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Morton Gould, Tuba Suite for Solo Tuba and 3 Horns (1971) Meyer Kupferman, Sound Objects 1-3 (1978), for tuba, trumpet and piano (1978) [4] Alvin Lucier, Sestina for Contrabass Flute, Contrabass Saxophone and Contrabass Tuba (2000) Larry Polansky, Two Children's Songs for Trombone and Tuba (1992) Larry Polansky, Three Pieces for Trombone and ...
World (1968/74), for 6 voices, 2 flutes (both doubling piccolo and the second alto flute), 2 oboes (one doubling oboe d'amore, the other cor anglais), 2 clarinets (the second doubling E-flat clarinet), 2 piccolo trumpets, trombone, tuba, 3 percussionists, cimbalom, celesta, 2 pianos, harp, 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos, 2 double basses [19'] [2]
For Lenny (1988), variation for solo piano on Bernstein's song "New York, New York"; also version for obbligato piano and orchestra The piece that stands apart from this largely neoclassical repertoire is Solo (1981), a hybrid minimalist and twelve-tone work employing as a guiding technical principle the gradual transformation of several pitch ...
Opus clavicembalisticum is a work for solo piano, notable for its length and difficulty, composed by Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji and completed on 25 June 1930. [1]At the time of its completion, it was the longest piano piece in existence, taking around 4–4½ hours to play, depending on tempo.
The Concerto in F Minor for Bass Tuba and Orchestra by British composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was written in 1954 for Philip Catelinet, principal tubist of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), who together gave the premiere on 13 June 1954 with Sir John Barbirolli conducting. [1] The same musicians made the work’s first recording that same ...
Based on a Sousa's 1890 song "Nail the flag to the mast". Sousa made some modifications in the song and composed this march for piano, which he apparently never arranged on a band or orchestra. The first strain is through-composed without repeats, the typical contrasting second strain, nor any break strain in the Trio.
The Tuba Concerto is a composition for solo tuba and orchestra by the American composer Jennifer Higdon. The work was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for their principal tubist Craig Knox. It was first performed by Knox and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under the conductor Robert Spano on March 16, 2018. [1] [2] [3]
[3] Although composed as part of a set, each piece stands on its own as a concert solo with individual themes and moods. [2] The pieces span a variety of themes ranging from the funeral march of number three to the canon of number six, the Moments musicaux are both Rachmaninoff's return to and revolution of solo piano composition. [3]