Please use the links below to find the titles recommended in the Trinity College Exam Syllabus:

Trinity Scales and Arpeggios – Grades Initial to 8

Trinity Sight reading Grades 1 to 8

Trinity Aural Test books Grades 1 to 5

Double Bass Pieces for Grade 1
Candidates perform a balanced programme of three pieces, chosen from the list below. Only one duet may be chosen. Only one unaccompanied piece may be chosen. Pieces by at least two composers must be played. An own composition may be played instead of one listed piece. Pieces marked ✯ must be unaccompanied.

Bottesini, Study no. 18 or Study no. 40, Method for Double Bass part 1, (Yorke) YE0076
Carroll, Cuban Rumba, Five National Dances, (Stainer & Bell) H290
Dare, Menuet, (Yorke) YE0012
Dittersdorf, German Dance, Double Bass Collection: Concert Pieces for Double Bass and Piano, (Bärenreiter) BA9696
Glière, arr. Isaac, Russian Sailors' Dance (from The Red Poppy), (Fischer) B3394
Goddard, Gerty Goat Scuffer, (Spartan) SP1202
Hauta-aho, Latin Jazz (no. 1 from Two Pieces for TDR)✯[all pizzicato], Pizzicato Pieces book 2, (Recital) RM163
Lancen, Berceuse for Baby Hippopotamus, (Yorke) YE0054
Mendelssohn, Romance sans Paroles, Pièces Classiques pour Contrebasse vol. 2B, (Billaudot) GB4195
Merle, Demetrius, Festival Performance Solos, (Fischer, piano accomp.) ) BF5
Nicks, A Dog's Life: Dog Tired and The Great Tail Chase, Yorke Solos vol. 1: 35 Easy Pieces, (Yorke) YE0087
Osborne, Faster than You Think![all pizzicato], Pizzicato All-Sorts, (Recital) RM420
Paxton, trans. Elliott, Allegretto (1st movt from Sonata in D major, op. 3 no. 2), (Bartholomew) BMP005
Pitfield, Quodlibet (2nd movt from Sonatina for Double Bass and Piano), (Yorke) YE0029
Proust, Le Bon Barbu Rond, (Combre) C06174
Purcell, arr. Hartley, Rondeau (from A Midsummer Night's Dream), Subterranean Solos, (Bartholomew, piano accomp.) BMP006
Rameau, Dance, no. 68, Bass is Best! book 2, (Yorke) YE0098
Rimsky-Korsakov, Mazurka, La Contrebasse Classique vol. B, (Combre) C5716
Wood, Teddy Bears, Wallpaper Tales, (Peters) EP71268

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