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The incredible diversity of the bass guitar is revealed in this newly revised, all-inclusive style guide. Each chapter covers particular styles or families of styles, gradually introducing players to techniques that will allow them to get the most out of their instrument and eas…
Learn the tricks and technique of playing rockabilly bass from one of the world's foremost masters, Johnny Hatton.
Throughout the history of the double bass, performance with a bow of some kind was standard practice. Not until the swing era in early jazz did performers begin using pizzicato as the primary means of articulation. Many performers such as Jimmy Blanton, Slam Stewart, and Paul Ch…
Antonio Scontrino (1850-1922) was an important Italian Romantic composer, virtuoso double bassist, and respected pedagogue who is relatively unknown outside of the Italian musical community. His compositional output is prolific and includes string quartets, operas, symphonies, c…
This study offers an examination of available double bass music from two Mandarin-speaking countries: Taiwan and China. Western music and Western instruments were introduced to China and Taiwan throughout the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. The au…
Adolf Meier’s Konzertante Musik für Kontrabaß in der Wiener Klassik shows how the contrabass player and composer Johann Matthias Sperger (1750–1812) participated in both the public and private arenas of high society, toured as a soloist, and played in the leading Kapelle orchest…