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 6 to 8

Orchestral Extracts required for the technical exam can be found in Orchester Probespiel: Double Bass

Double Bass Pieces for Grade 6
Candidates perform a balanced programme of three pieces chosen from the list below, containing at least one piece from each group. Only one unaccompanied piece may be chosen. Pieces by at least two composers must be played. Only one all pizzicato piece may be played. An own composition may be played instead of one listed piece. Pieces marked ✯ must be unaccompanied.

Group A,
Clucas, Courante✯ or Gigue✯, Baroque Suite, (Recital) RM141
Elliott, Odd Man Out, (Yorke) YE0015
Giordani, arr. Sterling, Larghetto, Two Eighteenth-Century Pieces, (Stainer & Bell) H468
Gouinguené, Adagio, (Leduc) AL25774
Hauta-aho, A Little Waltz (Pieni Valssi), Teppo's Tunes, (Recital) RM068
Marcello, arr. Zimmermann, Grave and Allegro (3rd and 4th movts from Sonata no. 6 in G), (IMC) 1159
Merle, Caballero, Festival Performance Solos, (Fischer, piano accomp.) ) BF5
Osborne, Ballad in Blue [all pizzicato], Junior Jazz book 2, (Recital) RM081
Russell, Con moto (3rd movt from Lyric Sonata), (Recital) RM436
Saint-Saèns, The Elephant (from The Carnival of the Animals), (Henle) HN730
Walton, A Deep Song, (Yorke) YE005

Group B,
Boccherini, Menuet, Pièces Classiques pour Contrebasse vol. 2B, (Billaudot) GB4195
Bottesini, Study no. 43 or Study no. 54, Method for Double Bass part 1, (Yorke) YE0076
Carroll, Fantasia in E minor, Three Pieces for Double Bass, (Forsyth) FCI01
Diabelli, Sonatine, La Contrebasse Classique vol. B, (Combre) CO5716
Gabriel-Marie, arr. Elliott, La Cinquantaine, (Bartholomew) BMP001
Gordon, Fine Day♭✯, Fine Day♭ And Skerry Selkie, (Spartan) SP929
Hauta-aho, (Allegro) sostenuto (3rd movt from Jazz Sonatine no. 2)✯, (Recital) RM333
Hauta-aho, Di-Ba-Dum✯[all pizzicato], Pizzicato Pieces book 1, (Recital) RM097
Láska, A la Hongroise , Miniatures book 1, (Recital) RM113
Nölck, Tempo di Ballo (from Petit album de concert), Double Bass Collection: Concert Pieces for Double Bass and Piano, (Bärenreiter) BA9696
Ratez, Parade, op. 46 no. 1, Characteristic Pieces book 1, (Recital) RM189
Russell, (Allegro) ritmico and Andante (1st and 2nd movts from Buffo Set), (Recital) RM243
Walter, The Elephant's Gavotte, (Yorke) YE0038

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