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Does anybody know of any tuba solos, (with or without any kind of accompianiment) that might fit into any of these catagories:

Seralistic
Avant-garde
Aleatoric
Minimalistic
Cross-over
New complexity
Twelve-tone
Eletroacoustic

Aside from the Tuba Source Book, I don't know where to look, or if these works for solo tuba even exist. Any info will be appreciated!

Cage's 4'33" may be played on any instrument as per the composers instructions (not just piano, as is commonly thought).

But as I have already performed it better than anyone else ever will, I don't know why you would bother.

OK, with the possible exception of Zappa's version, but he did it on piano.

Check out this piece called "Whales" by I. Mitsuoka. The solo part consists of squiggly lines written on staff lines. Once you figure out how to do it, it's actually a fun little solo.

A comment on the Whales piece.

I did it in college on a recital, but a little different.

I had a CD of wave and sea sounds playing behind me which set the mood better than music alone.

Careful study of the work led me to create a whole family of sounds, like a pod of whales together. I played each whale with their own valve combination, therefore giving a different timbre for each.

The audience seemed to enjoy it (or maybe it was the free beer we served at the end...)

JKD

Effie Passes a Kidney Stone

My understanding is that Northwestern's music library made a priority to try to collect as much of the published music for solo instruments (with and without accompaniment) as they could. They certainly have a lot of music that fits the bill! I'd try searching their library holdings (google "NUcat"); you may be able to narrow your search to the types of pieces that you want in particular (serial, aleatoric, etc.).

I've performed Cage's "Solo for Tubas in F and Bb"; it's plenty aleatoric, but also pretty workable as well as enjoyable for a "clued-in" crowd. Published by Edition Peters. Gorecki's "Aria" could fall under the heading of "spiritual minimalism"; I've found it to be a bear to play, at any rate. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Dean E wrote:Effie Passes a Kidney Stone

Didn't Alec Girlsgonewilder write that piece?

Minimalist: Giacinto Scelsi's "Maknongan"

Electroacoustic: see Oren Marshall CDs

windshieldbug wrote:

Dean E wrote:Effie Passes a Kidney Stone

Didn't Alec Girlsgonewilder write that piece?

I cant top that.
Seriously though, my copy says by "Ross" and from a dead web site:
http://tubalicious.tripod.com

For the Electro-acoustic, I liked "Still" for tuba and live electronics by Jon Harvey. More interesting then your basic tuba + tape piece.