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Unaccompanied flute sonatas.

Fortissimosca wrote:Unaccompianed is the way to go! Don't have to mess with finding accompianist.

Also tends to be boring as hell for most of the audience.

The Tuba Source book has a whole big list of 'em too.
BTW I thought I heard about a second edition, anyone know for sure? (and where I can get it)
Bill Pritchard

Fortissimosca wrote:
I'm not a big fan of Persichetti's Serenade #12, but you might be...

I played the Persichetti a few times and I really like it. Challenging, but not impossible. Cerebral, but not alienating. You should at least pick it up, its a standard.

Yes, there's another edition coming soon. However, I'm not sure when it will be availabe for sale. Joseph Skillen is working on part of it and I think he's just completed his portion not too long ago.

-KY

There is a beautiful unaccompanied piece by John Stevens entitled Elegy that is printed in the most recent ITEA Journal. Information about the piece can be found at http://www.iteaonline.org/Journal/32N1/32N1gem6.shtml.

Going of of Seans comment about Flue Sonatas.... there is a great book "Seven Sonatas" by Handel (Schirmer)....and although they have piano accompaniment some of them realyl do work well alone.... I have used a few on occassion and never had anyone ask if there should have been another part. Just a thought, I know some people may think I am horrible for playing them that way, but I like how they sound. And down the road if you want to add the piano part there is always the option.

also Bach for Tuba Vol. I (bixby)..... has some very nice stuff.

I'll put in another vote for unaccompanied flute music. I have been playing from a book of Telemann sonatas lately, and enjoying it a lot.

Flute music can be played straight from the book if you know treble clef -- just play it down two octaves. The range of a flute dropped two octaves is a fine fit for an F tuba, but you can play it on a contrabass tuba if your high range is decent. [The old flute range was from the D above middle C up two octaves and half to A, but mostly not higher than E.]

Allen Walker

Steve Marcus wrote:There is a beautiful unaccompanied piece by John Stevens entitled Elegy that is printed in the most recent ITEA Journal. Information about the piece can be found at http://www.iteaonline.org/Journal/32N1/32N1gem6.shtml.

For those of us that are not members of ITEA, is there any way to buy and/or preview this piece?

Sounds like a reason to join. I hope you consider it.

Mark

Depends on exactly what you're looking for...

Any solo type material to play unaccompanied on tuba

OR

music originally written for unaccompanied tuba