sheet music for 4 db
Andreas Wiebecke-Gottstein: "Basspourri"
A potpourri of different melodies of the composer, which are rather jazzy. The first voice is sometimes very high and fast, the other three voices can be played by any advanced bassist.
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Order no. K 401: € 11
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Order no. K 401pdf: 5,50 €
Kurt Hessenberg: „Introduktion und Rondo“ op. 120
This about 7 minutes durable double bass quartet is the only work of the Frankfurt composer which devotes itself to the solo double bass. Composed in 1983, it became performed for the first time in 1984 by students of the college for music in Frankfurt a. M. (Germany). Sure it is one of the most difficult pieces of the double bass literature generally. It demands of all 4 musicians the biggest virtuosity. The music itself sticks to a freely treated tonality. The composer even in addition: " „ Of course I try to compose an autonomously music, however, I write the word with small letters". (In: Kurt Hessenberg - contributions to life and work) Who dares?
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Order no. K 402: € 14
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Order no. K 402pdf: 7 €
Scott Joplin: "The Entertainer"
The famous ragtime in a version for 4 double basses. The first and second double-bass almost always play in the treble clef, during double-bass 3 and 4 give the necessary ground.
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Order no. K 403: € 12
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Order no. K 403pdf: 6 €
Astor Piazzolla: „Tango Basso“
Heartbreakingly beautiful songs. In these songs there aren´t asked great virtuosi with fast fingers but the more expressive singers on their instruments. Most of the 5 pieces aren't very demandingly in technical sence but even more in musical sence.
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Order no. K 404: € 20
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Order no. K 404pdf: 10 €
Andreas Wiebecke-Gottstein: "Geburtstags-Ständchen"
This piece was written for the 50´s anniversary of Prof. Günter Klaus. The song "Happy Birthday to you" is initiated by a citation from the double bass concerto of Dittersdorf, before it sounds walzlike and in major and minor key. Then it is interrupted by "Hoch soll er leben" ("high he should live") and ends with festive Choral character. The whole lasts just three minutes and is held so that it can be played by the professional double bass player without bigger preparation. This little song is the opportunity to hand a musical bouquet to a colleague once a year. It is available in arrangements for 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 double basses.
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Order no. K 405: € 11
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Order no. K 405pdf: 5,50 €
Andreas Wiebecke-Gottstein: „A Little Bassmusic“
A not quite seriously meant collage of two famous melodies of W. A. Mozart and Joseph Haydn. The first double bass player has technically the most difficult part. But he has also an easy job in accompanying the others, too So everybody may play the leading role for some time without getting technically too difficult for the basses 3 and 4. Duration: approx. 6 minutes.
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Order no. K 406: € 12
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Order no. K 406pdf: 6 €
Th. A. Findeisen: „Quartettsuite für 4 Celli od. 4 Kontrabässe“
This, finally, again available(obtainable) work is a highlight in musicallity, but also in virtuosity. Findeisen is here unusual kontrapunktal polyphonic without denying his romantic roots. The first mouvement (Adagio) is a serious, almost quite baroque seeming meditation. The following menuet is cheerful and is followed by an again serious and strictly polyphonic held mouvement (andante moderato) in which the first bass must master extremely high positions. The last mouvement (humoreske) however is witty and elegant again.
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Order no. K 407: € 20
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Astor Piazzolla: „Libertango“
This is certainly one of the most famous tangos by Piazzolla, here in an arrangement for 4 double basses of the Argentinean bassist Andrés Martin, who edited this piece as a duo for double bass and piano, bass and harp and double bass and guitar. The latter version can be admired in an impressive video on YouTube on the Internet. The note sheets of these versions are all available here at the PRObass music publisher.
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Order no. K 408: € 20
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G. H. Matos Rodriguez: „La Cumparsita“ for 4 db
This tango, which is considered one of the original tangos - the tango of all tangos ("el tango de los tangos"), was composed in 1917 by the Uruguayan youth Rodriguez as a march (la cumparsita, Spanish = "small street parade"), but was reworked into a tango in the same year by the Argentine tango musician Roberto Firpo. The present arrangement for 4 double basses is designed in such a way that the first double bass plays in the high register throughout and the voice becomes lower and lower as the bass numbers descend. The fourth double bass is then notated in bass clef throughout.
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Order no. K 409: € 16
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Order no. K 409pdf: 8 €
Andreas Bennetzen: “On One for All”
Originally written as a double bass orchestra piece On One for All was premiered in Odense, for Bassissimo 2005. "I was pretty new at composing back then", the danish composer says, "but it came out ok after all." It has an improvisation part and some simple bass percussion.
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Order no. A 402: € 22
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Andreas Bennetzen: “Cumbassia”
"This is the first time I have tried to make rewrite one of my Andy Benz pieces for double bass quartet. The music I make under the alias Andy Benz originates from live-looping. That is the layering of musical loops live. Sort of like a one-man bass band. The music is inspired by traditional Cumbia from Colombia and its electronic brother digital cumbia. Difficulty: Medium easy
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Mike Curtis: „Tango La Invitatión“
The original from Mike Curtis is written for 4 wood players plus two percussion players. The editor reworked the voices of the woods for 4 double basses and wrote an own voice for a fifth double bass, in which the double bass is used purely percussiv. By omitting the fifth double bass, one can play the piece also still as quartett. After a short introduction the first tango theme is presented. An interlude leads up to a second theme in the 6/4-measure, which is then repeated with bluesy company, so that 4/4 and 6/4-measure overlay. A cadence-like section follows which leads up to the final tango part.
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Order no. K 508: € 15
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Order no. K 508pdf: 7,50 €