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Lay Me Down
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3
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Double Bass
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Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Nor
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Alex Nunes Rodrigues
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1226768 Composed by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. Arranged by Alex Nunes Rodrigu...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1226768 Composed by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. Arranged by Alex Nunes Rodrigues. Traditional. Individual part. 1 pages. Alex Rodrigues #822771. Published by Alex Rodrigues (A0.1226768). This sheet music features one of the most popular sports songs in the United States, Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, the song has become a baseball anthem and is frequently sung during the seventh inning stretch of Major League Baseball games. This sheet music allows musicians of various levels to play and sing this iconic song. With its simple melody and memorable lyrics, Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a fun and exciting song that appeals to people of all ages.
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Double Bass
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Folkloric/Traditional
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Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Nor
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Alex Nunes Rodrigues
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Alex Rodrigues
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1226770 Composed by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. Arranged by Alex Nunes Rodrigu...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1226770 Composed by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. Arranged by Alex Nunes Rodrigues. Traditional. Individual part. 1 pages. Alex Rodrigues #822773. Published by Alex Rodrigues (A0.1226770). This sheet music features one of the most popular sports songs in the United States, Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Written in 1908 by Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer, the song has become a baseball anthem and is frequently sung during the seventh inning stretch of Major League Baseball games. This sheet music allows musicians of various levels to play and sing this iconic song. With its simple melody and memorable lyrics, Take Me Out to the Ball Game is a fun and exciting song that appeals to people of all ages.
$4.99
Howl's Moving Castle - Theme: The Merry-Go-Round of Life
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Double Bass
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INTERMEDIATE
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Film/TV
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Joe Hisaishi
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Le Château ambulant
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Tomplay
Download this music sheet with backing tracks recorded by professional musicians. Free Unlimited Access to 80,000 music sheets for 14 days (cancel anytime). Pla...
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Download this music sheet with backing tracks recorded by professional musicians. Free Unlimited Access to 80,000 music sheets for 14 days (cancel anytime). Play online and print
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Howl's Moving Castle - Theme: The Merry-Go-Round of Life (Quartet)
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Double Bass
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INTERMEDIATE
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Film/TV
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Joe Hisaishi
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Le Château ambulant
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Tomplay
Download this music sheet with backing tracks recorded by professional musicians. Free Unlimited Access to 80,000 music sheets for 14 days (cancel anytime). Pla...
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Download this music sheet with backing tracks recorded by professional musicians. Free Unlimited Access to 80,000 music sheets for 14 days (cancel anytime). Play online and print
5.99€
All Of Me
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Double Bass
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John Legend
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Valdir Maia
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All Of Me
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Valdir Maia
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1159896 By John Legend. By John Stephens and Toby Gad. Arranged by Valdir Maia. Contemp...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1159896 By John Legend. By John Stephens and Toby Gad. Arranged by Valdir Maia. Contemporary,Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Standards,Wedding. Individual part. 3 pages. Valdir Maia #760158. Published by Valdir Maia (A0.1159896). Fans of John Legend's emotive ballad 'All of Me' can now easily learn to play with this double bass easy sheet music. Whether you're just starting out on double bass or are a seasoned musician, this easy double bass sheet music is a great way to bring the timeless hit to life. Â
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All Of Me
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Double Bass
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John Legend
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Valdir Maia
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All Of Me
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Valdir Maia
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1159898 By John Legend. By John Stephens and Toby Gad. Arranged by Valdir Maia. Contemp...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1159898 By John Legend. By John Stephens and Toby Gad. Arranged by Valdir Maia. Contemporary,Pop,Singer/Songwriter,Standards,Wedding. Individual part. 3 pages. Valdir Maia #760161. Published by Valdir Maia (A0.1159898). Fans of John Legend's emotive ballad 'All of Me' can now easily learn to play with this double bass easy sheet music with chords. Whether you're just starting out on double bass or are a seasoned musician, this easy double bass sheet music with chords is a great way to bring the timeless hit to life. Â
$9.99
Fugue: "Wear Pearls and Smile" (A Pairing with Beethoven's Symphony #2) - Contrabass
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Double Bass
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Benjamin Harry Sajo
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Fugue: "Wear Pearls and Smile"
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Benjamin Sajo
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018941 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 4 ...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018941 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 4 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6072983. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018941). Fugue: Wear Pearls and Smile is, on the outset, a fast, rambunctious adventure for many voices playing at the same time. It was conceived as a pairing for the equally vivacious second symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven–his 250th birthday is this year–but can stand on its own as one of my hardest, most challenging works to cook up.This piece is dedicated to those forced to appear positive when internally they’re falling apart. The title is inspired by a quote that’s been with me for a while, Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile? by Lynn Hecht Schafren, the celebrated American jurist famous for campaigning for gender equity in courts. I’m taking the quote out of its initial context, but the power of that quote, for me, exemplifies how hard it is to maintain a sense of emotional decorum and dignity when you’re authentically a hot mess. And what’s more of a musical hot mess than a fugue?There are two realities to this piece. I’ll quote Dmitri Shostakovich, from his autobiography: The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, […] It’s as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, ‘Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing,’ and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering ‘Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing.’ On the one hand, it is insincere happiness, cloying perhaps. But the other truth, I’ll quote Oscar Hammerstein II, from The King and I: While shivering in my shoes / I strike a careless pose / And whistle a happy tune / And no one ever knows, / I'm afraid. I forced myself, against all impulses of my current being, to forge happiness. This piece, with its origin being a mental puzzle (fugues are puzzles), it became a construct where I could lift myself up and regain a sense of purpose. Therefore, it is invented–out of a literal need to survive–pure, genuine happiness.Future Performances: If you are interested in performing this work, please e-mail me.ABOUT THE COMPOSER: Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings , with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.
