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Hey Bass Bones or Bass Bone Doubles!! This is for you!!
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:36 pm
by smurphius
I'm looking to get a little bit of good literature for bass bone, and I was just wondering if any of you all had any suggestions for some advanced level solos. Thanks as always!
Matt Murphy
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 8:43 pm
by Mudman
All advanced lit, gr 5-6 (personal favorites) A couple are extremely difficult (Siekmann):
Good recital opener: Koetsier "Allegro Maestoso"
Good one-mvt piece: Ewazen "Concertino"
Good unaccompanied suite for practice: Culver "Suite" (dance of delicate sorrow mvt is excellent on a recital)
Good 20th century, jazz influenced piece: Sneider "Concerto: Sub Zero"
Tenor/Bass duet: Small "Conversation"
Hard and flashy: Siekmann "Concerto" --Charlie vernon wrote the Star Trek theme into the cadenza
Effective unaccompanied recital piece: T.J. Anderson "Minstrel Man" (you accompany yourself with bass drum and hi-hat.
Fun and Showy Theme and Variation Piece: Barnacle Bill the Sailor
The list goes on . . . let me know if you have any questions about bass bone lit (It is my bread and butter)
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:39 pm
by MartyNeilan
There is also the three movement Ewazen concerto. Plus the infamous Bach cello suites, check out Doug Yeo's arrangements. Pretty much any F tuba lit lays well on teh bass trombone. Some guys even tackle the Vaughan Williams
Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 9:59 pm
by imperialbari
One single book will keep you occupied in your studio for a full lifetime, if you attempt to do it even a moderately fair justice musicwise:
Bach's cello suites.
If not for God's, then for music's sake get a cello version and do your own notes based on your more or less thorough understanding of high-baroque counterpoint and harmony.
You will find both everywhere in this fine music, and I am not hinting towards the occasional passages with double stops.
Bach is a master in creating melodic tension by voicings, which basically are the top line of suspended chords. This is only a minor aspect of Bach's richness, but if you are not prepared to do analyses of this type, then please stay away from this fine music.
One never should claim copyright to profound crimes. Yet that is, what I hereby do:
If my chair will last my callused behind long enough, I will issue tuba quartet versions of at least some movements from this fine book.
Those breaking my copyright will get calluses in unwanted places. Nobody would like to know my record in doing the voodoo.
Klaus