(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.

by William Bay. For string bass. solos. Fun With. Folk. Level: Beginning. Book. Size 8.5x11. 32 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

(A Comprehensive Curriculum for Use During Fundamentals Time). Composed by Scott Rush. For double bass. Habits of a Successful Musician. Music Education - Band Method. Method book. 72 pages. Published by GIA Publications

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.

Beginning Fiddling Lessons for String Classes or Individual Learners. By Doris Gazda; Janet Farrar-Royce; Jay Ungar; Molly Mason. For Double Bass. Classical. Student Book. 16 pages. Published by Carl Fischer.

Eb or Bb Bass. De Haske Play-Along Book. Size 9x12 inches. 48 pages. Published by Anglo Music.

By Allen, Gillespie, Hayes. Arranged by John Higgins. Essential Elements String Method. Size 9x12 inches. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.

Double Bass

SKU: BT.YE0051

Composed by Ellis. Book Only. Yorke Edition #YE0051. Published by Yorke Edition (BT.YE0051).

Set work for Isle of Man 1978, Munich 1985 and many other international competitions. Explores most of what the bass is normally required to do: useful recital solo, much performed and broadcast. Duration c.5'30. Opus 42. AMEB(Australian Syllabus) 2004

Grade: 8.

By Allen, Gillespie, Hayes. Arranged by John Higgins. Essential Elements String Method. Size 9x12 inches. 48 pages. Published by Hal Leonard.