$3.50
Something Just Like This
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Double Bass
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Pop music
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The Chainsmokers
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Jarett LeVan
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Something Just Like This
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Jarett LeVan
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SheetMusicPlus
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816312 By The Chainsmokers. By Andrew Taggart, Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckla...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.816312 By The Chainsmokers. By Andrew Taggart, Chris Martin, Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, and Will Champion. Arranged by Jarett LeVan. Pop. Individual part. 2 pages. Jarett LeVan #4331857. Published by Jarett LeVan (A0.816312). Something Just Like This by Coldplay and the Chainsmokers for Double Bass. Just over three minutes long. Contact me at jarett.levan@gmail.com if you have any questions, comments or concerns. .
$4.99
Kommos (Lamentation) / "When the World Moved On" - Contrabass
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Double Bass
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INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
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Contemporary
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Benjamin Harry Sajo
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Kommos
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Benjamin Sajo
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SheetMusicPlus
Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018960 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 ...
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Double Bass,String Bass Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1018960 Composed by Benjamin Harry Sajo. 20th Century,Contemporary. Individual part. 2 pages. Benjamin Sajo #6078717. Published by Benjamin Sajo (A0.1018960). Programme Notes: This composition was written to be considered for pairing alongside Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony #3, the Eroica, but can stand on its own virtues as an intense and slow meditation on heroism. The music is like a boiling pot on the stove that’s just began to overflow its bubbles. The first part of the title, kommos, is a Classical Greek term from Attic dramaturgy, literally meaning striking but specifically referring to beating oneself up during lamentation--ripping at the hair, gouging out the eyes--like Oedipus--slapping the forehead, and other acts amid moments of extreme emotional turmoil. For example, from Aeschylus's play Agamemnon, a character bewails: Apollo, Apollo! God of the Ways, my destroyer! For you have destroyed me-and utterly [...]What is this fresh woe [...]what monstrous, monstrous horror, beyond love's enduring, beyond all remedy? And help stands far away! We can easily imagine physical accompaniment to the script; rather than bottling up the pain, the hero lets it all explosively come out.  The second part of the title, When the world moved on, is an epigraph taken from American author Stephen King’s The Dark Tower epic. The primary setting of the novel, a world similar in many ways to our own, is experiencing a dark age where the glorious past is all but a distant memory and all good things are referred to wistfully as occurring, When the world moved on. Yet, the main protagonist, Roland, the last gunslinger, emphasizes that it is not just a figure of speech, but the literal distances between destinations have increased, the positions of the stars have changed, as well as the occurrence of other unnatural phenomena. The world has become a gulf of isolation from all corners. Taken together, this piece is a lamentation for when the world moved on. Truly completed on Yom Kippur during the Covid-19 Pandemic, being unable to fast or go to synagogue, this is my atonement.About the Composer: Benjamin Sajo (b. 1988) is a Canadian composer of contemporary classical music, as well as an educator. Since developing a fiercely independent creative voice upon the completion of his studies at Western (2010) and McGill Universities (2013), he continues to find inspiration from the intersection of mythology, art, and nature upon the contemporary human experience. In 2019, he released his premiere album of original music, The Great War Sextet: Canadian War Poetry with Trombone & Strings, with support from the Ontario Arts Council. He is a member of SOCAN and the League of Canadian Composers.
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