Your favorite piece of music....

[Richardrichard9]

Opps.. I am not sure if either of these have a tuba part....

Without a tuba part... I would say Ashoken Farewell

Neither, in fact, has a tuba part.

The question about the Glinka is understandable, but there is a very obvious reason why the music of Rossini would not have a tuba part. I'll bet you can find it with a bare minimum of google effort.

I'm not sure I could find the reason you were talking about...

However I didn't know because I am playing The William Tell Overture in Orchestra and there is in fact a tuba part.

[eupher61]

you're playing an edition, then. William Tell was the last of the Rossini's operas, written in 1829. The tuba wasn't even invented until 1835, and Rossini didn't write for ophicleide or cimbasso. (well, let me mumble the ophicleide aspect, because I'm not sure about that.)

But, Rossini didn't write for tuba in any of his later works, either, which (if memory serves properly) were mostly sacred or semi-sacred pieces.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

However I didn't know because I am playing The William Tell Overture in Orchestra and there is in fact a tuba part.

Then you, my friend, are playing either an arrangement of the original, or a "created" tuba part that the composer never wrote.

Rossini didn't write any operas after 1829 (William Tell was, in fact, the last one he wrote in that year). The tuba wasn't used in orchestras until several years after that. The Symphonie Fantastique is widely accepted to be the first piece to use tuba, having first been scored for two ophicleides and later reorchestrated by Berlioz for tubas sometime after completion in 1830.

The Barber of Seville was completed in 1816...way too early to have a tuba part, to answer your original question.

[Richardrichard9]

However I didn't know because I am playing The William Tell Overture in Orchestra and there is in fact a tuba part.

Then you, my friend, are playing either an arrangement of the original, or a "created" tuba part that the composer never wrote.

Rossini didn't write any operas after 1829 (William Tell was, in fact, the last one he wrote in that year). The tuba wasn't used in orchestras until several years after that. The Symphonie Fantastique is widely accepted to be the first piece to use tuba, having first been scored for two ophicleides and later reorchestrated by Berlioz for tubas sometime after completion in 1830.

The Barber of Seville was completed in 1816...way too early to have a tuba part, to answer your original question.

Got it.. Thanks for the info