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  1. 3 Miniatures

    Composer: O'Toole, Anthony
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    unaccompanied:
    1. Intrada 2. Chant 3. Capriccio Learn More

    As low as $15.00

  2. 5 Segments for Solo Tuba

    Composer: Cummings, Barton
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Tuba, unaccompanied Learn More

    As low as $15.00

  3. Azure Roads

    Composer: Meier, Zachery. S
    Instrumentation: Solo and Piano Instruments: Piano, Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    with Piano; Composed for Chris Dickey, this piece is perfect for any college recital. Probably best on F or Eb tuba, but would work on C or Bb as well. Learn More

    As low as $17.00

  4. Big Alice

    Composer: Pullen, Don Arranger: Johnson, Howard
    Instrumentation: Solo and Tuba Ensemble Instruments: Bass, Drum Set, Piano, Tuba
    Genre: Jazz

    Tuba solo, 5 Tubas, Piano, Bass and Drum Set

    Big Alice goes from the Bo Diddly rhythm figure and gets more raucous as the piece goes on.”

    • Howard Johnson

    When Howard heard Don Pullen’s chart, he immediately wanted to arrange the piece for Gravity to play. During a rehearsal when he brought the arrangement to the band, he called Don Pullen and the ensemble played the arrangement on Pullen’s telephone answering machine. When Don Pullen heard the musical message, he immediately called Howard and exclaimed that “he loved it!”

    Howard Johnson’s jazz tuba ensemble is envisioned as a tuba choir- with tubas in F, E flat, CC, and BB flat- that encourages tuba players to learn to play in the upper register. His charts were originally written for his tuba jazz ensemble, Gravity, formed in 1968 with Howard Johnson as solo lead tuba. The charts can in fact be performed with euphoniums; but he formed his group, made his arrangements and developed this specific instrumentation 50 years ago as a statement about tubas and prefers to hear his arrangements played in this configuration, encouraging tuba players to develop the range required. His most important advice is that whatever instrumentation is used, make it fun and find the best jazz rhythm section!

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  5. Blue Grace

    Composer: Sievers, Claire
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary

    Unaccompanied; tuba part comes with C, B-flat and E-flat parts

    Part of the VTEC 2021 solo competition:

    Tuba - 16-19: Blue Grace (Claire Sievers)

     

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    As low as $13.00

  6. Boom!

    Composer: O'Toole, Anthony
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    Unaccompanied; A challenging piece for any college performer Learn More

    As low as $15.00

  7. Concert Etude, Op. 49

    Composer: Goedicke, A Arranger: Stuckemeyer, Patrick
    Instrumentation: Solo and Tuba Ensemble Instruments: Euphonium, Trumpet, Tuba
    Genre: Classical

    Goedicke’s Concert Etude, op. 49 was originally written for trumpet, and remains Goedicke’s most popular and most frequently performed work. It has been arranged for nearly every instrument in the brass family at one time or another, and here is accompanied by a flexible brass ensemble

    This versatile solo works great as a showpiece for either euphonium or trombone with a variety of accompaniments. The accompanying ensemble can be trombone quintet, tube/euphonium ensemble, or simply a mix of low brass instruments. This accompaniment will also work with the original trumpet solo edition.

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  8. Contraptions

    Composer: Miles, Ben
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    unaccompanied: 5 movements Learn More

    As low as $17.00

  9. Danças Para Um Amigo

    Composer: Self, Jim
    Instrumentation: Brass Choir Instruments: Alto Sax, Baritone Sax, Percussion, Soprano Sax, Tenor Sax, Tuba, Vibraphone
    Genre: Contemporary

    Recording by:

    Sérgio Carolino, bass tuba  
    SAXOFÍNIA - Saxophone Quartet 
    José Massarrão - soprano sax 
    José Lopes - alto sax 
    Mário Marques - tenor sax 
    Alberto Roque - baritone sax 
    Jeffery Davis - vibraphone 
     

    “Danças Para Um Amigo 2005  (Dances for a Special Friend) was commissioned by and written for the Portuguese Tuba virtuoso, Sergio Carolino. It is for Solo Tuba, Saxophone Quartet and Vibraphone (with percussion). There are four contrasting movements. Rapidinho is a fast, odd-meter romp. Much of the movement is in 5/8 with much rhythmic overlapping between the instruments. It ends in a vamp and fade. Vagaroso is in a slow 11/8 meter with much contrapuntal interaction between the tuba and vibraphone. The saxophones play a more accompaniment role. Brincadeiras (scherzo) is a jazzy alla breve with lots of syncopation. There is an optional improvised section for the solo tuba and tenor sax with modal and augmented chord changes. The “groove” for this movement was inspired by the theme music to the US PBS Charlie Rose Show. The finale movement, Correrias (chase), is a fast, driving virtuoso movement for all the instruments. The rhythm is a constantly changing 3/4- 6/8 feel propelling to a final double high Bbtuba note. “Danças….. was written with the special talents of Sr. Carolino in mind. His ability to play technicallychallenging and improvisational music is very unique.

