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Double Bass Wishlist
List of Compositions Featuring the Double Bass
Edition Silvertrust: Chamber Music with Bass
The Chamber Music Journal
Chamber Music Guides
Catalog of concertos:
Philip H. Albright, 1969. Original solo concertos for the double bass. Eastman school of music of the University of Rochester (PhD diss.)
Nestor Zayas, 2010. A Selection of the Most Significant Concertos for Double Bass Written since 1970: Reviews and Performance Approaches. Florida State University (PhD diss.)
Thomas Nickerson, 2015. Thematic Catalogue for Upright Bass Concerti. California Polytechnic State University (Bacherlor thesis)
Robin de Zeeuw, 2013. De Weense bas; Een erfenis uit een glansrijk verleden. Universiteit Utrecht (Bachelor thesis)
Repertoire of the Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet
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From Milan conservatory digital library: Bottesini, Czerny
- Domenico Dragonetti
- George Pigott: Septet arrangements at Cambridge ([1], [2])
- Double Bass Concerto in E minor by Édouard Nanny: orchestra version (maybe from Amazon? Probably not; compare with Carl Fischer)
- Giovanni Bottesini: Opac SBN (search bottesini and click "digitalizzati")
- Duo for double bass and cello
- String quartets
- Elegia, Tarantella, Reverie
- Passione Amorosa: duet for 2 basses
- Adolf Lotter: Concerto (unpublished, might be in Prague Conservatoire)
- Charles Labro - The other bass concertinos
- Serge Koussevitzky
- Double Bass Concerto No.1, Op.15, by Theodor Albin Findeisen: Orchestral score and parts
- Henri Casadesus: Sinfonia Concertante for Viola d'Amore and Double Bass, "by Bernard Lorenziti"
- Achille Gouffé: Double Bass Concertino Op.10
- Hisato Ōzawa: double bass concerto (premiered in 2017; YouTube)
- Gustav Láska
- Vittorio Giannini: Psalm
- Arcady Dubensky (1890 - 1966): Valse-Fantasie for double bass and piano, Prelude & Fugue for double bass quartet
- René Jullien: Allegro de Concert (BNF)
- Robert Fuchs: Opp.96/97 manuscripts in ONB (2 in progress, 3)
- Frantisek Gregora (1819 - 1887): 17 concertos, string quintet, etc
- Eduard Pöckh sen.: Concerto Brevis (obv, Mozarteum; performed in 1926)
- Adolph Moissl: Concerto, piano accompaniment copied by Gustav Láska (RISM), new edition in SLUB
- Vojta Kuchynka (1871-1942): pieces for double bass and piano (le désir; WorldCat); czech national songs for two double basses
- Pedro Valls (1869-1935): Suite Andaluza (YouTube)
Chamber Music
Romantic chamber music in its cultural contexts
Repertoire of the Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet
Guide to music for double bass and piano
- Charles Villiers Stanford: Serenade-Nonet Op.95 (published by Phylloscopus; mentioned in Chamber Music Journal Vol.11 No.1)
- Johann Martin Friedrich Nisle: see blokmuz.nl
- Septet in E-flat major for flute, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violas, cello and bass, ca. 1820 (FE Edition Dohr)
- Octet in D major for flute, clarinet, 2 horns, 2 violins, viola, cello and bass (FE Edition Dohr)
- Adolphe Blanc
- Hanns Eisler: Nonets (see Breitkopf & Härtel critical commentary
- Antoni Stolpe: Piano Sextet (first published 2003): manuscript in Jagjellonska
- Mikhail Glinka: Grand Septet in E-flat Major (Silvertrust)
- Carl Futterer: Octet (manuscript in Basel, will need to buy facsimile edition: Amadeus, Silvertrust)
- Joseph Holbrooke
- Arthur Lourié
- Improperium for baritone, 2 violins and double bass
- Epilogue for string quintet
- Jiří Družecký: Serenade / Octet (Silvertrust)
- Julius Goltermann: Souvenirs de Bellini (cello and bass; first edition)
- August Alexander Klengel: Piano Quintet (see Dragonetti; probably not Grande Polonoise Concertante, Op.35)
- Charles Nicolas Baudiot
- Theme and Variations apparently for cello and double bass, from this record
- Johann Baptist Cramer: Piano Quintet No.3, Op.79, first edition (WorldCat)
- Nicholas Charles Bochsa: Septet
- Onslow: Quintets copied and/or arranged by Achille Gouffé (BNF)
- Mišek: String Quintet (first edition; WorldCat)
- Molbe: Opp. 20, 21, 26, 31, 45, 65, 81, 83, 84, 89, 104, 109, 110, 111, 113, 118, 122, 123, 125, 128, 129, 131, 136
- Octet, Op.20: Score (ONB), Parts (ONB)
- Decet, Op.21: Score (ONB), Parts (ONB)
- Tanzweisen, Op.26: Score (ONB)
- Octet, Op.45: Score (ONB), Parts (ONB)
- Decet, Op.104: Score (ONB)
- Miles: String Quintet No.3 (and maybe piano quintet?)
