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Double bass solo Cinquante mélodies adaptées pour contrebasse
Sélectionnées et adaptées par Keith Hartley
Titres :
Half position (or first degree)
- The great gate of Kiev (Mussorgsky)
- Tortues (Le Carnaval des Animaux) (Saint-Saëns)
- Waltz (Roses from the South op.388) (J. Strauss)
- Canon on Frère Jacques (Symphony 1) (Mahler)
- The merry peasant (Album for the young) (Schumann)
- Entr'acte (Incidental music to Rosamunde) (Schubert)
First position (or second degree)
- Ode to joy (Symphony 9 The Choral) (Beethoven)
- Drink to me only (English air)
- Pilgrims'March (Symphony 4 The Italian) (Mendelssohn)
- Minuet (12 duets for 2 basset horns K.487) (Mozart)
- Minuet (Aires and dances) (J. Eccles)
- The trout (piano quintet op.114) (Schubert)
Scales and arpeggios (up to 2 1/2 position)
Second position (or third degree)
- Andante cantabile (string quartet 1) (Tchaikovsky)
- Lullaby (op.49 No.4) (Brahms)
- March (Judas Maccabaeus) (Handel)
- Now is the month of mayong (Morley)
- Old french song (Album from the young) (Tchaikovsky)
- Berceuse (Dolly suite op.56) (Fauré)
2 1/2 position (or fourth degree)
- Finlandia op.26 No.7 (Sibelius)
- The Harmonious Blacksmith (Hapsichord suite 5 in E) (Handel)
Third position (or fifth degree)
- My heart ever faithful (Cantata 68) (J.S. Bach)
- Largo (Symphony 9 "from the New World") (Dvorak)
- March (Scipio) (Handel)
- Andantino (Symphony 4) (Tchaikovsky)
- Andante (Rococo variations op.33) (Tchaikovsky)
- Jupiter (The Planets) (Holst)
- The gift to be simple (Shaker song)
- Where'er you walk (Handel)
- Jesu, Joy of Man's desiring (J.S. Bach)
3 1/2 position (or sixth degree)
- Greensleeves (trad. english)
- When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas) (Purcell)
- Andante (trumpet concerto) (Haydn)
- Minuet (L'Arlésienne suite 2) (Bizet)
Fourth position (or seventh degree)
- Sheep may safely graze (Cantata 208) (J.S. Bach)
- Poème (for violin and orchestra) (Chausson)
- Minuet (Beethoven)
- Rondo all'ongarese (piano trio in G) (Haydn)
Scales and arpeggios (up to sixth position)
Fifth position (or eighth degree)
- Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) (Mascagni)
- Toreador's song (Carmen) (Bizet)
- St. Anthony Chorale (Haydn variations) (Brahms)
- Nocturne (A midsummer night's dream) (Mendelssohn)
- Minuet (The Anna Magdalena Notebook) (J.S. Bach)
5 1/2 position (or ninth degree)
- Pavane (op.50) (Fauré)
- Valse (Coppélia) (Delibes)
Sixth position and above (or tenth degree)
- Allegro vivace (Overture "Rosamunde") (Schubert)
- Entr'acte No.2 (Carmen) (Bizet)
- Agnus Dei (Requiem) (Verdi)
- Prelude (Op.28 No.20) (Chopin)
- Praeludium after Pugnani (Kreisler)
- Sonatina (Beethoven)