Goddard, Mark: Gerty Goat Scuffer. Double Bass & Piano - Digital Download *Grevillea It belongs to a group

It belongs to a group of self-imposed “experiments” with which the composter sought to make inroads into “serious” music: “I have only written three ‘opuses’ so far – ‘The Blue Monday Opera

Even when divided to be played in two evenings

which is ignored by the majority of perfonners (even by Adolf Busch)

and legato pedalling

while the later études include material for developing confidence with metre change and other basic rhythmic skills and with atonality

Goddard, Mark: Gerty Goat Scuffer. Double Bass & Piano - Digital Download *Grevillea It belongs to a groupWritten for David Heyes as part of his Fizz at 50 project. Gerty Goat Scuffer (in case you wondered) is one of many nick names we had for a much loved family dog officially named Heavy Hetty from a character in an imaginative childrens book of that name. In my youth as a composition student at the RAM, I discovered that walking a dog for an hour a day is the anti dote to the long hours required as a composer, sat you yer bum writing at a desk, and (in