For Double Bass. Includes newly engraved solo charts printed on acid-free, ivory paper; and two compact discs featuring complete versions of each tune, plus a recording of the accompaniments minus the soloist. Also includes slow-tempo versions of most up-tempo pieces for practice purposes. Published by Music Minus One.

(A Comprehensive Method in Developing a Total Musical Concept for the Aspiring Jazz Bass Player). By Rufus Reid. For Bass Guitar. Artist/Personality; Bass Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. Book. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Double Bass

SKU: BT.YE0060

Composed by Giovanni Bottesini. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0060. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0060).

Since this first authentic collected edition of Bottesini's solos in modern notation appeared, many items have been recorded and reproduced in other versions. Elegia e Tarantella, Meditazione (Aria di Bach), FantasiaCerrito.

Gr ade: Advanced.

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.

Double Bass

SKU: BT.YE0054

Exam Material. Book Only. 5 pages. Yorke Edition #YE0054. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0054).

Serge Lancen's Berceuse for Baby Hippopotamus is a short and easy melodic solo in French romantic style. Ideal for a school concert. Recorded Goilav (Christophorus).

Grade: 5.

Book/CD Pack. By John Goldsby. Book (not sheet music). Book and CD package. Size 8.38x10.88 inches. 228 pages. Published by Backbeat Books.

(A Comprehensive String Method) Written by Brenda Mitchell, Joanne Erwin, Kathleen Horvath, Robert D McCashin. Instructional book and accompaniment CD for double bass. Series: New Directions for Strings. 56 pages. Published by The FJH Music Company Inc.