Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Double Bass Orchestral Excerpts – BMus 2

Britten ‘A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra’ (bass variation)

Haydn bass solos from Symphony No.31 and No.45

Mussorgsky ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ (Samuel Golsberg and Schmuyle)

Prokofiev ‘Lieutenant Kije’ (bass solo)

(all contained in ‘Double Bass solo 2’ OUP)

Berlioz overture ‘Roman Carnival’

(Fig. 7 -13)

Beethoven Symphony No.7

(1st movement: bars 15-42, 84-108, 132-174, 278-299)

Beethoven Recitative from Symphony No. 9

Mozart Symphony No. 41

(1st movement bars 134-153, 4th movement bars 53-73 and 95-115)

Mendelssohn Symphony No. 4

(1st movement bars 67-90 & 210-230, 4th movement bars 34-52 & 226-235)

Brahms Symphony No.2

(4th movement, bars 1-32, 244-279)

Verdi overture from ‘La Forza del Destino’

(Fig. C – J)

Strauss Don Juan

(bars 1-5, letter A for 7 bars; 3 bars before B till 4 bars after B; letter F
bars 3-18, letter I bar 5 till K)

Strauss Till Eulenspiegels Lustige Streiche

(fig.2 bars 3-4;
2 bars before fig.3 up to 8 bars after fig.3;
2 bars before fig.5 up to fig.6;
5 bars before fig.10 up to 2 bars before fig.11;
4 bars before fig.18 up to 6 bars before fig.20;
8 bars before fig.31 up to fig.31;
fig.35 up to 4 bars before fig.38)