- Quilter: Phantasy Quintet "Gypsy Life" (for piano sextet)
- Neukomm
- Septet, NV 458 ? (according to The Last Trumpet: A History of the English Slide Trumpet)
- Septet, NV 460 ? (BNF 1, BNF 2)
- Anonymous (Boccherini or Hoffmeister?): Flute Quintet No.3 (first edition)
- Cimador: Mozart symphonies and piano concertos arranged for sextet (example)
- Lachner: Septet (Incomplete autograph score, incomplete parts, first edition)
- Elsner: Septet
- Rousselot
- Septet, Op.28: missing wind parts
- Gatti: Septet (Settomino) Concertante and others
- Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri: finale arranged for cello, bass, horn and piano, played by Dragonetti in 1831
- Massenet
- Pfeiffer: String Quintet (according to La symphonie dans la cité: Lille au XIXe siècle) (this one was a dud: Autographes de musiciens contemporains)
- Bruch: Septet
- Pieces published by Robert Ostermeyer Musikedition, such as by Joseph Reicha, Friedrich Witt, Georg Feldmayr, Paul Wineberger
- Joseph Mannl (1745-1777): Cassatio (Divertimento) for flute, 2 horns, viola, bass (at LBMV, RISM)
- Haydn: Flute Concerto in D major, Hob.VIIf:D1 (RISM)
- Giorgetti: String Sextets (RISM)
- Otakar Zich: Chod Suite, Op.3a, for Octet or Nonet ([3])
- Peter Lichtenthal: Septet
- Edm. Eeckhautte: Suite No.3 pour Contrebasse et Piano (1908)
- Luise Adolpha Le Beau: String Quintet in C minor, Op.54 (YouTube); First edition in SBB where the autograph manuscript is supposedly located; more info at WorldCat
- However, it was originally for two cellos and the modern-day editor added a double bass option.
- Suite for 3 Cellos and Bass in C major, WV 445, by Georg Christoph Wagenseil: Complete material, maybe original version with 2 violas? [4]
- Rudolf Karel: Nonett (Carus Verlag 1995); but orchestrated from short score by the editor, so eligibility is doubtful
- René de Boisdeffre: Septet, Op.49, remaining movements
- Louis Théodore Gouvy: Sérénade Op.82, Op.84 for flute and string quintet (or strings)
- Benoit Constant Fauconier
- Joseph Lauber: Remaining double bass compositions that were published by Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia but aren't on Patrinum yet
- Bernard Alt (1903-1945) : Suite for 4 Double Basses (1933) (YouTube); Biography by David Heyes
- Arnold Bax: Octet (horn, piano, strings)
Other
Dragonetti Publications
Incipit of Dragonetti's "Grande Concerto in D" as published by Doblinger (WorldCat), via Michal Bylina:
Incipit of Dragonetti's "Concerto No. 5" as published by Doblinger (WorldCat), via Vito Liuzzi:
See also: Concerto No. 1 by Doblinger (WorldCat)
Martignon Numbers
Thematic Catalogues
Non-PD selections
Just a list of good repertoire to keep in mind, nothing more.
