Double Bass Solo Techniques combines the dual function of a technique book and a collection of orchestral excerpts. The techniques are introduced in a logical order, and each is accompanied by a short explanatory note, providing technical advice and tips on performance. The repertoire has been carefully selected to showcase the techniques in their real musical context, and the pieces cover all major styles and genres. Ideal as preparation for auditions and exams, the book is suitable for students of grades 6-8+.

Contents:

• Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro
• Schubert: Symphony No. 8
• Verdi: Aida
• Mozart: Symphony No. 41 Jupiter (excerpt 1)
• Handel: Rejoice Greatly from Messiah
• Mozart: Symphony No. 39 (excerpt 1)
• Ravel: Concerto pour la main gauche
• Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nrnberg (Act II)
• Chabrier: Espaa
• Borodin: Symphony No. 2
• Debussy: La mer
• Brahms: Variation VI from Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn
• Brahms: Symphony No. 2
• Weber: Overture to Der Freischtz
• J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
• Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (excerpt 1)
• Rossini: Overture to Guillaume Tell
• Tchaikovsky: Danse Espagnole from Swan Lake
• Holst: Mars from The Planets
• Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
• Verdi: La traviata (Act III)
• Schubert: Octet in F (excerpt 1)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
• Verdi: Falstaff (Act III)
• Mendelssohn: Scherzo from A Midsummer Nights Dream
• Brahms: Symphony No. 4
• Wagner: Lohengrin (Act II)
• Mahler: Symphony No. 2
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (excerpt 1)
• Schubert: Symphony No. 9
• Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
• Musorgsky: Boris Godunov (Act III)
• Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Act III)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 35 Haffner
• Mozart: Overture to Don Giovanni
• Rossini: Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia (excerpt 2)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 40
• Haydn: Symphony No. 88
• Verdi: La forza del destino
• Mozart: Symphony No. 39 (excerpt 2)
• Mozart: Symphony No. 41 Jupiter (excerpt 2)
• Dvorak: Serenade for Strings
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2
• Britten: Fugue from The Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
• Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Act 1)
• Mozart: Die Zauberflte
• Schubert: Octet in F (excerpt 2)
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
• Wagner: Vorspiel from Gtterdmmerung
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
• Ravel: La valse
• Ravel: Valse nobles et sentimentales
• Ravel: Ma mre loye
• Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
• Ravel: Menuet from Le tombeau de Couperin
• Dragonetti: Concerto in A
• Stravinsky: Prelude from Agon
• Ravel: Lenfant et les sortilges
• Ravel: Lheure espagnole
• Berg: Drei Orchesterstcke
• Berg: Wozzeck (Act III)
• Janacek: Katya Kabanova (Act III)
• Ginastera: Variation XI from Variaciones concertantes
• J. S. Bach: Adagio from Suite No. 3
• Janacek: Sinfonietta
• Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (excerpt 2)
• Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
• Ravel: Daphnis et Chlo
• Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
• Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5
• Mozart: Romance from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 2