Bass Clef Duets Book 2

14 Pieces for 2 Double Basses
14 Pieces for 2 Double Basses
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RMD1091

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Bass Clef Duets Book 2 is the second in a series of books for two double basses.

Edited and arranged by Bertram Turetzky, the duets are useful as sight-reading music for the teacher and student, as fun pieces to play with friends, or as accessible and inventive repertoire to play in a recital.

Each piece has been carefully selected and edited with all three aims in mind and Book 2 brings together twelve composers from the 15th to the 18th-century.

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Bass Clef Duets Book 2 is the second in a series of books for two double basses.

Edited and arranged by Bertram Turetzky, the duets are useful as sight-reading music for the teacher and student, as fun pieces to play with friends, or as accessible and inventive repertoire to play in a recital.

Each piece has been carefully selected and edited with all three aims in mind and Book 2 brings together twelve composers from the 15th to the 18th-century.

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Born on 14 February 1933 in Norwich, Connecticut Bertram Turetzky took up the` tenor banjo at the age of 12 or 13, he switched to the guitar in high school, having fallen in love with jazz, and then changed to the double bass which he described as ‘…the core of everything, the glue between the harmony and the wind instruments.’ He subsequently studied at New York University and Hartt College of Music of the University of Hartford and slowly changed direction from jazz to everything else a bassist is asked to do – symphony, opera, contemporary, jazz, teaching and recitals, featuring many of the new works that were being written for him. For many years he combined his hectic performance schedule with teaching, first at the Hartt School of Music and from 1968 as Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego, where he retired as ‘Distinguished Professor Emeritus’ only a few years ago.

Alongside his passion for contemporary music, Bert has also played a wealth of music from the 15th and 16th-centuries. He has transcribed works for every possible combination of instruments, but usually including the flute which was always played by his wife Nancy, and the husband and wife partnership have been fearless in their promotion of music for this rare instrumental duo. The vast majority of repertoire for flute and double bass today was either written for Bert and Nancy, or inspired by them. Bert has an interest in any repertoire which features the double bass and has championed many chamber works which are unknown or have been forgotten.

Bert has composed and transcribed many works for double bass. For some years his interest in the music of Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846) was a passion and in the early 1960s he edited six waltzes for unaccompanied double bass by the great Venetian bassist. Although Bert Turetzky has spent most of his life playing modern music and creating every possible sound and noise that the double bass can produce, his own compositions, on the whole, are far more traditional and accessible. He has composed a whole range of music for double bass, probably for his own use or for his students, and into his 80s the desire to compose and perform are as strong as ever.
[David Heyes/June 2015]

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