Publisher: Schott Music
Editor: Mohrs, Charlotte
Level: Very Easy

The ‘Easy Concert Pieces’ series presents a varied selection of easy concert pieces for double bass and piano from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods through to the modern era.

Book 1 contains pieces in half and first position. Simple techniques such as portato, staccato and legato bowing are introduced along with pizzicato, using rudimentary dynamics ranging from piano to forte, crescendo and decrescendo and simple phrasing. The pieces selected here are varied in character with memorable tunes, a few different time signatures and simple rhythms.

• Luis de Milán (ca. 1500-1561): Pavane
• Cesare Negri (ca. 1535-1604): Spagnoletto
• Valentin Haussmann (ca. 1560-1614): Alla Tedesca
• John Eccles (1668-1735): Menuett
• Christoph Graupner (1683-1760): Bourrée
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Spring from “The Four Seasons"
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Menuett
• Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747-1800): The Moon Has Risen
• Giuseppe Tommaso Giordani (1751-1798): Minuetto
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Allegro
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Ode to Joy from Symphony No. 9
• Giovanni Bottesini (1821-1889): Allegretto
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1879): Lullaby
• Alexander Borodin (1833-1887): Prince Igor
• Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky (1840-1893): Swan Lake
• Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904): Largo, from Symphony No. 9  ”From the New World”
• Gustav Mahler (1869-1911): Theme from Symphony No. 1
• Friedrich Radermacher (*1924): A Serious Matter
• Friedrich Radermacher (*1924): All Is Well That Ends Well!
• Hermann Regner (1928-2008): Recitativo and Cellar Aria
• Hermann Regner: What a Stress!
• Teppo Hauta-aho (*1941): The Singing Hippo
• Frank Wunsch (*1945): Dorian Blue
• Marianne Magolt (*1953): A Little March

• Easy Concert Pieces (double bass and piano) Book 1
• Easy Concert Pieces (double bass and piano) Book 2
• Easy Concert Pieces (double bass and piano) Book 3