“How many double bass players does it take to screw in a lightbulb? It always seems to alternate between one and five!”
It may be true that the double bass has a lot of perfect cadences to play, but there is an awful lot more to the biggest member of the modern string family than meets the eye. Browse our sheet music and scores, take a look at Rock Double Bass, Double Bass Pop Music or Jazz for Double Bass, and whether you prefer arco or pizzicato, get that Double Bass Walking with Stretta today!
First seen in the middle of the 16th century, as a larger version of the bass viola, it wasn’t until the 18th century, once it had taken the shape we recognise today, that the double bass started being integrated into the modern-day orchestra. Nowadays, the double bass features as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and is also prominent in the worlds of jazz and pop.
Klassik
for: Double bass, piano
Score, solo part
Item no.: 980733
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 1657421
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 1668978
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1672002
400 Jahre tiefe Töne
for: Double bass
Book
Item no.: 1681330
for strings and piano string bass
for: Double bass
Item no.: 167618
for: 2 bass instruments
Ensemble score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 215350
für Kontrabass und Klavier
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 139658
for: Double bass, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 1306006
for: Double bass, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1277665
for: 2 double basses
Sheet music
Item no.: 1280597
Hausaufgabenheft für 32 Wochen, Notenzeilen, Kleines Musiklexikon
for: Instrument
Homework booklet
Item no.: 802497
11 Stücke für Saitenmusikbesetzung, 3-stimmig
Alpenländische Saitenmusik 4
for: 3 Stringed instruments
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1566589
Teil III: Bände 1-9
Eine Sammlung hervorragender Konzert-Etüden, Konzert- und Solostücke
for: Double bass, piano
9 music scores (solo part and piano score)
Item no.: 636139
for: Double bass, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291727
von Bach bis Holst
Bearbeitungen für Kontrabass und Klavier
von leicht bis II. Lage
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback) (anthology)
Item no.: 636126
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 1015808
7 variations on the duet "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen" from the Opera "Die Zauberflöte"
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 248021
Sudien und Übungen
for: Double bass
Music lesson book, DVD
Item no.: 655387
for: 4 double basses (double bass quartet)
Item no.: 328015
for string bass solo
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 164194
Klassik
for: 2 double basses
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285662
für Kontrabass und Klavier
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 273181
Transcribed for Double Bass Solo
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 360084
A Sequenced Guide to American Fiddling
CD inklusive
Ausgabe für Violoncello/Bass
for: Cello [double bass]
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 675027
With expamples by Giovanni Bassano (1591) – Francesco Rognoni (1620)
for: Bass instrument (C)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1632375
21 complete transcriptions as played by Dennis Irwin and 21 lead sheets
Jazz Conception
for: Double bass
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 295097
for: Double bass [tuba], piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 1667242
Orgelkompositionen mit Naturtrompete(n)
Musica con clarino Band 48a
for: 2–4 trumpets, timpani, 3 violins, viola, double bass
Score
Item no.: 1011479
for: Double bass, piano
Buch
Item no.: 478463
for: 2 double basses
Sheet music
Item no.: 1280693
for: Double bass, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1282434
25 leichte Stücke aus 5 Jahrhunderten in der halben und der 1. Lage
for: Double bass, piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1317300
26 Trios that can be played by any Combination of String Instruments
for: 1–3 double basses
Score
Item no.: 580558
for: Double bass
Item no.: 329817
bearbeitet für Violine Solo, alternativ Viola Solo, Klarinette in B, Marimba und Orchester
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817756
for: Instrument
Item no.: 137249
for: Bass instrument (bass clef)
Music lesson book, playback-CD
Item no.: 214063
für Kontrabass
for: Double bass
Music lesson book
Item no.: 393043
für Kontrabass solo
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 486282
For audibly tone and unit of rhythm
Edition Double Bass
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 279774
für Kontrabaß und Klavier
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 162072
A Practical Guide
for: Double bass [bass guitar]
Music lesson book (spiral binding), online audio
Item no.: 328396
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics
for: Cello [double bass], piano
Piano score, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 395216
für Kontrabass und Orchester - Ausgabe für Kontrabass und Klavier
Krebs 172 (enthält Fassung E-Dur und D-Dur)
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 281183
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 392904
arranged for double bass and piano
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 635954
Studies for Solo Double Bass
for: Double bass
Music lesson book
Item no.: 663860