sheet music for cello + db
Unless otherwise stated, the bass part is always notated in orchestral tuning.
Benedetto Marcello: „Sonate G-Moll“
A widely known baroque sonata. Principal part in the cello, the continuo has been arranged for the double bass to form an independent counterpart. - recorded on the cd "cantus iunctus ad tumultum"
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Order no. C 101: € 8
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Order no. C 101pdf: 4 €
Friedrich August Kummer: "Duett Nr. 2 Op. 22"
Originally a duo for two celli, whose first part has been slightly altered for the interplay with double bass, while the second part is tailor-made for the double bass. The two parts alternate with the themes. These are written in a diatonic nature so that they can be easily played by the double-bass in its original tuning. Special attention should be paid to the second movement: in the middle section the double bass may show its virtuosity in a major Cantilena. This Cantilena has so much romantic and emotional passion that it seems to have been composed especially for the double bass. - recorded on the cd "cantus iunctus ad tumultum"
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Order no. C 102: € 12
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Order no. C 102pdf: 6 €
Jean Barrière: "Sonate G-Dur"
The well-known cello duo, whose second part, arranged for the double bass, clearly keeps to the original. - recorded on the CD "cantus lunctus ad tumultum"
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Order no. C 103: € 8
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Order no. C 103pdf: 4 €
Charles Gounod: "Petit Scherzo"
The original double bass duo, arranged for cello and double bass with the two instruments constantly exchanging melody and accompaniment. - recorded on the CD "cantus lunctus ad tumultum"
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Order no. C 104: € 6
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Order no. C 104pdf: 3 €
Scott Joplin: "The Entertainer" (c+db)
The famous ragtime in an arrangement for cello and double bass. This piece is easily accessible for both instruments, yet quite challenging. - recorded on the CD "moderne / klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 105: € 7
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Order no. C 105pdf: 3,50 €
Alphons Czibulka: "Liebestraum nach dem Balle" (c+db)
A real Viennese waltz. Cello and contrabass alternate constantly in melody function and accompanying function. Also here it was paid attention to the fact that the voices do not become too demanding for both instruments.
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Order no. C 106: € 6
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Order no. C 106pdf: 3 €
Edie W. Cane: "My Blue Flame" (vcl+db)
A jazz piece for "swinging". It contains written-out parts with the cello and double bass alternating in function between melody and accompaniment, written-out improvisations along with accompaniment for both instruments, as well as a section with chord-symbols for pure improvisations. This last section may be skipped in case the performers do not think themselves capable of improvising. - recorded on ther CD "moderne / klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 107: € 7
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Order no. C 107pdf: 3,50 €
Andreas Wiebecke-Gottstein: "Dance Sacrale" (vcl+db)
A virtually canonical work inspired by middle-age folk music and bagpipes sounds. This piece is also available for violin and double bass and for 5 basses. - recorded on the CD "moderne /klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 108: € 6
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Order no. C 108pdf: 3 €
Frederic Chopin: "Trauermarsch" (c+db)
The well-known "Marche funèbre". Because of the chordal texture of the piano original this piece is difficult to arrange for two melodic instruments. This is why the individual parts are full of double-stops, which are, on the one hand difficult to play, on the other, however, give the piece its rich and warm character. With the middle-age Cantilena both instruments have the possibility of showing their virtuosity in the higher positions. recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 109: € 6
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Order no. C 109pdf: 3 €
Dimitri Schostakowitsch: "Kinderheft"
Arrangement of the simple but nevertheless very attractive piano work for cello and double bass. The result is a mixture of challenging sections and easily playable tunes. However, the piece is not meant to be played by beginners as is the case with the original. recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 110: € 15
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Order no. C 110pdf: 7,50 €
Mike Curtis: "Miserlou"
Klezmer music of the finest. Initiated by beating on body and fingerboard of both instruments, there sounds a known Klezmer melody. -recorded on the CD "moderne / klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 111: € 9
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Order no. C 111pdf: 4,50 €
Mike Curtis: "Rumanian Hora, Chusidl & Bulgar"
3 Klezmer dances. Both instruments alternate in soloing and accompanying. - recorded on the CD "modern / klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 112: € 9
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Order no. C 112pdf: 4,50 €
Mike Curtis: "Alcazaba"
A quite special Klezmer song. Free improvising seeming parts changes with affecting melodies. Both instruments are active soloing as well as accompanying. - recorded on the CD "moderne / klezmer / jazz
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Order no. C 113: € 9
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Mike Curtis: "Rebn's Tanz"
A small fine Klezmer song in which both instruments may tell equally her melodies. - recorded on the CD "modern / klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 114: € 9
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Mike Curtis: "Yoshke, Yoshke"
