Double-Bass Notebook

Ideas, Tips and Pointers for the Complete Professional

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Kontrabass

Ausgabe:

Artikelnr.:

1618679

Autor / Komponist:

O'Brien, Orin

Umfang:

96 Seiten

Verlag / Hersteller:

Carl Fischer

Hersteller-Nr.:

CFK 12222

ISBN:

9780825888830

UPC:

0798408088835

Beschreibung

Highly-esteemed pedagogue and virtuoso Orin O'Brien offers a lifetime of insight in her acclaimed String-Bass Notebook: Ideas, Tips and Pointers for the Complete Professional. This volume draws together musical examples and intuitive texts which O'Brien has integrated as an essential part of her teaching studio. Works spanning from Zimmermann and Simandl, to articles from contemporary colleagues, form a strong and definitive compendium. Practical and professional advice is given on topics such as practicing, auditioning, and repertoire.

Inhalt

Foreword by Donald Palma
About Orin O'Brien
1. Introduction and Acknowledgements
1. ARF: Automatic Response File
1. Before You Play
1. Daily Practice Schedule Recommended
1. Four-Year Plan (For Conservatory and Private Study)
1. Recommended Study Material for Reading and Listening
1. Daily Warm-Up Finger Exercises (L.H.)
1. Frederick Zimmermann's A Contemporary Concept of Bowing Technique for the Double Bass Explained
1. Shifting Practice
1. Scale and Arpeggio Suggestions
1. Frederick Zimmermann's Editor's Note
1. Intonation Etude in D Major by T.A. Findeisen
1. Explanation of Hooked Bowings
1. Re-taking of Bow (Bow Retrieval) Etude by T.A. Findeisen
1. F. Simandl: Etude No. 13 from Gradus ad Parnassum
1. Articulation Terms
1. Rotation System of Practice (For Learning Difficult Passages)
1. Professional Behavior and Auditions
1. Basic Principles of Orchestral Playing
1. Repertoire Most Often Requested at Double Bass Auditions
1. Comparison Chart of Three Basic Styles of Music (Baroque, Classical and Romantic)
1. Becoming a Team Player by Jeanne Baxtresser
1. Audition Form Used at Professional Auditions
1. Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, Op. 125: Movement 4: Recitative (Score Articulations and Bowings)
1. Ginastera's Variaciones concertantes: Double Bass Solo by Orin O'Brien
1. Analytical Practicing by Barry Green
1. The Prague School (Courtesy of the Bass Club of Chicago)
1. Chamber Music for the Double Bass (Essential Repertoire)
1. Photos of Correct Left-Hand Position and Correct German and French Bow Grip