Here are 50 easy-to-intermediate short pieces for double bass and piano, with five additional bonus pieces for two double basses and piano. These musically satisfying little pieces function as etudes for the instrument.
Jacques Offenbach, better known for his operettas, was known in his youth as “the Paganini of the cello.” Included in this volume are six attractive duets, of modest difficulty. The companion CD has tracks with both duet parts isolated, ideal for individual practice.
(Music Minus One). Performed by Geoffrey Applegate, violin Accompaniment: Stuttgart Festival Orchestra Conductor: Emil Kahn A favorite of audiences and performers, this concerto glows with exuberance and solid structural beauty. You play either the first or second part; or get together with a friend for a thrilling duet concerto experience with full orchestra! Contains a printed solo part, newly engraved and printed on beautiful acid-free ivory paper; and online recordings of the complete concerto performed with both solo violins, then again in three accompaniment versions: minus the first violin; minus the second violin; and minus both violins; and the accompaniments given again at -20% speed for practice purposes. The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
Intermediate violin pieces with suggestions for practice. Foreword by Shinichi Suzuki. Packaged with 2 CDs. Piano accompaniment is available as EP11291A. This 3-volume series is aimed at level 4-7 of the Suzuki Method but can also be used by any student or pupil, young or old! Volume 1 focuses on helping the student master movements from violin concertos by J.S. Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and Friedrich Seitz. For a little light relief, the book also includes a number of "Fiddle Tunes" and easier, short arrangements by Schubert and Humperdinck. All pieces are accompanied by systematic preliminary exercises, practice tips and CDs with different exercise tempo.
The cream of Irish traditional music is presented in three core collections of essential session tunes. Each book includes 110 of the most popular and enduring session tunes in Ireland and around the world. Join in wherever you go with these collections of jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas, slides, airs and more. All the books feature accurate transcriptions in an easy-to-read format, and include guitar chords.
(Music Minus One). This book/CD pack features a CD with the complete performance of Lalo's Cello Concerto written in 1876 in digital stereo, plus a second digital stereo version of the concerto minus the soloist, indexed for ease of practice and performance. It also includes an authoritative performance edition of the solo part, newly engraved and printed on high-quality ivory paper.
Classical music in Spain underwent a resurgence in the mid-nineteeth century, and the nationalistic emphasis of the Romantic era certainly provided fertile ground for the use of the unique sounds of the Iberian Peninsula. In the realm of violin music, Pablo de Sarasate's compositions revealed Romantic Spain to much of the world and were inspirations for many other composers' violin works in the same vein. Eric Wen's compilation "The Spanish Album" is a great representative survey of this trend. His foreword provides a lively and informative background for the pieces and composers in the book.