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Well:

Persichetti - Serenade No. 12
Hartley - Suite for unaccompanied tuba
Anderson - Lyri-Tech I
Spillman - Four Greek Preludes

also consider some Bach....either cello suites, or the Bach for Tuba books....some great material there


there is a start...good luck

You could also try some of the Baroque period unaccompanied flute sonatas by Bach, Telemann and others.

Two octaves down, they fit the range of an F tuba well, but some are not difficult for lower tubas. If you read treble clef, you can just play them from the original flute music. If you do your own copy to bass clef, you could transpose a bit more than two octaves.

Frackenpohl, Tubatunes.

This is a four? movement piece that features a bunch of different styles: Rag, Blues, Latin, and Waltz (I believe) its a lot of fun and a definite crowd pleaser if you do it right. I think you can probably still get it/find it on JW pepper.

I'll second Allen with the baroque flute stuff.....there is SOOOOO much of it out there in print and readily accessible, and as he says...if you read treble cleff, then you are good to go with some great literature. I have a book of Handel Sonatas and Bach Sonatas that I bought from a flute playing friend...and I have been having a lot of fun reading through some of that stuff.... Other stuff just hurts the lips (range) ...

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Canzonet, by Claude Baker

I have tubatunes, it is a 4 movement piece....

Very cool piece, has some percussion effects to be done by the soloist..

Jacob"who hasn't performed it, yet" morgan

Add a short one --

Intrada in C, by Otto Ketting

Interesting, kinda sad & dramatic, generally no set tonic, but it still feels tonal. Played it in college both on euph on a weekly recital (one of the first unaccompanied brass solos at that school in a long time) and later on G contrabass bugle at my senior recital. I got favorable comments each time.

I think it's written for trumpet, but it sounds fine on anything else, too.

The best thing about programming an unaccompanied piece is that you can use one for almost any instrument.

what about Fnugg?

I found this page a few weeks ago and maybe this is the kind of thing you are looking for.

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~dzerkel/reso ... abass.html

Ben

Jared wrote:

G contrabass bugle at my senior recital

whaaa.....

i've never heard of that in a college setting. only DCI I&E

It was my recital, and I could play whatever I wanted to play.

People said that they liked how it sounded, too (thank goodness!).

Hey, on a somewhat related note, how hard is the Penderecki Cappriccio? I've been a fan of his work for a while and I didn't even realize he was cool enough to have written a tuba solo.

I have a one-page intermediate level unaccompanied piece I wrote for horn, that has been performed on a horn recital at the U of AZ. Would anybody be interested in having it transcribed for tuba? It is not particularly modern, more "standard" tonalities, not technically very difficult.

MA

hey, if you are willing to write for tuba, why not. I'd be more than happy to give it a try

I have a lot to do this weekend (setting up a room for an emergency two-month cat-sitting favor) but if I get around to it I'll put that in a good key for tuba and post about it. Anybody who wanted it would have to give me their email. It is copyrighted, BTW, but not published.

MA