tuba euph duets

[Carroll]

Walter Sear - Tuba Duets
Shostokovich - Preludes (Yeo)
Mozart - Sonata
Telemann - Canonic Sonatas
Boismortier - Rokoko Duets
Twenty-Five Baroque and Classical Duets transcribed by Kenneth Singleton
Hindemith - Stuecke for Basson and Cello
H. Couillaud - Quatre Etudes
Tommy Pederson - 10 Bass Trombone Duets and 10 Pieces for 2 Bass Trombones and 10 Duets for Tenor and Bass Trombone
Stevens - Dialouges for Trombone and Tuba
Rochut/Erwin - 20 Counterparts
Duetten uit de Renaissance - Transcribed by Kees Blokker
Charlie Small - Conversation
Uber - Petite Duos (Tenor and Bass)

[imperialbari]

There is a baroque repertory for bassoon and basso continuo. Maybe you will find some of it (for free) at the Russian resource site I referred to in a recent posting:

http://www.fagotizm.narod.ru/library-eng.htm

There also exists a repertory of duets of bass viol and violone (if old) or cello and double bass (if newer). The tuba will have to read octave down, which in my eyes, literarily so, is much easier, than reading a horrible lot of ledger lines below the staff.

And then there is the whole lot of baroque sonatas for recorder, flute, oboe, or violin with basso continuo. Some is garbage, some is good, but that goes for all genres.

The solo line has to be taken down an octave, and it has to be read from treble clef C-notation. Not at all a problem for a solo player used to work in a church environment. Again the bass line may have to be read down an octave to avoid the parts criss-crossing and thereby creating not desirable intervals.

If you like that genre, I advise, that you learn the said ways of reading right from the outset, as it will save you a whole lot of pencilling or re-engraving.

And the music available from real composers will create you a much larger following, than will the often very boring music written by and for brass players. This is a statement about my musical policy, and I will take the flaming.

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

[imperialbari]

http://www.fagotizm.narod.ru/noty/downl ... ta-eng.htm

will very specifically take you to the download link of Telemann’s sonata in F minor for bassoon and BC.

Playable as is, even if I will recommend taking the bass line an octave down most of the way, if not all the way, for the purpose of clarity.

If you can find a guitar player able to read the chords from a ciphered bass line, then the harmonic structure will be better presented.

An elementary knowledge of the execution of baroque embellishments won’t hurt either.

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

[tubatooter1940]

Klaus,
Your posts always inspire me. I agree that the music will speak for itself.
We just have to assemble players who cut it and can think outside the box about instrumentation.
I remember a flute solo named, "Swinging Shepard Blues" that sounded sweet on flute, barely tolerable on trumpet and delightful on tuba.

[Steve Marcus]

There are some beautiful tuba-euph duets performed by John Stevens on tuba with his daughter, Katie, on euphonium on the Summit CD entitled "Reverie."

[dwerden]

I just finished an arrangement of a Mozart duet. It was originally for cello and bassoon, so it sounds very nice on low instruments. It is in 3 movements, unaccompanied. As of its debut at the ITEC booths, it is available from Cimarron Music:

http://www.cimarronmusic.com/search.cfm?ID=1152

[Chuck(G)]

Golly guys, this is old news! I posted a link to the site last year:

viewtopic.php?p=69153&sid=571cfe521ef80 ... 0cf9224b5a

[dwerden]

FYI: the arrangement I linked above has been reformatted and moved to a better key for the euphonium and tuba combination.

[imperialbari]

Golly guys, this is old news! I posted a link to the site last year:

viewtopic.php?p=69153&sid=571cfe521ef80 ... 0cf9224b5a

The Mozart duet is a fine piece, but I am not entirely convinced that it is a good choice for a euphonium/tuba duet.

The cello obviously is set below the soloist bassoon part most of the way. But it still is set so high, that anything but the smallest bass tuba would out-power the soloist euph. I rather would suggest this duet played by two euphs.

The difference between the baroque composers and Mozart is, that where the former were flexible about the bass line being played in the 8' or 16' ranges, then Mozart wrote exactly, what he wanted regarding pitches.

The Icking edition linked to puzzles me a bit, as Mozart normally would be quite exact with his notation of articulations in his string parts (but not in his brass parts). The cello part has some repeated bass notes, which Mozart normally would mark staccato, but these notes are not marked at all in the Icking version.

Still I will recommend this version, only it might be helpful to refer with an experienced string player for the articulations.

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

[BVD Press]

I didn't get a chance to add them before ITEC because I ran out of time, but I have added .pdf samples for all of the new charts that came out at the ITEC and ITG Conferences last month. I believe there were 41 new charts which include the Mozart duets and lots of other chamber ensemble pieces.

We have also added 11 new new .mp3's in the tuba quartet section. Thanks again All the King's Tubas and Tim Olt!!!!

My apologies for the same post in the Capuzzi thread!