Orchestra
String Orchestra
- Lars-Erik Larsson (1908 – 1986): Concertino, Op.45 No.11 (1957)
- Thomas Goss: Concerto
- Gordon Jacob (1895 – 1984): A Little Concerto (1972)
- Virgilio Mortari (1902 – 1993): Elegia e Capriccio (from Duettini Concertati for violin & bass)
- Peter Paul Koprowski (1947): Concerto for double bass, strings and percussion
- Alan Ridout (1934 – 1996): Concerto (1974)
- Alexander Verster: Concerto (mvt.1,mvt.2,mvt.3)
- Živojin Glišić: Concerto (YouTube)
- Alexander Litvinovsky: Pelléas et Mélisande, Le Grand Cahier
Wind Ensemble
- Burnet Tuthill: Concerto
- Paul Chihara: Dances & Reveries
- Calliope Tsoupakis: Kentavros (with wind ensemble and piano)
- Clark McAlister: Diferencias sobre Cervantes (for double bass, english horn and chamber winds)
- Dana Wilson: Concerto
Concert Band
- Andrew Seager Cole: Concerto "Naya Jeevan"
- Charles Rochester Young: Southern Concerto
- Luis Serrano Alarcón: Concerto
Piano
Solo
- Emil Tabakov: Motivy
- Philip Glass: Partita "The not-doings of an insomniac"
- Hans Fryba: Suite im Alten Stil
- Vagn Holmboe: Solo Sonata, Op.82 (1962)
- Mieczyslaw Weinberg: Solo Sonata, Op.108
- Virgilio Mortari: Foli d'Album
- Nicholas Walker: Chorale
- Pēteris Vasks: Bass Trip
- Luciano Berio: Psy
- David Heyes: This We Know
- David Ellis: Sonata, Op.42
Other
- Astor Piazzolla
- Contrabajeando
- Contrabajissimo
- Kicho
- Virgilio Mortari: Duettini Concertati (violin& double bass)
- Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes for Orchestra (Variacion No.XI)
- Sean McClowry: Concerto for Double Bass and Chamber Ensemble (YouTube)
- Zdeněk Lukáš: Duo di Basso (with cello)
- Transcriptions for piano quintet by Marek Zebrowski
- Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye transcribed for piano quintet by Roland Kato (YouTube)
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Piano Quintet
- Kees van Baaren: Septet (wind quintet + violin + bass)
- Darius Milhaud: String Quintet No.2
- Ernst Levy: Streichquintett (1916); Musicaneo
Chinese Watchlist
Numbered notation: jianpu [简谱/簡譜], sheet music: yuepu [乐谱/樂譜]
Summer Thunder Music: archive of scores
Hong Kong Baptist University Library: Resounding the Scores
- Abing: Recorded on magnetic wire by professors Cao Anhe [曹安和] (1905-2004) and Yang Yinliu [杨荫浏] (1899-1984) on 4 september 1950; the recordings were published following his death. They are already public domain in Canada, since the copyright term was lengthened from 50 to 70 only in 2015, which does not apply retroactively (see paragraph 82 of Act 5 of the Economic Action Plan 2015).
- Er Nie: Public domain, but did not write for chinese instruments (AFAIK)
- Lou Shuhua [婁樹華] (1907-1952): Guzheng [古箏] player, PD in China/Canada. Author of Fishermen's Boats at Dusk [渔舟唱晚] for guzheng solo; not to be confused with the identically named piece for solo violin and piano by Li Guo-quan [黎国荃].
- Huang Haihuai [黄海懷] (1935-1967): Erhu [二胡] player, will be PD in China/Canada in 2018. Composer of Horse Racing [赛马], originally with Yangqin accompaniment. The recording with the composer was made in 1963, and also fell into the public domain in Canada in 2014 (just in time!)
- Liu Raozhang [柳尧章] (1905-1996): Pipa [琵琶] player. Initial author of Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye [春江花月夜], arranged in 1925 for the Shanghai Datong Club from the existing pipa solo melody Xunyang Ye Yue [浔阳夜月]. There is an undated recording of this version with the Datong Club (early 1930s?)
- From YouTube: Xīyáng xiāo gǔ [夕阳箫鼓], popular since the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), a handwritten score for this traditional pipa piece first appeared in 1875 and contained seven untitled sections. The present score from which this excerpt is derived has eight subtitled sections and is taken from Li Fangyuan's New Collection of 13 Pipa Score, 1895.
