Music for your Grade Exam
Board: ABRSM
Syllabus: Double Bass 2020-2023
Grade: 2
Candidates may perform some or all of their pieces with a string accompaniment. Pieces that are published as duets are marked (DUET) in the syllabus list. Pieces that are published with piano and string accompaniment options are marked (PF/DB) in the syllabus list, and may be performed with either accompaniment in the exam.
Important information:
Please note that the information listed below does not contain complete syllabus details. Therefore, when planning an exam entry, it is important to refer to the current syllabus - for Practical Grades or Performance Grades - and the Exam Information & Regulations.
Pieces (for Practical Grades – select one from each list; for Performance Grades – select one from each list, plus an own-choice piece)
List AAvailable In
1. Ecossaise
Beethoven
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Grade By Grade: Double Bass - Grade 2 (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$18.22
2. Song of the French Revolution
Trad. French
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Grade By Grade: Double Bass - Grade 2 (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$18.22
3. Minuetto: from String Quartet in C, Op. 24 No. 4
Boccherini
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$12.76
4. Bourrée
C. Graupner
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$20.65
5. Gavotte (PF/DB)
Handel
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Essential String Method 3 & 4 Cello & Double Bass (piano accompaniment) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$20.65 -
The Essential String Method, Book 4 (Double Bass) (revised edition) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$25.52
6. Upon Paul's Steeple
Trad.
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Essential String Method 3 & 4 Cello & Double Bass (piano accompaniment) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$20.65
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The Essential String Method, Book 4 (Double Bass) (revised edition) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$25.52
7. The Merry Peasant (The Happy Farmer): from Album for the Young, Op. 68
Schumann
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Essential String Method 3 & 4 Cello & Double Bass (piano accompaniment) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$20.65
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Suzuki Bass School Vol. 2 Double Bass Part (Revised Edition) (Alfred Summy-Birchard)$10.88 -
Suzuki Bass School Vol. 2 Piano Accompaniment (Revised Edition) (Alfred Summy-Birchard)$8.50 -
The Essential String Method, Book 4 (Double Bass) (revised edition) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$25.52
9. Minuet in D, BWV Anh. II 114
C. Petzold
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Anna Magdalena Notebook (arr. for double bass) (Bartholomew)$9.12 -
$10.88
10. Soldiers' March: from Album for the Young, Op. 68 (DUET)
Schumann
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Double Bass Solo Book 1 (2019 edition) (Oxford University Press)$23.04
List BAvailable In
1. Largo: from Symphony No. 9, 'From the New World'
Dvorák
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$20.65
2. Swan Lake
Tchaikovsky
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$20.65
3. Hungry Old Owl: No. 10 from Feathered Friends
Katrina Gordon
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Feathered Friends: 12 Pieces for Beginner Double Bass (Recital Music)$17.93
4. The Little Sailor
G. Nicks
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Bass Is Best! Yorke Mini-Bass Book 1 (Yorke Edition )$28.57 -
Yorke Solos for Double Bass & Piano vol. 1 (Yorke Edition )$20.06
5. Procession of Kings: No. 8 from The Double Bass Sings
Tony Osborne
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The Double Bass Sings (Piper )$20.61
6. Edelweiss: from The Sound of Music (PF/DB)
Rodgers and Hammerstein
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Abracadabra Double Bass Book 1 (Book & CD) (A&C Black-Collins Music)$19.44 -
Abracadabra Strings Book 1 (Piano Accompaniments for Violin, Viola, Cello & Double Bass) (A&C Black-Collins Music)$12.14
8. Friday's Child
M. Stanfield and S. Barlow
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Grade By Grade: Double Bass - Grade 2 (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$18.22
9. Greensleeves
Trad. English
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Essential String Method 3 & 4 Cello & Double Bass (piano accompaniment) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$20.65
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The Essential String Method, Book 4 (Double Bass) (revised edition) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$25.52
10. All Through the Night (PF/DB)
Trad. Welsh
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Essential String Method 3 & 4 Cello & Double Bass (piano accompaniment) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$20.65
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The Essential String Method, Book 4 (Double Bass) (revised edition) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$25.52
List CAvailable In
1. We're off to see the wizard: from The Wizard of Oz (PF/DB)
Arlen & Harburg
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Abracadabra Double Bass Book 1 (Book & CD) (A&C Black-Collins Music)$19.44
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Abracadabra Strings Book 1 (Piano Accompaniments for Violin, Viola, Cello & Double Bass) (A&C Black-Collins Music)$12.14
2. Granite
Keith Ramon Cole
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Grade By Grade: Double Bass - Grade 2 (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$18.22
3. Blues in D: No. 3 from Bow that Bass!
James Cruttenden
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Bow that Bass! for double bass & piano (Recital Music)$17.93
4. Dinosaur Dance
Caroline Emery and Rodney Slatford
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Bass Is Best! Yorke Mini-Bass Book 1 (Yorke Edition )$28.57
5. Welsh Hungarian Dance (DUET)
Rodney Slatford
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Bass Is Best! Yorke Mini-Bass Book 1 (Yorke Edition )$28.57
6. Smooth Operator
Thomas Gregory
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Vamoosh Double Bass Book 2 (+ CD) (Vamoosh)$8.45 -
$10.88
9. The Caretaker: No. 7 from Microjazz for Double Bass
Christopher Norton
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Microjazz for Double Bass (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$19.44
10. March of the Kings (SOLO or PF ACCOMP.)
Trad.
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Essential String Method 3 & 4 Cello & Double Bass (piano accompaniment) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$20.65
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The Essential String Method, Book 4 (Double Bass) (revised edition) (Boosey & Hawkes (London))$25.52
Also RecommendedAvailable In
2. Sight Reading Tests
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$10.33
3. Preparation for the Aural Tests
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$24.25 -
Specimen Aural Tests, Grades 1–3 (ABRSM)$10.33 -
$19.39
