SKU: BT.EMBZ14370

Hungarian-English-German-French.

All over the world, younger and younger music students are choosing the double-bass as their instrument. Our selection is designed specifically for music school pupils, as a supplement to the material in double-bass tutors, to make their studies more varied and enjoyable.

SKU: CY.CC2941

ISBN 9790530057605.

Lassen's Zwei Phantasiestucke (Two Fantasies), opus 48 for Bass Trombone and Orchestra were composed in 1873 while he was music director in Weimar after Liszt's retirement.
This scholarly edition by Peter Celentano Jr. has been edited for solo with Piano accompaniment.
The 1st movement Andacht (Devotion), is slow, lyrical and serious, while the 2nd movement Abendreigen (Evening Folk Dance) is playful and joyous. This music will make a great addition for recitals.
It is one of the first Bass Trombone solos from the Romantic period and is appropriate for moderately advanced performers and may also be performed on a Trombone with f-attachment.
This work of about 8-9 minutes in length.

SKU: EC.RBM-124

This composition was commissioned in 2015 by the City of Fairfax Band and was premiered by that ensemble incollaboration with the Fairfax Choral Society on December 19 ^th of that year, under the baton of Robert J. Pouliot. The work was originally scored for symphonic wind ensemble and SATB chorus and has subsequently been transcribed for use in an orchestral/choral platform with the same voicing. (3.3.3.3, 4.3.3.1, timp. 3 perc., harp & strings).

The work is a setting of two Catholic liturgical texts traditionally associated with the season of Advent: Hodie, Christus Natus Est and O Magnum Mysterium. The work is a traditional arch-form in onemovement, a setting of the more reflective O Magnum Mysterium text being framed by a more ebullient and assertive treatment of the Hodie, Christus Natus Est text. There are passages of declamatory and angular rhythmic statements throughout, interspersed with contrasting sections of broad lyricism and reflectiveness. The piece begins and ends with triumphant brass and choral textures. 

This work is suitable for any Christmas program, especially as an opening or closing number.

No vocal soloists are called for in the performance of this work.

SKU: FP.FDW03

ISBN 9790570500789.

Gounod's classic piece, arranged for double bass, with piano accompaniment.

The music in the beginning tells the listener that two of the members of the Marionette troupe have had a duel and one of them has been killed. A party of pallbearers is organised and the procession sets out for the cemetery in march time.

The piece soon takes on a more cheerful spirit, for some of the troupe, wearied with the march, seek consolation at a wayside inn, where they refresh themselves and also descant upon the many virtues of their late companion. At last they get into place again and the procession enters the cemetery to the march rhythm -- the whole closing with the bars intended to reflect upon the briefness and weariness of life, even for marionettes.

SKU: EC.RBM-021A

ISBN 688670440038. UPC: 688670440038.

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SKU: EC.RBM-019

8.5 x 11 inches.

This piece was composed in 2005 for a special Christmas performance in Midland, TX – the composer’s home town. Once also a resident of this city, Joneva Kaylen, noted operatic soprano now singing primarily in Europe, was featured on a special performance featuring this composition with the composer conducting and Ms. Kaylen as soloist.

The text is drawn from a Bach cantata and the vocal scores include an English translation which may be sung in place of the preferred German. The work is scored for Soprano Tenor solo, SATB Chorus and small Orchestra (2222 / 2000, 2 perc, hp, stgs).

SKU: AP.1-ADV15000

ISBN 9783892210078. UPC: 805095150001. English.

Covers right/left hand playing techniques, bass lines (walking, modal, jazz-rock, Latin, etc.), arpeggios, phrasing and articulation, scales, etudes, and more.

SKU: EC.RBM-111

This composition was commissioned by the Fairfield University Glee Club of Fairfield, CT, and was created to help usher in, musically, the end of the old millennium and the start of the new one. The piece was premiered in the Spring of 2001, and the first performance was led by the then conductor of the ensemble, Carol Anne Maxwell.

The structure of the work is that of a brief choral symphony, with a strong melodic basis in the vocal parts and varied instrumental figuration in the accompaniment forces. Each of the 4 movements is quite unique in style and form, and could each be performed separately if the programming occasion warranted so doing.

The text is drawn from a number of sources, one for each of the 4 movements:
1.Lao-Tsu
2.Isaiah 58 (Holy Bible; paraphrased)
3.St. Ignatius of Loyola
4.Anonymous (from the Sanskrit)

The work is scored for brass quintet (2 tpt, hn, trbn & tuba), two percussion and organ, and the accompaniment package is available for purchase [RBM-207].

SKU: EC.RBM-253

Casey at the Bat was commissioned in 2001 by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra as a part of their Americana concert series from that season. The work is a colorful and highly descriptive narrative setting of the famous poem, “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, first published in an 1885 edition of The San Francisco Chronicle.(The poetry has been slightly paraphrased from the original to replace some arcane terminology.)This composition was conceived in a distinctly cartoonish style – reminiscent of the orchestral music so masterfully created by Carl Stalling and other great film score writers during the Golden Age of the animated short. In addition to brief quotes from Till Eulenspiegel of Richard Strauss, the melody from Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Tilzer-Norworth) is interpolated throughout the fabric of the piece (although the lyrics are never sung).The first performance of this work took place during the Spring of 2001, under the baton of Richard Kaufman and featuring Pat Sajak as narrator of the well-known poem.Audio excerpts from a matchless narrative performance of this piece by Shakespearean actor Sir Derek Jacobi (with the National Symphony of London and the composer conducting) are included below for perusal purposes. The full performance may be purchased as an audio file from Kodanja Records of Dallas, TX. ( dur: 8’ )