Lively Klezmer melodies which throw both instruments to themselves mutually. The players slide on the fingerboard and beat with the bow wood. - recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 115: € 9
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Order no. C 115pdf: 4,50 €
A. Malando: "Ole Guapa"
A known tango in an arrangement for cello and double bass. Entertaining and simultaneously demanding for the interpreters, in which an accompanying function befits the bass player mainly. - recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 116: € 9
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Order no. C 116pdf: 4,50 €
Francois Deviènne: "Duo Concertant G-Dur"
Typically classic enthusiasm honors this two-part duet. Originally written for two bassoons the work gets more transparency in the voices, which are almost independently held without exception, by the occupation with cello and double-bass. And it offers the typical difficulties of classical music to the players. - recorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 117: € 7
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Order no. C 117pdf: 3,50 €
Giorgio Antoniotti: "Sonata Nr. 9 c-Moll op. 1"
A 4-part baroque piece in which in the slow mouvements the typical general bass accompany befits the double-bass while he may "talk" with the cello in the fast mouvements as an equal partner. - recorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 118: € 8
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Order no. C 118pdf: 4 €
Mike Curtis: „Hey Judah“
A Klezmer song of the rather tragic kind. Also in this piece cello and double bass are equal partners and alternate in accompanying and melody plays. - recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 119: € 9
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Mike Curtis: „Boruch Ato Bo´ir“
A rather cheerful Klezmer dance with two equal voices and several different play technics like arco, pizzicato and col legno. - recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 120: € 9
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Astor Piazzolla: „Fünf Tangos“ (vcl+db)
"Tango Nuevo" of the well-known tango master Piazzolla in an arrangement for cello and double bass! The cello voice is mostly kept in quite high position Because of the extended harmonic of the tango music one will find very often double stops in both voices. The increase of difficulty is rewarded by the quite own romantic charm of this tango music, however. - recorded on the CD "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. C 121: € 12
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Order no. C 121pdf: 6 €
Edie W. Cane: „Schweizer-Käs´- Rock“
Thought as an encore and joke than an independent work: this piece is a kind of riddle where the audience shall recognize what this "rock", which is based on a simple blues cheme, has common with Swiss cheese.
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Order no. C 122: € 6
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Order no. C 122pdf: 3 €
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: „Kegelduette“
12 small pieces (in the original for two Bassetthorns) of cheerful contemplative character, which are surely an enrichment for the cello-bass literature For the better execution on the double-bass the pieces have been transposed from F Major to G major. Because the double-bass sounds an octave deeper than notated the original ratio of the two voices to each other was kept by putting up the double bass voice one octave. Often the double-bass has to be played in thumb position but the voice isn't extremely serious at this anyway and completes himself wonderfully with the cello voice. notated range: d - d" - recorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 123: € 16
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Order no. C 123pdf: 8 €
Jean Baptiste Bréval: „Sonate Nr. 5 G-Dur“
Every cellist will know it: The "difficult" sonata for Cello and Basso continuo, here though in an arrangement for Cello and double-bass. The continuo voice, which is to be played of the double-bass, was revised so that it not only became a accompanying voice but an equal counter voice. In the Rondo it even partly takes the cello voice and changes the cello to accompanying so that great demands are also put to the double bass player. A duet for being brilliant! - recorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 124: € 10
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Order no. C 124pdf: 5 €
Jacques Offenbach: „Duo Nr. 1 G-Dur Opus 50“
This duet sounds with cello and double-bass much more transparent than the original with two cellos, because the different tone colors of cello and double-bass help to distinguish the individual voices. The double-bass plays the second voice mostly in real sound, so that his voice is mostly noted an octave higher than the original and therefore is more demandingly, since he plays in thumb position without exception, too. - recorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 125: € 9
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Antonio Vivaldi: „Sonate e-Moll“
The continuo voice of this 4-part sonata has been arranged as an independent counter voice, in which the double-bass has to play much in higher positions. Only in the second part in which the cello voice is also quite deeply the double-bass voice gets by without exception in the bass key . Through this the part gets the humorous character of a gnomes dance. - recorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 126: € 13
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Order no. C 126pdf: 6,50 €
Benedetto Marcello: „Sonate a-Moll“
Also in this sonata the continuo voice of the double-bass has been altered to an independent counter voice, so that it becomes more interestingly and more demanding for the bass player, however, and the whole sonata gets the character of a duet. - recoorded on the CD "cello + bass duette"
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Order no. C 127: € 12
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Order no. C 127pdf: 6 €
Mike Curtis: „Andalucian Lily“