- Peng Xiuwen [彭修文] (1931-1996): Conductor and composer, the biggest name. Made orchestral arrangements of Erquan Yingyue, Chung Jiang Hua Yue Ye and many others.
- Liu Wenjin [刘文金/劉文金] (1937-2013): Author of Fisherman's Triumphant Song [渔舟凯歌] among many others.
- Liu Xing [刘星/劉星] (b. 1962): Zhongruan [中阮] player, composed some epic solo pieces for the instrument, including the concerto "Reminiscences of Yunnan" [雲南回憶]
- Wang Changyuan [王昌元] (b. 1945 or 1946): Guzheng player, author of Zhan Tai Feng [战台风]. Is shown playing the piece in the film Bai Hua Zheng Yan [百花争艳] (1976).
- Sun Wenming (1928-1962): blind erhu player, overshadowed by Abing. Composed Liu Bo Qu in 1952.
- Jiang Ying: Silk Road (YouTube)
- Junxia Hou, ed., Diyintiqi Duzouquxuan [低音提琴 独奏曲选] (Beijing: Huayue Publisher, 1998): Selection of solo double bass pieces with a chinese character
Unpublished pieces
Miscellaneous
- Boccherini guitar quintet manuscripts at Library of Congress
- Purcell manuscript
- Codex Turin J.II.9
- Chamber Concerto in G minor, RV 107, by Antonio Vivaldi
- Orphaned bullshit music theory pages: Music Theory, Intervals, The Materials of Music, The Triad, Procedures of Four-Part Harmony; User:BKhon, User:Lndlewis10
- Wind band orchestration reading list
- Wind Quintet shortlist
- Ibert mvt. 1
- Deslandres mvt. 1
- Foerster
- Hedwige Chretien
- Sonata for Clarinet, Flute and Piano, Op.11, by Maurice Emmanuel
- Trio for Flute, Clarinet, and Bassoon, Op.92, by Charles Koechlin, 2nd mvt.
- Violin Concerto in D major, RV 582, by Antonio Vivaldi (Accademia Bizantina; YouTube)
- Motetti e sonate concertati, Op.6, by Tarquinio Merula (figured bass in moveable type)
- Gustav Mahler [6]
- Scherzo: in Wienbibliothek im Rathaus (formerly Wiener Stadtbibliothek), [7], [8]
- Presto: at The Morgan Library & Museum (formerly Pierpont Morgan Library) but not digitized
- Also other unfinished works and sketches at the Morgan Library
- Das Lied von der Erde, autograph piano+voice score?
- String orchestra arrangements
- Lists
- Piano quintets
- 10. Ries
- 9. Onslow
- 8. Farrenc 2
- 7. Goetz
- 6. Zwilich/Fries?
- 5. Sowinski
- 4. Cramer 3
- 3. Schubert
- 2. Labor
- Honorary: Ravel Ma Mère l'Oye arr. Roland Kato
- 1. RVW
- String quintets
- 10. Lachner
- 9. Onslow
- 8. Farrenc
- 7. Blanc 7
- 6. Félicien David
- 5. Bottesini
- 4. Dvorak 2
- 3. Walckiers 2
- 2. Milhaud
- Ernst Levy?
- Honorary: Dragonetti?
- 1. Boccherini 338
- Winds and strings
- 8. Farrenc
- 6. Eggert sextet
- 5. Boccherini 467
- 4. Wood
- 3. Prokofiev
- 2. Nino Rota
- Honorary: Brahms
- 1. Foerster
- Winds
- Scipion Rousselot?
- Lauber octet
- Sigismond Neukomm
- Mozart Gran Partita
- Nielsen
- Dvorak
- Honorary: Ferenc Farkas
- Winds, strings and piano
- Balakirev?
- Saint-Saëns?
- Krogulski?
- Hummel septet?
- Potter sextet?
- 1. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
- Double bass and piano
- Nanny "Dragonetti"
- Glière Intermezzo & Tarantella
- Vilmos Montag?
