Pupil's Book. By Sheila Nelson. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 12 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

(Solo Contrabass Archive Edition). By Elliott Carter (1908-). For Double Bass, Contrabass. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Boosey & Hawkes #M051105625. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

Double Bass

SKU: BT.YE0007

Yorke Edition. Composed by F. Baines. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0007. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0007).

Born in Oxford in 1917, Francis Baines was a well-known and much respected professional double bass player. He studied at the Royal College of Music in London with Claude Hobday, where he later taught. Something of an eccentric,he immersed himself in early music at a time when few people were taking it seriously. He owned a beautiful Amati bass that he had restored as a violone, which it probably was originally, and he was a regular fixture as aprincipal player in a number of orchestras and ensembles that dedicated themselves to period performing, including those directed by Denys Darlow, with whom he broadcast and recorded frequently.

Besi des playing thedoublebass, Francis Baines was an exponent of the treble viol and led the Jaye Consort of Viols which he founded. He also played several kinds of bagpipe and the hurdy-gurdy. As a composer he dabbled in many styles, one of hisgreatest claims to fame being that of writing for the popular Hoffnung concerts in the 1960s.

He was the author of a number of papers about the history of the double bass, sometimes arriving at scholarly conclusionsthat were colourful, if not always entirely accurate. He discovered the Giovannino del Violone sonatas, subsequently published by Yorke Edition, although today it is thought that they were probably not written for a 16' pitchinstrument at all. His edition of the Capuzzi double bass concerto, published by Boosey & Hawkes, was for many years one of the few solo works available for the instrument. This, however, he largely re-composed because hethought it could be improved: towards the end of his life he confessed that with hindsight he probably should have treated it differently.

Gro unds was written in 1969 as a sort of party piece and was given to YorkeEdition in support of a drive to enlarge the repertoire for the instrument in a wide variety of styles. It was set on the syllabus of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music for many years.

Francis Baines died.

With CDs of Performances and Accompaniments. Edited by Catherine Elliott. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover with CD. 60 pages. Boosey & Hawkes #M060132261. Published by Boosey & Hawkes

(Volume 1 With a CD of Piano Accompaniments). For Double Bass. Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover with CD. 75 pages. Bote and Bock #M202523414. Published by Bote and Bock

(Volume 2 With a CD of Piano Accompaniments). For Double Bass. Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover with CD. 111 pages. Bote and Bock #M202523469. Published by Bote and Bock

(Volume 3 (5 1/2 - 7 position), Book/CD). For Double Bass. Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Book with CD. 92 pages. Bote and Bock #M202523155. Published by Bote and Bock

For Double Bass. Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Softcover. 56 pages. Bote and Bock #M202523360. Published by Bote and Bock

By Paul Ramsier. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

A Musical Tale for Children. By Paul Ramsier. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 8 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Double Bass - Book 1. By Gerald Howard, Sheila Nelson, Adrian Thorne, Catherine Elliott. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 36 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Double Bass - Book 2. By Gerald Howard, Sheila Nelson, Adrian Thorne, Catherine Elliott. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 32 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Student Volume II. By Paul Rolland. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 60 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

For Solo Contrabass. By Jacob Druckman. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. Size 11x14 inches. 12 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Kurkikohtaus. By Jean Sibelius. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 1 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

Double Bass Part Only. By Sheila Nelson. (Double Bass). Boosey and Hawkes Chamber Music. 8 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.