for the Double Bass-Zimmermann played principle double bass for the NY Philharmonic and taught at Juilliard Columbia Manhattan School of Music and NYU. Through many helpful exercises and patterns this book teaches double bassists techniques to help them master the fingerings and bowing patterns needed to play this instrument.

A large-scale solo piece using the blues form and jazz language changing meters contrasting tempi and vocal sounds to fuse the jazz world with the world of concert music in a unique way. The composer is one of the world's foremost exponents of contemporary bass music. Duration c.4'.Grade: Advanced

Good work for examinations and recitals by an important British composer. Duration c.6'. AMEB (Australian Syllabus) 2004. Programme notes as follows:Lennox Berkeley was born in 1903 and died in 1989. After reading modern languages at Oxford he had no intention of becoming a composer until he met Ravel in 1926 who encouraged him to study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He stayed in Paris until 1932 developing his own musical language. In 1936 after the death of his mother he went to Barcelona for the International Society for Contemporary Music festival where he met Benjamin Britten. The two lived together at Snape in Suffolk for a while until the outbreak ofwar before Berkeley moved back to London to work for the BBC. Here he met his future wife Freda Bernstein. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music in London from 1946 until 1968 where his pupils included Richard Rodney Bennett Nicholas Maw and John Tavener among others. He was knighted in 1974. In early February 1971 I was playing in a concert at St. John's Smith Square London then only relatively recently restored as a superb venue for music. The programme which I believe was being broadcast included Berkeley's Serenade Op.12. It was a work I had always enjoyed playing and was standard string orchestra repertoire at the time. There was initially no platform at St. John's and so the audience sat virtually on top of the performers. So close were they on this occasion that I had to ask for a little more room in order to play. At the end of the piece the orchestra acknowledged the applause and the gentleman who I had all but practically decapitated with my over-enthusiastic playing stood up and took a bow. I had been almost playing in Lennox Berkeley's lap! The opportunity was too good to miss and I wasted little time in introducing myself. Mr Berkeley said that he had been fascinated by my playing and asked me to write to him about a possible commission.This I did on 6 February mentioning that

Piano Reduction and Parts for Quintet-It is a bit of a paradox: one of Dragonetti?s favourite pieces and also his showpiece The Famous Solo originally for Double Bass and Orchestra is largely unknown today. This cannot be down to thevirtuoso work itself but is more likely due to the unclear source situation with its different versions.In this edition Tobias Glöckler presents Dragonetti?s autograph arrangement for Double Bass and StringQuartet for the first time. For those who would like to study the orchestral version there is also a Piano reduction based on a contemporary model. Using this edition The Famous Solo can be performed as neededin the solo and orchestral tuning Piano scores and quartet parts in e minor and f sharp minor are also included.

This players’ score of Duo Concertante contains a stunning contemporary composition for Violin and Double Bass by Niels Viggo Bentzon. Completed in 1989 this string duo chamber work is dedicated to Helge Slaato and Frank Reinecke who edited the work.