CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR DOUBLE BASS
This page explores diverse contemporary double bass music, encompassing modern bass compositions for solo performance, 20th and 21st-century repertoire, and chamber music. It highlights experimental pieces, including vocal music with double bass, showcasing works by Lior Navok.
UNACCOMPANIED DOUBLE BASS
Big Mouse
3' 30" | double bass solo
This section presents contemporary solo double bass music, featuring diverse modern solo bass compositions and cutting-edge solo double bass repertoire. It highlights innovative, avant-garde, and progressive solo bass pieces, showcasing unique performances, including works by Lior Navok.
CHAMBER MUSIC WITH DOUBLE BASS
for chamber ensemble
15' | recorders (3), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, percussion, violin, double bass
This section explores contemporary chamber music with double bass, featuring diverse modern chamber ensemble pieces and new chamber music repertoire. It highlights cutting-edge, avant-garde, and progressive works, including innovative double bass chamber scores by Lior Navok.
Three Episodes for Chamber Ensemble
for chamber ensemble
12' | flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion (1), piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass
VOCAL MUSIC WITH DOUBLE BASS
This section explores contemporary vocal music with double bass, featuring diverse modern vocal compositions and cutting-edge vocal repertoire for voice and double bass. It highlights avant-garde and progressive vocal pieces, including original works by Lior Navok.
STAGE MUSIC WITH DOUBLE BASS
for narrator and ensemble
31' | actress, violins (2), viola, cello double bass and piano
for actress and chamber ensemble / chamber orchestra
36' | actress, flute / piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string quintet
OR
actress, flute / piccolo, clarinet, percussion (1), two pianos and string section
Sheet Music for Double Bass:
List of Key 20th–21st Century Double Bass Repertoire
Solo Double Bass
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Luciano Berio – Sequenza XIVb – solo double bass – 2002
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Elliott Carter – Figment III – solo double bass – 2007
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György Ligeti – Sonata for Solo Double Bass – solo double bass – 1994
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John Cage – Ryoanji – solo double bass – 1983-85
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Toru Takemitsu – Voice – solo double bass – 1973
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Krzysztof Penderecki – Capriccio – solo double bass – 1987
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Bertram Turetzky – The Contemporary Contrabass – solo double bass – 1974
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Gérard Grisey – Stèle – solo double bass – 1995
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Brian Ferneyhough – Trittico per G.S. – solo double bass – 1989
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Kaija Saariaho – Folia – solo double bass – 1995
Double Bass Chamber Works
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George Crumb – Madrigals, Book II – double bass and soprano – 1965
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Karlheinz Stockhausen – Tierkreis – double bass and piano – 1974-75
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Harrison Birtwistle – Pulse Shadows – double bass and ensemble – 1989-1996
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Tania León – Axon – double bass and ensemble – 2001
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Steve Reich – Electric Counterpoint (bass version) – double bass and tape – 1987
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Tristan Murail – Tellur – double bass and electronics – 1977
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Helmut Lachenmann – Toccatina – double bass and ensemble – 1986
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Gérard Grisey – Anubis-Nout – double bass and ensemble – 1983
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Joëlle Léandre – Taxi – solo double bass – 1987
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Mark Applebaum – Straitjacket – double bass and electronics – 2000
Double Bass Concertos
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Alfred Schnittke – Double Bass Concerto – double bass and orchestra – 1985
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Krzysztof Penderecki – Double Bass Concerto – double bass and orchestra – 1982
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James MacMillan – Double Bass Concerto – double bass and orchestra – 2013
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John Adams – The Dharma at Big Sur (double bass version) – double bass and orchestra – 2003
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Kaija Saariaho – Notes on Light (double bass version) – double bass and orchestra – 2007
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Tan Dun – Water Concerto – double bass and orchestra – 1998
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Chen Yi – Percussion Concerto (double bass version) – double bass and orchestra – 1998
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Tobias Picker – Old and Lost Rivers – double bass and orchestra – 1986
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Peteris Vasks – Bass Trip – solo double bass – 2003
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Jacob Druckman – Reflections on the Nature of Water – solo double bass – 1986