sheet music for violin + db
Unless otherwise stated, the bass part is always notated in orchestral tuning.
Edie W. Cane: „Schweizer-Käs´- Rock“ (vle+db)
Thought more as encore and joke than independent musical work, this piece is a guessing game with which the audience should recognise what this "rock", based on the easy bluescheme, has commonly with Swiss cheese.
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Order no. V 101: € 6
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Order no. V 101pdf: 3 €
Andreas Wiebecke-Gottstein: „Dance Sacrale“ (vle+db)
A virtually canonically piece which was inspired by medieval folk music and bagpipe sounds. Also available for cello and double bass and 5 basses. In the version for cello and bass you can hear it on the cd "moderne/klezmer/jazz"
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Order no. V 102: € 6
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Order no. V 102pdf: 3 €
W. A. Mozart: Sonate Nr. 1
A sonata for violin and double bass by Mozart? So it is! This sonata is build by the mouvements No 1, 3, 2 and 4 out of the 12 "Kegelduette" for two bassetthorns. This is quite good for the concert practise because 4 mouvements of Mozart as a sonata in a concert are better than to confrontate the audience with all 12 pieces what can be quite rather long-winded, although it is all together a rather pleasant music, just Mozart. But in a well measured serving of 4 mouvements it is a real enrichment of the double bass literature which is not undemanding for the bassist also at all, because many parts of the bass stay in the violin system, while for the violinist it is more like a pleasant practise. The "Kegelduette" are also available in a complete arrangement for cello und bass and can be heard on the CD "cello bass duette".
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Order no. V 103: € 10
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Order no. V 103pdf: 5 €
W. A. Mozart: Sonate Nr. 2
A sonata for violin and double bass by Mozart? So it is! This sonata is build by the mouvements No 6, 7, 9 and 12 out of the 12 "Kegelduette" for two bassetthorns. This is quite good for the concert practise because 4 mouvements of Mozart as a sonata in a concert are better than to confrontate the audience with all 12 pieces what can be quite rather long-winded, although it is all together a rather pleasant music, just Mozart. But in a well measured serving of 4 mouvements it is a real enrichment of the double bass literature which is not undemanding for the bassist also at all, because many parts of the bass stay in the violin system, while for the violinist it is more like a pleasant practise. The "Kegelduette" are also available in a complete arrangement for cello und bass and can be heard on the CD "cello bass duette".
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Order no. V 104: € 10
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Order no. V 104pdf: 5 €
W. A. Mozart: Sonate Nr. 3
A sonata for violin and double bass by Mozart? So it is! This sonata is build by the mouvements No 10, 5, 11 and 8 out of the 12 "Kegelduette" for two bassetthorns. This is quite good for the concert practise because 4 mouvements of Mozart as a sonata in a concert are better than to confrontate the audience with all 12 pieces what can be quite rather long-winded, although it is all together a rather pleasant music, just Mozart. But in a well measured serving of 4 mouvements it is a real enrichment of the double bass literature which is not undemanding for the bassist also at all, because many parts of the bass stay in the violin system, while for the violinist it is more like a pleasant practise. The "Kegelduette" are also available in a complete arrangement for cello und bass and can be heard on the CD "cello bass duette".
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Order no. V 105: € 10
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Order no. V 105pdf: 5 €
Johann Sebastian Bach: “5 zweistimmige Inventionen”
The Inventions No. 1, 6, 9, 10 and 11. The violin voice playes the upper voice of the original, the second voice is transposed here and there an octave upwards by which the distance to the violin reduces a bit and the voice does not become thus deep sounding. Besides, one comes only seldom into thumb position, so that the pieces are to be mastered also by not yet so far advanced bassists. Nevertheless, besides, the music itself remains rather demanding.
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Order no. V 106: € 10
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Order no. V 106pdf: 5 €
Astor Piazzolla: „Fünf Tangos“ (vle+db)
This "Tango Nuevo pieces of the known tango master Piazzolla are based on the arrangement for cello and bass (see there). Because of the enlarged harmony of the tango music it was very often necessary to use double stops in both voices. Nevertheless, the more in difficulty is recompensed by the quite own romantic charm of this tango music. The arrangement for cello and bass is recorded on the cd "himmelhoch jauchzend - zu tode betruebt"
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Order no. V 107: € 12
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Order no. V 107pdf: 6 €
Perfect recordings of the tangos can be admired on YouTube by the solo bassist of the Vienna Philharmonic Ödön Racz and the concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic Noah Bendix-Balgley:
Mike Curtis: „Seven Jazz and Ethnik Duos“ (vle+db)
Seven pieces of different character - from blues about quick synkopique 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. The pieces have been also arranged for cello and bass und have been rcorded on the cd „cello bass duos - music by mike curtis“.
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Order no. V 108: € 18
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Order no. V 108pdf: 9 €
Mike Curtis: „Duo Suite on Mexican Themes“ (vle+db)
Six character plays and dances in the Mexican style. Virtuoso but, however, not excessively diffiocult. There is also a version for cello and bass, whitch is recorded on the cd "mike curtis - cello bass duos"
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Order no. V 109: € 15
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Order no. V 109pdf: 7,50 €
Th. A. Findeisen: „Romantische Suite“ op. 10
The „romantic suite“ for violin and bass of the well known bass pedagogue und virtuosi exists of 4 mouvements to which Findeisen has given in each case own romantic titles: 1. „In the birch wood“, 2. „Night march of the gnomes“, 3. „Under the hazel bush“ and 4. "Erlauscht" (in the sense of "heard". In combination with the tempo entries one can fancy quite well which traits to the mouvements belong. The voices are rather demanding for both instruments. The bass voice is written down one tone deeper for the bass in solo pitch.
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Order no. V 110: € 15
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Order no. V 110pdf: 7,50 €
Béla Bartók: “12 Duos für Violine und Kontrabass” (vle+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 violin 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 cello and bass, which have been recorded on the cd “moderne/klezmer/jazz”. 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.
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Order no. V 111: € 16
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Order no. V 111pdf: 8 €
Andreas Bennetzen: “Stille” (quiet)
"A short duet for violin and bass with acting. Here I tried to make a piece that in music, and a few sounds, tells the story about two musicians making a new piece together. They are trying to find the right track and they argue over in which direction to go with the music. I think the ending is good." Difficulty: medium
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Order no. V 112: € 16
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Order no. V 112pdf: 8 €
There is a recording on YouTube with the composer on bass and Xavi García Morató on violin:
Daniel Chiva Sanz: „Remembrance“
Remembrance is a Violin and Double Bass duet that attempt to evoke in the listener the memory of different movies. There are passages that take you from action movies to romance. Both instruments participate in melodic development. The edition consists of one part each for violin and double bass, each with 4 pages that just fit on a music stand so that the piece can be played without leafing through. In addition, there are rehearsal parts for each instrument with a reduced stave of the other instrument with 7 and 8 pages respectively. The double bass parts are always written in solo tuning.
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Order no. V 113: € 18
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Order no. V 113pdf: 9 €