    Jim Self is a Los Angeles free-lance musician, a veteran of thousands of motion pictures, television shows and records, and tuba soloist on many prominent movies. He is Principal Tubist with the Pasadena and Pacific Symphonies, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Los Angeles Opera and Opera Pacific orchestras. His compositions and arrangements include works for solo tuba, brass quintet, and other brass and woodwind chamber music.

    More about Jim and his recordings can be found here:

    Basset Hound Music - http://www.bassethoundmusic.com 

     

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  10. E Lucevan Le Stelle

    Composer: Puccini, Giaccomo Arranger: Caldarise, Joseph
    Instrumentation: Solo and Trombone Ensemble Instruments: Bass Trombone, Trombone, Tuba
    Genre: Classical, Opera

    with 6 Trombones and Bass Trombone

    “E Lucevan Le Stelle”, extracted from the third act of the opera Tosca, is one of the most important arias in the operatic repertoire. The character Mario Cavaradossi, a painter in love with Tosca, sings it as he awaits his execution on the roof of the Castel Sant’Angelo in Rome. Here, it is set for solo tuba and trombone choir.

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  11. Egyptian Gods

    Composer: Torres, Julian C.
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary

    unaccompanied

    I. Apophis – God of Darkness and Destruction

    II. Anubis – God of Death and the Afterlife

    III. Horus – God of War and the Sky

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  12. Evolution

    Composer: Neloms, Bob Arranger: Johnson, Howard
    Instrumentation: Solo and Tuba Ensemble Instruments: Bass, Drum Set, Piano, Tuba
    Genre: Jazz

    Tuba solo, 5 Tubas, Piano, Bass and Drum Set

    “I learned this tune from Bob Neloms when I was 18 and he was 16 years old. I’m still playing it although he barely remembers writing it.”

    • Howard Johnson

    Howard Johnson’s arrangement of Evolution was first performed in the early 1970s. Recordings of the arrangement with the original Gravity personnel have been lost. Bob Neloms is known for his active musical life as a post-bop jazz pianist in New York starting in the late 1960s. The story has it that many years later when Howard played Evolution for Bob Neloms, Bob did not recall the composition. The evolution is that learning and recreating Bob Neloms’ chart was monumental for Howard. He continued to use this composition to build his knowledge of jazz harmony and to develop and sharpen his improvisational skills.

    Howard Johnson’s jazz tuba ensemble is envisioned as a tuba choir- with tubas in F, E flat, CC, and BB flat- that encourages tuba players to learn to play in the upper register. His charts were originally written for his tuba jazz ensemble, Gravity, formed in 1968 with Howard Johnson as solo lead tuba. The charts can in fact be performed with euphoniums; but he formed his group, made is arrangements and developed this specific instrumentation 50 years ago as a statement about tubas and prefers to hear his arrangements played in this configuration, encouraging tuba players to develop the range required. His most important advice is that whatever instrumentation is used, make it fun and find the best jazz rhythm section!

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    To $45.90

  13. Fantasy for Solo Tuba

    Composer: Paasch, Antony
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary
    For unaccompanied Tuba, "Fantasy" offers a good challenge for the medium-advanced to advanced player. This is a one movement work. Learn More

    As low as $15.00

  14. Fly With The Wind

    Composer: Tyner, McCoy Arranger: Johnson, Howard
    Instrumentation: Solo and Tuba Ensemble Instruments: Bass, Drum Set, Piano, Tuba
    Genre: Jazz

    Tuba solo, 5 Tubas, Piano, Bass and Drum Set

    Fly with the Wind is what McCoy does better than anyone else. The soaring melodic and intense rhythmic nature of this composition carries me aloft.”

    • Howard Johnson

    Fly with the Wind was originally recorded in 1976. The album featuring this title track was McCoy Tyner’s first all-strings project with flute, oboe and his rhythm section featuring McCoy Tyner, piano, Ron Carter, bass, and Billy Cobham, drums. Later in 1992, The Turning Point album was released on the Birdology label with McCoy Tyner’s Big Band, featuring Howard as both a tubist and an arranger.

    Howard Johnson’s jazz tuba ensemble is envisioned as a tuba choir- with tubas in F, E flat, CC, and BB flat- that encourages tuba players to learn to play in the upper register. His charts were originally written for his tuba jazz ensemble, Gravity, formed in 1968 with Howard Johnson as solo lead tuba. The charts can in fact be performed with euphoniums; but he formed his group, made his arrangements and developed this specific instrumentation 50 years ago as a statement about tubas and prefers to hear his arrangements played in this configuration, encouraging tuba players to develop the range required. His most important advice is that whatever instrumentation is used, make it fun and find the best jazz rhythm section!

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    To $45.90

  15. Fnugg (solo tuba)

    Composer: Baadsvik, Øystein
    Instrumentation: Solo Instruments: Tuba
    Genre: Contemporary, Entertainment, Jazz
    "Fnugg is the best new thing I’ve heard in years." Roger Bobo Learn More

    As low as $15.00

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