violin/tuba duets

July 20, 2005 at 10:17 PM · I heard it (about) two years ago at a performance that the fraternities at my school were doing. It is a really funny piece!

July 24, 2005 at 11:47 PM · Other works for this combination:

Frackenpohl, Arthur Roland ( 1924 - )

Air and Dance, for tuba and violin

Duos: Tuba, Violin

Price $8.00

Publisher: Tuba-Euphonium Press

http://www.tubaeuphoniumpress.com/

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Scott Joplin/arr Frackenpohl-

The Nonpareil, for tuba and violin

Price $10.00

Publisher: Tuba-Euphonium Press

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Yoran, Victor

Duo, for tuba and violin

Duos: Tuba, Violin

Price $24.00

Publisher: Tuba-Euphonium Press

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Schmidt, Kevin

In My Fields of Tar and Poppies

Duo:Tuba and Violin duet)

Unpublished - contact:

kevin@bassboneman.com

http://www.bassboneman.com/

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AND THE DETAILS FOR THE P.D.Q.BACH WORK!

P.D.Q. Bach - Schickele, Peter, (1935-)

Only Piece Ever Written For Violin And Tuba :

For Violin And Tuba (S. 9, 10, Big Fat Hen)

Schickele edited this piece by P.D.Q. Bach. The four movements are titled: Andante alighieri; Shake allegro; Lento nice 'n' easyo; and Allegro, but not too mucho. With program notes.

King Of Prussia: Theodore Presser Co. ©2003

Set Of 2 Scores; 31 cm.; 2x8 p. $9.95

Edition #/ISBN: 11441168

July 26, 2005 at 02:19 AM · Clint ~

Thank you so much for the information on the other arrangements. How did you find these? And where??? Have you played any of them? Sorry for all the questions, but my friend and I have never before heard or played anything for tuba and violin. Thanks again for digging this up for me!

July 30, 2005 at 12:42 AM · A large database to find information about music is emusicquest aka Music-In-Print.

It is a subscription which both individuals and libraries can buy. If your local or college library does not subscribe you could encourage them to do so.

For details - http://www.emusicquest.com/pricing.htm

January 31, 2008 at 12:51 PM · Found this old thread on a Google search - was curious about how this piece is doig out there. I was lucky enough to have given this work it's world premier during a Fort Worth Civic Orchestra Concert at Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.

We had started a series of PDQ Bach concerts - one each summer. This was our 4th concert. We had already played all the large orcehstral works and were looking for ways to program some of the smaller, more popular works - especially Iphegenia in Brooklyn. In the catalog we found listed - "The Only Piece Ever Written for Violin and Tuba." This created the seed idea for the entire concert. We had played the previous PDQ Concert in Dallas at the Meyerson, and this year we were in Fort Worth. So the idea was that when the concert began, there woule be no one on stage but a single Tuba player. I, as the concertmaster would be there, off on the wings animatedly talking to other Orchestra Officials looking cocnerned. Our host would go out and apologize, when the cell phone of one of the officers would ring, and a conversaion would ensue where we find out that almost all the orchestra is at the Meyerson in Dallas - apparently there was a mix up in communications. All we have there at the Bass Hall was a Tubist and a Violinist. So we start digging through a large box of music - surely there is soemthing written for Vioin and Tuba - and we come up with this piece. The concert continues in this manner and play larger and larger pieces as more and more of the Orchestra shows up. It was a lot of fun.

So when we went to order this piece, we found out that is was not available. We were devasated, we had written the entire script around this, so we contacted Schickele and explained out situation. He told us that it had been started years ago, but he had never completed the middle two movements. He agreed to finish it for us, but warned that he was in the middle of completing a large commissioned work (his violin concerto) that was being premeired that summer. The Only Piece was literally was being completed as we were closing in on the concert date. We recieved the first two movements pretty quickly, but the middle two movements we did not get until literally 10 days before the concert. The quality of the fax coupled with Maestro Schickele's hen scratch manuscript was so unreadable that I manually copied out the parts so we had something to work with (plus because of the script, it needed to be on something that looked like very old parchment).

The premier went okay (the dress rehearsal was fantastic! - %#$#% - stage nerves for someone out of the profession for many many years). However, the audience loved it. It is a great piece. I delivered a recording of it to Schickele in New York later that year (no I never got to meet him, his assistant came down and got it - he was out of town).

About a year later when Schickele was about to send it to the publisher, his assistant called me in a panic. They could not find his manuscript and they were hoping that I still had a copy of it. I sent him my manuscript and that is what the published work is based on (I didn't change anything - at least not on purpose, but I think he made a few edits). The coolest part is he mentioned me and the tubist in the published work.