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 7
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,
Harrison, Harlequin's Dance for Columbine, Harlequinade, (Recital) RM506
Hauta-aho, Erkon Elegia✯, (Recital) RM104
Hegner, Romance, (Recital) RM028
Kelly, Caliban, Caliban and Ariel, (Yorke) YE0065
Kohaut, Adagio (2nd movt from Concerto for Double Bass), (Yorke) YE0094
Noskowski, Elegy Polonaise, Miniatures book 1, (Recital) RM113
Osborne, Count Me In![all pizzicato], Junior Jazz book 2, (Recital) RM081
Ratez, Cantabile, op. 46 no. 2 , Characteristic Pieces book 1, (Recital) RM189
Rossini, arr. Heyes, Une larme (A Tear), (Recital) RM303
Russell, Divergent Dances, (Recital) RM458
Saint-Saèns, arr. McTier, Aria ‘Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix', (McTier) MM207
Waud, Novelette, Yorke Solos vol. 1: 35 Easy Pieces, (Yorke) YE0087

Group B,
J S Bach, Gavotte in G minor , Festival Performance Solos, (Fischer, piano accomp.) BF5
Beethoven, Tema con variazioni, La Contrebasse classique vol. B, (Combre) CO5716
Breuer, Allegro ma non troppo (1st movt from Sonatine), (Breitkopf) BG506
Caroll, Toccata, Three Pieces for Double Bass, (Forsyth) FCI01
Clucas, Andante con moto (2nd movt from Sonatina), (Recital) RM295
Furtok, Concert Piece, Double Bass Collection: Concert Pieces for Double Bass and Piano, (Bärenreiter) BA9696
Galliard, Allegro and Andante teneramente (2nd and 3rd movts from Sonata in G), (IMC) 1152
Johns, Deeply Blue[all pizzicato], (Broadbent & Dunn) 12407
Leogrande, May I✯, (Spartan) SP930
Marcello, arr. Zimmermann, Adagio and (Allegro) (1st and 2nd movts from Sonata no. 2 in E minor), (IMC) 1050
Mozart, arr. Sankey, Rondo: tempo di minuetto (3rd movt from Bassoon Concerto in B♭, K 191) (bar 42 played 8va higher; bar 135 optional 8va higher), (IMC) 2421
Osborne, Mixed Feelings [all pizzicato], Pizzicato All-Sorts, (Recital) RM420
Sullivan, arr. Frampton, Idyll, (Four Bass)
Benstead, Lament, no. 3 , Four Episodes, (Yorke) YE0085

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