- 3. Fuchs Op.97
- 2. Desenclos
- Honorary: Lauber morceaux d'église
- 1. Jongen
- Viennese concertos
- 10. Dittersdorf
- 5. Hoffmeister 1: Strength
- 4. Pichl: Elegance
- 3. Vanhal: Intimacy
- 2. Zimmermann: Resonance
- Honorary mention: Mozart aria
- Dishonorable mention: Kozeluch
- 1. Kohaut
- Double bass and orchestra
- 4. Bottesini No.1
- 3. Tubin?
- 2. Nino Rota
- 1. Thomas de Hartmann
- Double bass and strings
- Bottesini concertino
- Lars-Erik Larsson
- Thomas Goss
Errata
- Cello Concerto in D minor, RV 407, by Antonio Vivaldi: solo part, second movement, begins in tenor clef, but the clef change is missing. But it's been too long (updates in the software would make this a new edition), and the error should be obvious to any performer, so not planning to fix. Seen used in the wild: YouTube YouTube YouTube, and YouTube YouTube
- De profundis clamavi by Nicolas Champion: A terrible typeset of the terrible printing in Dodecachordon. AFAIK, any errors are from the source material rather than my typeset, and I'm only leaving it up because the extra rythmic complexity from the Dodecachordon version might be worth checking out, but for all other purposes, use Garvin's typeset from Liber Selectarum Cantionum. If I'd known that the motet was featured there, too, I wouldn't have typeset from Dodecachordon.
- Double Bass Concerto No.6 in D major by Domenico Dragonetti
- Man up and check articulations, dynamics, tutti/solo in parts (not man enough)
- 3 String Quintets, G.337-339 (Op.39), by Luigi Boccherini
- Mvt.1 bar 19: 2 octave difference between clarinet and flute
- Mvt.1 bar 35: check if trumpet not too difficult
- Mvt.1 bar 55: Upbeat in bar. sax and tuba is doubled by the other line and may be better off omitted
- Mvt.1 bar 63: not much variety in the three steps of the crescendo (e.g. too early entrance of trumpets masks the other instruments)
- Mvt.1 bar 72: check positions of chord notes
- Mvt.1 bar 97: flz. not possible to play piano, especially in trumpets and trombones
- Mvt.1 bar 113: trumpet 1 may not blend with flutes/clarinets if unmuted
- Mvt.2 beginning: consider bass clarinet instead of bassoon, creates a clarinet choir
- Mvt.2 Oboe solo: consider adding more articulations
- End of Mvt.4: Bassoon part not cued in any other part
- Mvt.4 bar 9: Clar. 1 misplaced staccato
- Sextet in E-flat major, G.467, by Luigi Boccherini
- Mvt.2, bar 44: Oboe low B-flat perhaps should be exchanged with clarinet
- Trio, bar 2: Clarinet empty measure has rests spelled out
- Preface says "No musical material was omitted" but one element was left out somewhere, although I don't remember which
- Septuor Concertant by Sigismund Neukomm
- Title page says the flute part incorporates material from the trumpet, but this isn't the case
- String Quartet in C major by Johann Hindle
- Some accidentals still have square brackets
- Cello part: bad spacing in allegro moderato
- String Quintet No.1 by Georges Bousquet
Formative albums
- Hille Perl - Doulce Memoire (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1999)
- Pomerium - Musical Book of Hours (Archiv Produktion, 1998)
- Musica Fiata - Venetian Music at the Habsburg Court (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1991)
- Theatrum Instrumentorum – Dulces Et Fortissimae (New Tone Records, 1994)
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band - Stadtpfeiffer: Music of Renaissance Germany (Dorian Recordings, 2001)
- Doulce Memoire - Henri IV & Marie de Medicis : Messe de mariage (Astrée, 2000)
- Alta Capella Und Citharedi Der Schola Cantorum Basiliensis - »A La Ferrarese« Bassadanze, Balli E Canzoni (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1991)
Competition ideas
Chinese programme
- Zhang Baoyuan - Grassland Song
- Pingsha Luoyan
American Programme
- David Heyes - This We Know
- Philip Glass - Double Bass Partita
- Alan Hovhannes - Fantasy for Double Bass and Piano, Op.277
With Organ
Orchestral Programme
Ukrainian Programme
French Programme
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