The Easy Concert Pieces series features easy to moderately difficult works for double bass with piano accompaniment. Ordered by difficulty in three volumes, the pieces are suitable for auditions, competitions or exams. In addition, the Easy Concert Pieces serve as a motivating complement in class.
All pieces are included on the accompanying CD, as a full version and as a piano accompaniment.
Volume 1 (ED 22551) contains pieces in the half and 1st position. It develops light line styles such as portato, staccato and legatoas well as pizzicato, as well as simple dynamic nuances from piano to forte, crescendo and decrescendo and easy phrasing. The selected pieces have varied characters with catchy melodies, different meters and different simple rhythms.
Volume 2 (ED 22552) in preparation
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| List | $19.99 |
Thanks to its wealth of invention, elegant workmanship, and technical and musical challenges, Franz Anton Hoffmeister's Concerto “No. 1” has emerged as the preferred concerto for double bass auditions. Tobias Glöckler's edition leaves no wishes unfulfilled: the double bass part appears in solo and orchestral tuning with piano reductions in D major and C major. Moreover an additional part, written in fingering notation, has been specially designed for use with the “Viennese tuning” customary in Hoffmeister's days. It allows players to use this resonant historical tuning immediately without tedious retraining. Finally, a separate part is also provided for the solo violin appearing in the second movement.
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| List | $33.95 |
Piano Accompaniment available separately (48002531).
Contents: Simple Gifts • I've Heard an Organ Talk Sometimes • Vieux Póeme • I Bought Me a Cat • Laurie's Song • Billy and His Sweetheart • Dirge in Woods • Zion's Walls • Ching-a-Ring Chaw • The Little Horses • Going to Heaven! • Fanfare for the Common Man.
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| List | $10.99 |
Peteris Vasks from Latvia, who is known for his atmospheric pieces for string orchestra “Cantabile”, “Musica dolorosa” and “Voices”, is concentrating increasingly on chamber music. He was commissioned to compose a ten-minute solo for double bass for the 2003 ARD music competition in Munich. As Vasks himself studied the double bass, it is an effective virtuoso piece well suited to the instrument which awaits the performer, and there is what is probably a very unusual surprise at the end: the player sings (or whistles) a simple waltz melody as a serenade to accompany himself.
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| List | $22.99 |
Contents: Grizzly Bear • Snooker Table • Bubble Gum • Double Quick • Ambling • Pineapple Bounce • The Caretaker • A Quest • Changes • Mean Streets • Soft Drink • In Sombre Mood. MORE»
| List | $22.99 |
Prélude and Scherzo for Double Bass and Piano by the Russian composer Reinhold M. Glière, whose musical style represents a link between Late Romanticism (Tchaikovsky) and Modernism (Prokofiev).
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| List | $16.99 |
Intermezzo and Tarantella for Double Bass and Piano by the Russian composer Reinhold M. Glière, whose musical style represents a crucial link between Late Romanticism (Tchaikovsky) and Modernism (Prokofiev).
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| List | $16.99 |
Bass and Piano
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| List | $31.00 |
Arranged for solo stringed instrument and piano. Solo viola, violoncello, and double bass parts are available.
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| List | $4.95 |
