Double Bass Solo Techniques

Keith Hartley is the author of the well-known Double Bass Solo series, published by Oxford University Press. He is a double bassist in the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, London.

Whether you are a beginner wishing to learn new skills, a university player studying excerpts, or a professional preparing for orchestral auditions, this extremely useful volume will help you understand the marriage between technique and music making . . . Hartley has put together an excellent collection of music from the orchestral literature to demonstrate intermediate and advanced techniques used in music for the double bass. The excerpts are extremely efficient in conveying not only the proper procedure to execute the required skill but also the musical ideas behind them.

• Overture to Le nozze di Figaro ; Symphony No. 8 ; Aida ; Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter' (excerpt 1) ; 'Rejoice Greatly' from Messiah ; Symphony No. 39 (excerpt 1) ; Concerto pour la main gauche ; Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (Act II) ; Espana ; Symphony No. 2 ; La mer ; Variation VI from Variations on a Theme by J. Haydn ; Symphony No. 2 ; Overture to Der Freischutz ; Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 ; Il Barbiere di Siviglia (excerpt 1) ; Overture to Guillaume Tell ; 'Danse Espagnole' from Swan Lake ; 'Mars' from The Planets ; Alborada del gracioso ; La traviata (Act III) ; Octet in F (excerpt 1) ; Symphony No. 6 ; Falstaff (Act III) ; 'Scherzo' from A Midsummer Night's Dream ; Symphony No. 4 ; Lohengrin (Act II) ; Symphony No. 2 ; Scheherazade (excerpt 1) ; Symphony No. 9 ; Symphonie fantastique ; Boris Godunov (Act III) ; Sleeping Beauty (Act III) ; Symphony No. 35 'Haffner' ; Overture to Don Giovanni ; Overture to Il Barbiere di Siviglia (excerpt 2) ; Symphony No. 40 ; Symphony No. 88 ; La forza del destino ; Symphony No. 39 (excerpt 2) ; Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter' (excerpt 2) ; Serenade for Strings ; Piano Concerto No. 2 ; 'Fugue' from The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra ; Madama Butterfly (Act 1) ; Die Zauberflote ; Octet in F (excerpt 2) ; Symphony No. 7 ; 'Vorspiel' from Gotterdammerung ; Symphony No. 4 ; La valse ; Valse nobles et sentimentales ; Ma mere l'oye ; Piano Concerto in G ; 'Menuet' from Le tombeau de Couperin ; Concerto in A ; 'Prelude' from Agon ; L'enfant et les sortileges ; L'heure espagnole ; Drei Orchesterstucke ; Wozzeck (Act III) ; Katya Kabanova (Act III) ; Variation XI from Variaciones concertantes ; Adagio from Suite No. 3 ; Sinfonietta ; Scheherazade (excerpt 2) ; Symphony No. 4 ; Daphnis et Chloe ; The Nutcracker ; Violin Concerto No. 5 ; 'Romance' from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ; Symphony No. 2