

 

[Mr. Hyde]

Nice piece! Would be better if we can see how his fingers works.

 

[cestjeffici]

I purchased Romance for Chord Buttons. It’s going to be a real challenge for me trying to figure out how to finger if. It’s written as if it were a piano score so you have to figure out the chords and then add some single note bass buttons.

 

[craigd]

Have you given it a go Jeff? Saw a note about it being written for a bass pitch range starting at low g flat I believe. Did you have to do any transposition?

 

[cestjeffici]

Have you given it a go Jeff? Saw a note about it being written for a bass pitch range starting at low g flat I believe. Did you have to do any transposition?

Not yet craigd, My first attempt had me stuck on fingering the first two bars! My fingers just seemed to not want to bend that way! I put the music in my "I'm not quite up to this yet" file.
The reason I bought the score is that I may need surgery on my right hand and thought that this piece would allow me to keep playing during recovery.
In fact, I am still looking for left hand only pieces.

 

[cestjeffici]

Have you given it a go Jeff? Saw a note about it being written for a bass pitch range starting at low g flat I believe. Did you have to do any transposition?

I started looking at it today. I do't see any way to play it without using bass and counter bass buttons. It would be great to see someone play it.
As of tomorrow my right hand will be out of commission for a while. I've set up my FR4 to a Fixed Bellows curve so I can play with one hand.
I'm OK with the low G flat but not sure about the high F above middle C.
Am I wrong in thinking that in Stradella all the notes are in the same octave?

 

[Tom]

Bes

I started looking at it today. I do't see any way to play it without using bass and counter bass buttons. It would be great to see someone play it.
As of tomorrow my right hand will be out of commission for a while. I've set up my FR4 to a Fixed Bellows curve so I can play with one hand.
I'm OK with the low G flat but not sure about the high F above middle C.
Am I wrong in thinking that in Stradella all the notes are in the same octav

Best of luck to you Jeff, hope your recovery is quick!

 

[Zevy]

My teacher, Charles Nunzio, once showed me a piece that he wrote for the left hand solo. It's just too bad that he unfortunately did not publish it.

 

[Alan Sharkis]

I have an old vinyl of Magnante on which he played Holiday For Basses and Holiday for Chords. I haven’t listened to it or read the liner notes for many years, but IIRC, Magnante composed both of them.