Program Notes for the Solo Tuba

Contents

• Foreword by Harvey Phillips
• Preface
• Part One: The Repertoire
• Samuel Adler: Canto VII for Solo Tuba
• Eugene D. Anderson: Concert Piece for Tuba and Band; Concerto No. 1 in B minor for Tuba and Orchestra
• Theodore Antoniou: Six Likes for Tuba, Op. 33
• Jan Bach: Quintet for Tuba and Strings
• David Baker: Piece for Solo Tuba and Tuba Quartet: Sonata for Tuba and String Quartet
• Bennie Beach: Divertissement for Tuba
• Rule Beasley: Concerto for Tuba and Band
• Thomas Beversdorf: Sonata for Bass Tuba and Piano
• John Boda: Sonatina for Tuba and Piano
• Doug Borwick: Tuba Sonata
• Bruce Broughton: Concerto for Tuba and Wind Orchestra
• Newel Kay Brown: ... and then there were six
• Robert Chamberlin: Daysong; Elegy for Solo Tuba
• Barney Childs: Mary's Idea for Tuba and Harpsichord; Seaview for Tuba and Piano; A question of summer for Tuba and Harp
• John Downey: Tabu for Tuba
• Arthur Frackenpohl: Sonata for Tuba and Piano
• Gregory Fritze: Basso Concertino; Sonata for Tuba and Piano; Yevrah Yad Thrib Bypah
• Crawford Gates: Suite for Tuba, Op. 53
• Thom Ritter George: Concertino for Tuba, CN 320; Sonata for Tuba and Piano, CN 307
• Jennifer Glass: Sonatina for Tuba and Piano
• Morton Gould: Tuba Suite for Solo Tuba and Three Horns
• Edward Gregson: Concerto for Tuba and Brass Band (Orchestra, Band, Piano)
• Walter S. Hartley: Sonata for Tuba and Piano; Sonatina for Tuba and Piano; Suite for Unaccompanied Tuba
• Bernard Heiden: Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra; Variations for Solo Tuba and Nine Horns
• Paul Hindemith: Sonate for Bass Tuba and Klavier
• Merle E. Hogg: Sonatina for Tuba and Piano
• Robert Jager: Concerto for Bass Tuba and Band
• Roger Kellaway: Songs of Ascent for Solo Tuba and Orchestra
• Erland von Koch: Monologue No. 9
• William Kraft: Tuba Concerto (Andirivieni); Encounters II
• Frank Lynn Payne: Canzona de Sonare; Sonata for Tuba and Piano
• Richard Peaslee: The Devil's Herald
• Vincent Persichetti: Parable for Solo Tuba (Parable XXII), Op. 147; Serenade No. 12 for Solo Tuba, Op. 88
• Morgan Powell: Midnight Realities
• William Presser: Capriccio for Tuba and Band; Concerto for Tuba and Strings; Sonatina for Tuba and Piano; Second Sonatina for Tuba and Piano; Suite for Tuba
• David Reck: Five Studies for Tuba Alone
• Kjell Roikjer: Sonata for Tuba and Piano, Op. 68
• Walter Ross: Concerto for Tuba and Band; Midnight Variations
• Charles Ruggiero: Fractured Mambos
• Armand Russell: Suite concertante for Tuba and Woodwind Quintet
• Ole Schmidt: Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra
• William Schmidt: Concertino for Tuba and Woodwind Quintet; Serenade for Tuba and Piano; Sonata for Tuba and Piano; Tony and the Elephant or Jim and the Roadrunner; Tuba Mirum for Tuba, Winds and Percussion; Tunes
• Gunther Schuller: Capriccio for Tuba and Orchestra
• Robert Sibbing: Sonata for Tuba and Piano
• James Staples: Suite for Tuba and Piano
• Halsey Stevens: Sonatina for Tuba or Trombone and Piano
• John Stevens: Dances; Triumph of the Demon Gods; The Liberation of Sisyphus; Soliloquy-Peace in Our Time; Suite No. 1
• Richard Stroud: Night Train for Tubas; A Variation of East African Calls
• Donald Swann: Two Moods for Tuba
• Fred Tackett: The Yellow Bird
• Ralph Vaughan Williams: Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra
• Anthony Vazzana: Cambi
• Donald White: Sonata for Tuba and Piano
• Alec Wilder: Sonata for Tuba and Piano; Suite No. 1 for Tuba and Piano (effie Suite); Suite for French Horn, Tuba and Piano
• Rolf Wilhelm: Concertino for Tuba and Winds
• John Williams: Tuba Concerto
• Marilyn J. Ziffrin: Four Pieces for Tuba
• Part Two: Composer Profiles
• Paul Hindemith's Place in Twentieth-Century Music, by David Neumeyer
• Vincent Persichetti, by the Staff of Theodore Presser Company
• Remembering Halsey Stevens, by Morten Lauridsen
• Ralph Vaughan Williams, by Paul Borg
• Alec Wilder-A Short Biography, by Gunther Schuller, Loonis McGlohon, and Robert Levy