A Progressive Guide to Orchestral Excerpts for Double Bass, Volume 1 by Sean Casey

About the Guide

This book teaches students how to play orchestral excerpts for bass auditions in middle and high school and scaffolding techniques needed to advance to the next excerpt. Excerpts will introduce students to a variety of bow strokes and styles through different composers.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Guide to Bowing
Guide to Dynamics

Chapter 1: Beethoven - Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy Theme
Chapter 2: Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings, Fourth Movement
Chapter 3: Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique, Fourth Movement
Chapter 4: Mahler - Symphony No. 1, Third Movement solo
Chapter 5: Brahms - Symphony No. 2, First Movement
Chapter 6: Beethoven - Symphony No. 7, Second Movement
Chapter 7: Wagner - Overture to Die Meistersinger
Chapter 8: Dvorak - Symphony No. 8, Fourth Movement
Chapter 9: Dvorak - Symphony No. 9, Fourth Movement
Chapter 10: Beethoven - Symphony No. 4, First Movement
Chapter 11: Beethoven - Symphony No. 4, Fourth Movement
Chapter 12: Mozart - The Magic Flute Overture
Chapter 13: Dukas - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Chapter 14: Sibelius - Symphony No. 2, Second Movement
Chapter 15: J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, First Movement
Chapter 16: Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique, Fifth Movement

About the Author

Sean Michael Casey is a bass teacher in the greater Seattle-Tacoma region, offering lessons to students of all ages and experience. After ten years teaching in Texas, Mr. Casey and his wife relocated to Washington state in 2024 to be nearer family. Mr. Casey is the author of A Progressive Guide to Orchestral Excerpts for Double Bass, Volume 1.