For double bass. Intrumental Posters. Poster. Published by Santorella Publications

Score and Parts. Composed by Jorg Widmann. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Double-Bass Library. Contemporary. Score and parts. Composed 2009. 44 pages. Duration 14'. Schott Music #KBB13. Published by Schott Music

Traditional, Old Time, Bluegrass and Celtic Solos. By Mark Geslison. For String Bass. Solos. Fiddle Tunes. Level: Beginning-Intermediate. Book/CD Set. Size 8.75x11.75. 176 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

(Bass Part). Composed by Dr. Shinichi Suzuki. For Bass. This edition: Revised. Book; CD; Method/Instruction; String - Bass (Suzuki); Suzuki. Suzuki Bass School. 24 pages. Published by Alfred Music

By John Goldsby. For bass. Transcribed Bass lines from Volume 41, 48, and 55 of the Aebersold series. Level: intermediate, advanced. Book with CD. Published by Jamey Aebersold Jazz.

by Earl Gately. For Upright Bass. method. Bluegrass. Level: Beginning. Book. Size 8.75x11.75. 44 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

(For the Developing Student). By Janice Tucker Rhoda. For string bass. The ABC's of Bass. Method. Instructional book. Standard notation. 48 pages. Published by Carl Fischer

(Acoustic and Electric). For Bass. Berklee Guide. Softcover Audio Online. Published by Berklee Press

(Studies for Bass - Based on the Violin Studies of Franz Wohlfahrt). Edited by Gaelen McCormick. For double bass. Softcover. 48 pages. Published by Carl Fischer

(Improving Reading and Sight-Reading Skills in the String Classroom or Studio) Edited by Andrew H. Dabczynski, Bob Phillips, Richard Meyer. Instructional book for string bass. String Orchestra Method/Supplement. Series: Sight-Read It for Strings. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(For Solo Double Bass). Composed by Jean-Sebastien Bach. Arranged by Richard Dubugnon. For double bass. Collection Richard Dubugnon. Intermediate - advanced. Full score - study. 7 pages. Duration 15 minutes. Gerard Billaudot Editeur #514-05539. Published by Gerard Billaudot Editeur

(A Guide to Left-Hand Technique). Bass. Softcover. Guitar tablature. 64 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Sequential Repertoire for Solo Strings or String Ensemble (Bass). Composed by Winifred Crock, William Dick, and Laurie Scott. Book; CD; Method/Instruction; String Orchestra Method/Supplement; Suzuki. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Music

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 Quartet

SKU: BT.YE0036

Composed by Joseph Lauber. Classical. Set (Score and Parts). Yorke Edition #YE0036. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0036).

Four movements, top part advanced. Several recordings and many broadcasts. Duration c.13'.

Programme Notes:

The Swiss composer Joseph Lauber was born at Ruswil near Lucerne in 1864. After studying with Heger in Zürich and Rheinberger in Munich, Lauber worked with Diémer and Massenet in Paris. With Massenet he learnt a great deal about orchestration, a subject that he subsequently taught until the end of his life at the Geneva conservatoire as well as piano and composition. He died in 1952.

Lauber's 193 catalogued works are many and varied. He wrote for all instruments and in every genre except oratorio and opera. Among his output areseveral works for double bass, most written for Prof. Hans Fryba, a personal friend with whom he worked as a double bass and piano recital duo. Fryba was one of the leading players in Europe in his day and was principal of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. First was Theme and Variations (1936-7) and a Rhapsodie with orchestra (1937). Three Walzes followed in 1939, a Gavotte and Gigue, a Sonata and then in 1943 Fantasie de Concert, written for the Geneva Competition. Four Caprices appeared in 1942, the same date as the Quartet for double basses which was dedicated to Fryba and written for the Berlin Philharmonic Double Bass Quartet, one of the first ever such ensembles to exist.

The Quartet for double basses was revived by Klaus Stoll in the 1970s for the Philharmonic Double Bass Quartet at that time to play. It was subsequently published in 1975 by Yorke Edition by kind permission of the composer's son Edmund Lauber.

Rodney Slatford 2004

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.

For Double Basses. By Charles K. Hoag. For Double Bass I, Double Bass II. Performance score. 19 pages. Duration 17:32. Published by Theodore Presser Company.

A Fun and Comprehensive Overview of Blues Bass Playing. By Matthew Liston. For Bass Guitar. Bass Guitar Method or Supplement. Blues. Book and CD. 128 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

(Heavy Metal Pyrotechnics Meet the Bass Guitar). Composed by David Overthrow. For Bass Guitar. Bass Guitar Method or Supplement; Book; CD; Method/Instruction. Shredding Series. Metal. Beginner. 64 pages. Published by Alfred Music