Imaginative Klezmer piece in the 3/4 metrum. Cello and double bass have to play relatively equivalent parts. - recorded in the cd „mike curtis cello bass duos“
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Order no. C 128: € 9
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Order no. C 128pdf: 4,50 €
Mike Curtis: „Street Song“
Virtuoso and at the same time melancholy Klezmer piece in 3/4 metrum. - recorded on the CD „mike curtis cello bass duos“
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Order no. C 129: € 9
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Order no. C 129pdf: 4,50 €
Mike Curtis: „Khyberian Catfit“
Quick, like a virtuoso, klezmer. With a lot of odd tacts and tact changes. Both instruments are equal partners. - recorded on the CD „mike curtis cello bass duos“
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Order no. C 130: € 9
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Order no. C 130pdf: 4,50 €
Mike Curtis: "Duo Suite on Mexican Themes" (Vcl+Kb)
Six mood pieces and dances in Mexican style. Virtuoso but anyway not excessive difficult. - recorded on the CD „cello bass duos - music by mike curtis“
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Order no. C 131: € 15
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Order no. C 131pdf: 7,50 €
Mike Curtis: „Sketches of China“ (vc+db)
After Mike Curtis has shown his folkloric qualities with his klezmer music (see there) and his Mexican Suite (see there), he shows with these 4 mood pieces that he can musically make himself understandably also in areas which are geographically much further away. - recorded on the cd "cello bass duos - music by mike curtis"
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Order no. C 132: € 15
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Order no. C 132pdf: 7,50 €
Mike Curtis: „Seven Jazz and Ethnik Duos“ (vc+db)
Seven pieces of different character - from blues about quick syncopic Latin-American rhythms up to Klezmer and in Chinese seeming music. Although, nevertheless, from the area of the light music taken, they are intellectual as well as technically from high claim. - recorded on the cd „cello bass duos - music by mike curtis“
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Order no. C 133: € 15
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Order no. C 133pdf: 7,50 €
Mike Curtis: „8 Jazz Duos“ (vc+db)
Swing, Latin and blues - with these concepts one can circumscribe the 8 pieces of this duet issue. - So entertaining this music may seem to the listener also - this music is rather demanding, nevertheless, in every respect, musical-spiritually as well as musical-technically. - recorded on the CD „cello bass duos - music by mike curtis“
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Order no. C 134: € 20
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Order no. C 134pdf: 10 €
The video shows the piece "Salamander Strut" from the "8 Jazz Duos".
Paul-Gerhard Wiebecke: „beatmusic“
Six pieces, each of which is complete in itself. They offer musical themes that are inspired from the beat, rock, funk and soul music of the 60s, 70s and 80s. In addition to these topics, they offer the performers per piece one or two solos. These solos are been advertised, but can be custom designed or improvised entirely from the players, depending on your mood, .The common musical themes are partially in four parts, frequently in three parts, which could make the games for both instrumentalists to the test. But here may be modified and simplified! Otherwise, the inclined instrumentalist etc. can also take notes in pitch, rhythm and dynamics as they are set in black and white. Both on the cello as well as the bass is here every note hard-won, tested and feasible on the respective instrument. - recorded on the cd “paul-gerhard wiebecke- beatmusik”
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Order no. C 135: € 18
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Order no. C 135pdf: 9 €
Gioacchino Rossini: "Duetto"
One of the most original works for cello and double bass. And in typical rossini style: Musically lightfooted, catchy lively and innocent. Both voices are equally demanding. This edition includes a reading score and for each instrument separate parts. The bass part is in the orchestra tuning.
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Order no. C 136: € 18
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Order no. C 136pdf: 9 €
Béla Bartók: "12 Duos" (vc+db)
The 12 pieces "Slovak Song", "Teasing Song", "Dance", "Cushion Dance", "Menuetto", "Ruthenian Song", "New Year´s Greeting", "Fairy Tale", "Rumanian song", "Hay-Harvest Song" "Wedding Song" and "Ruthenian Kolomejka" out of the "44 Duos for 2 Violins" in an arrangement for cello and double bass. The pieces are not arranged in a fixed order, but in a kind of "loose-leaf order", so that the sequence of the movements can be determined individually. Also the difficulty of the music pieces serves the entire width from easy to very hard. These arrangements are not identical to those for violin and bass. Unfortunately, the licence agreement existing until 2021 for the countries France (until 25.05.24), Spain and Colombia (until 31.12.2025), USA (until 31.12.2028) and Mexico (until 31.12.2045) could not be continued. Therefore, performances of these adaptations are not permitted in the named states until the mentioned dates. - recorded on the CD "moderne / klezmer / jazz"
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Order no. C 137: € 16
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Order no. C 137pdf: 8 €
Andreas Wiebecke-Gottstein (Arr.): Tarantella from Naples
A jaunty Italian folk song. The cello part is written so that it can also be played by a viola. If you have a guitarist or harpsichordist (or another player of a chordal instrument) with you, you can expand (and enrich) the piece to a trio. For this purpose, the chord symbols are written down in the score and in the cello part.
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Order no. C 138: € 12
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Order no. C 138pdf: 6 €
You can hear and see an example of this in this video: