The ‘Easy Concert Pieces’ series presents a varied selection of easy concert pieces for double bass and piano from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods through to the modern era. To facilitate choosing individual pieces for performance and auditions at music schools, competitions or examinations these pieces have been ordered according to level of musical and technical difficulty.
Book 1 contains pieces in half and first position. Pieces in each position and some using position changes are presented from each era. Simple techniques such as portato, staccato and legato bowing are introduced along with pizzicato, using rudimentary dynamics ranging from piano to forte, crescendo and decrescendo and simple phrasing. The pieces selected here are varied in character with memorable tunes, a few different time signatures and simple rhythms.
"A very welcome publication for beginner double bass players, this collection is right on target...Thoroughly recommended" - Cathy Elliot, ESTA ARCO
Luis de Milán (ca. 1500-1561): Pavane
Cesare Negri (ca. 1535-1604): Spagnoletto
Valentin Haussmann (ca. 1560-1614): Alla Tedesca
John Eccles (1668-1735): Menuett
Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): Bourrée
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Spring from “The Four Seasons"
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Menuett
Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800): The Moon Has Risen
Giuseppe Tommaso Giordani (1751-1798): Minuetto
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Allegro
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9
Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889): Allegretto
Johannes Brahms (1833-1879): Lullaby
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887): Prince Igor
Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky (1840-1893): Swan Lake
Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Largo, from Symphony No. 9 ”From the New World”
Gustav Mahler (1869-1911): Theme from Symphony No. 1
Friedrich Radermacher (*1924): A Serious Matter
Friedrich Radermacher (*1924): All Is Well That Ends Well!
Hermann Regner (1928-2008): Recitativo and Cellar Aria
Hermann Regner: What a Stress!
Teppo Hauta-aho (*1941): The Singing Hippo
Frank Wunsch (*1945): Dorian Blue
Marianne Magolt (*1953): A Little March
Difficulty: very easy
