Sadie Harrison's A Not-So-Sonatine for Double Bass and Piano. Composed in 2013 and revised and published in 2016. Duration: 10 minutes.A Not-So-Sonatine is so called as it is rather more than a sonatine being uncharacteristically virtuosic for both Double Bass and Piano. This is a light-hearted piece which references the plethora of accessible mid-twentieth century sonatines with delight! The sec…

This collection presents 195 carefully graded sight-reading pieces and exercises in a range of musical styles, for solo Double Bass. Taking an approach based on self-learning, the 11 sections of the book focus on developing different key technical skills as well as introducing the student to a plethora of musical terms.Each section of the book contains solos, as well as Double Bass duets, and piec…

Par COLLARO VALENTE SERGIO . / Répertoire / Double Bass

Salutatio Angelica for Double Choir

Revised Urtext Edition of BA5419-Frank Martin's style of composition is characterised by elements of French Impressionism modern tonality and expressive musical language. His Double Choir A Cappella Mass was composed between 1922 and 1926 but it was not performed until 1963 in Hamburg. It has been a great favourite with capable choirs since its first publication by Bärenreiter in 1972 (BA 5419). …

Yorke Edition-Born in Oxford in 1917 Francis Baines was a well-known and much respected professional double bass player. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Claude Hobday where he later taught. Something of an eccentric he immersed himself in early music at a time when few people were taking it seriously. He owned a beautiful Amati bass that he had restored as a violone …

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is even considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Scarlatti's music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century with their centres in Florence Venice and Rome and the Classical school of the 18th centur…

Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's Bosun's Cheer composed in 2014. Included here are the score and parts for the Period Instrument Version arranged for a speaker Violin Cello andDouble Bass. Born in Helsinki and having studied composition there and in Freiburg and Paris Kaija Saariaho has achieved a great level of critical and audience acclaim now mid-career. Her previouswork was notable for…

With little existing in the way of study books for the Double Bass François Rabbath's (b.1931) three volume series New Technique for the Double Bass is welcomed by all performers of the instrument. Syrian-born Rabbath moved to Paris in 1955 to further his studies on the Double Bass. He soon began composing for the instrument as well as transcribing works of other composers for the instrument. T…