Schott Easy Concert Pieces Vol.2 - Contrebasse & Piano

Summary of This Score

"Easy Concert Pieces" is a series designed for double bassists wishing to enrich their practice with short, musical, and immediately rewarding pieces. Divided into three volumes sorted by level, it offers pieces suitable for an educational setting while remaining perfectly usable in recitals, competitions, or exams.

This Band 2 gathers 24 easy pieces for double bass and piano, selected from five centuries of music. The collection emphasizes playing from half position to 3rd position : an excellent ground to stabilize intonation, develop left-hand mobility, and gain confidence in position shifts, all while keeping the musical goal foremost.

The diversity of styles and characters allows working on expressiveness and listening with the accompaniment, thanks to a piano writing that supports the double bass line. It includes essential composers such as Bach, Haydn, Mozart, and Tchaikovsky, as well as pieces more specific to the instrument's repertoire with Dragonetti and Bottesini, not to mention traditional pieces and more modern works like Bartók or Hindemith.

The edition with CD enhances autonomous practice: each title is available in a full recording, but also in playback with piano alone, ideal for rehearsing rhythm, intonation, entrances, and timing before playing with an accompanist.

Technical specifications

Musical Genre

Classical

Publication

Sheet music

Composer	Collective	Instrumentation	double bass and piano
Edition	Edition with CD	Difficulty	easy to medium