SKU: BT.YE0077

English.

Giovanni Bottesini ranks as one of the most famous Double Bass virtuosi ever to have lived. His Metodo Completo Per Contrabbasso or Method For Double Bass appeared in print between 1860 and 1970 in French, Italian and English.
The value of Bottesini's method lies in the gradual progression from simple exercises and rhythms in easy keys, to virtuoso studies that use advance bowing techniques and require a thorough knowledge of the instrument.

Grade: 8.

SKU: BT.YE0030

An easy virtuoso work published here for the first time and now much performed. Recorded Slatford/Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields (EMI). AMEB (Australian Syllabus) 2004. Orchestral material on hire from Yorke Edition (notSpartan).

Programme Note:

As a young professional player in the 1960s, my work as a double bassist with chamber ensembles and small orchestras took me all over the world. This presented an unparalleledopportunity to scour libraries and archives wherever I went. Long before the advent of the photocopier and e-mail, research was far more challenging than it is today. Eastern Europe was particularly difficult to access, withmanycollections kept under lock and key for all but a few hours a week. One quickly found colleagues who were keen to share information gleaned in passing, even though they had no specific interest in one's own particularspecialism (it is so often the peripheral topics that fascinate as much as the main subject under investigation, and one can quickly be side-tracked into political and social issues that have only slender bearing on the job inhand!).

In the early 1970s James Brown, the then sub-principal oboist of the English Chamber Orchestra with whom I was working at the time, stumbled across a small collection of double bass manuscripts at the RoyalDanish State Library in Copenhagen. They were by Franz Anton Leopold Keÿper (b. c.1756, d. Copenhagen 7 June 1815), a double bassist of Dutch origin who worked as principal of the Royal Chapel Orchestra in Copenhagen.Keÿper's son was the bassoonist Franz Jacob August Keÿper (1792-1859). The collection included a number of concertos, some chamber music, and various naïve fragments. Although hardly the work of a Mozart or Haydn,the style is characteristic of the period. For an instrument such as the double bass, whose 18th century solo repertoire is largely written for tunings that are no longer in everyday use, Keÿper's music is easily approachablein its.

SKU: HL.48183742

UPC: 888680859268. 9.0x12.0x0.068 inches.

French and English text.

SKU: HL.14004065

ISBN 9788759867730. English.

SKU: AP.36-52740545

ISBN 9781628768428. UPC: 746241223883. English.

This audition survival guide for teachers and students of all levels begins with one-octave major and minor scales to three sharps and flats. Two-octave scales are introduced subsequently, and the book concludes with three-octave scales to five sharps and flats. Two-octave blues scales to four sharps and flats are included as a bonus. Bowings and fingerings are not included in this workbook, which includes blank staves in the back for teachers to make suggestions. An introduction by Lynne Latham offers tips on how to practice scales and includes a lesson on scale construction and theory.

These products are currently being prepared by a new publisher. While many items are ready and will ship on time, some others may see delays of several months.

SKU: BT.PWM11628

English.

SKU: HL.50510739

ISBN 9790080044698. UPC: 073999891829. 8.0x11.25x0.273 inches. Hungarian, English, German.

Eng., Ger., Hun.

SKU: AP.1-ADV15006

ISBN 9783892212683. UPC: 805095150063. English.

Melodic Playing in the Thumb Position offers a method to solve the problem of being 'ruled by roots'. It can be used as a method to explore the upper reaches of the instrument with a logical harmonic approach, and will aid in developing a more melodic approach to solo playing.

SKU: GI.G-T134

English.