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06-04-2009, 11:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey | | | Massenet Meditation from Thais
Hi all, I was curious as to whether or not anybody had any idea whether or not there is a transcription out there of the Jules Massenet Meditation melody from Thais for solo double bass with piano accompaniment, and, if so, where I could get one. I've heard it performed, but I cannot seem to find a bass transcription of it. Thank you!! 
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06-05-2009, 12:48 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Athens Greece | | | Google this:
public domain music library massenet thais meditation cello
Scroll down to the cello and piano arrangement and print page 2.
It's in D (some people like to play it on the bass in C with solo tuning.)
If you play orchestral tuning (like me) you should start with second finger on the Dstring ready to play the B in bar 2 with 3 on the Gstring. it's up to you from there but I assure you it is quite playable as it is here.
Be careful of the D# after the high F# and use this fingering for the B-F#-D#-A-G that follows:
3 on the G string , 2 on the D, thumb pressed, and 3(!) on the Gstring, which sets you up for 1 pressed, not harmonic.
Have fun
FC
Last edited by fergus currie : 06-05-2009 at 01:19 AM.
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06-06-2009, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Hackettstown, New Jersey | | | Thank you!
Wow, thank you, that was extremely helpful! It worked, just as you said it would. And thank you so much for the fingering advice, I really appreciate it!! |
06-18-2009, 10:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hamilton, VIC | | There is an edition of it here: http://www.stfrancismusic.com/DoubleBass2009.htm
Scroll down and it's under 'Classic Reprint Series'. It's the edition under the AMEB Grade 8 list of repertoire, so it can't be bad.  |
06-28-2009, 06:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: The Stage | | | This piece is so beautiful, it always brings a tear to my eye when you get those nice crescendos. |
06-29-2009, 11:57 AM
| | | | Such a beautiful piece. Could you explain what Grade 8 is? Intermediate? Advanced? |
06-29-2009, 01:30 PM
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07-01-2009, 02:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: The Stage | | | + 1 gabe! Didn't you play this on Ellen or the Rosie o'Donnel (sp?) show? |
07-02-2009, 12:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hamilton, VIC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jgbass  Such a beautiful piece. Could you explain what Grade 8 is? Intermediate? Advanced? | Hard to explain..
But, other pieces on the list include Koussevitsky's Chanson Triste, any complete Marcello sonata, any complete Vivaldi, the Eccles sonata, errrm.. the Gigue from Rabbath Book III, the Gigue from Bach suite 2... excerpt from 3rd mvmt of Beethoven's 5th. It's hard to remember.
... so maybe bridging intermediate and advanced?
The next level (Associate Diploma) has the Bottesini Elegy (and it might even have Proto's Sonata 1963). The level below (grade 7) has the Bottesini Reverie.. so it's somewhere between those two.
The ABRSM, which is an international/British equivalent of AMEB, has its syllabus' available for download here.
It's not on their list, but their Grade 8 is about the same as AMEB's grade 7. |
07-02-2009, 12:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Hamilton, VIC | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jgbass Such a beautiful piece. Could you explain what Grade 8 is? Intermediate? Advanced? | Hard to explain..
But, other pieces on the list include Koussevitsky's Chanson Triste, any complete Marcello sonata, any complete Vivaldi, the Eccles sonata, errrm.. the Gigue from Rabbath Book III, the Gigue from Bach suite 2... excerpt from 3rd mvmt of Beethoven's 5th. It's hard to remember.
... so maybe bridging intermediate and advanced?
The next level (Associate Diploma) has the Bottesini Elegy (and it might even have Proto's Sonata 1963). The level below (grade 7) has the Bottesini Reverie.. so it's somewhere between those two.
The ABRSM, which is an international/British equivalent of AMEB, has its syllabus' available for download here.
It's not on their list, but their Grade 8 is about the same as AMEB's grade 7. |
07-02-2009, 12:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Twixt a rock and a hard place | | | Such a beautiful piece. Does anyone else think of old Sherlock Holmes movies when they hear this? Holmes plays it during a scene from one of the old movies. Forget which one..
G. |
07-02-2009, 09:11 AM
| | | THanks for posting this info. Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben Wilkie Hard to explain..
The ABRSM, which is an international/British equivalent of AMEB, has its syllabus' available for download here.
It's not on their list, but their Grade 8 is about the same as AMEB's grade 7. | |
09-19-2009, 12:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Muncie, IN | | | When I try to print the edition from PDML, the pages are cut off.
Is there a way to fix this?
Also, is there any bass version that is not in solo tuning? |
09-20-2009, 11:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | | Make your own
The easiest way to get your own an arrangement of any piece is to just read it from the original. You should already know treble clef.
Sometimes you'll need to photocopy the piano score then cut the solo part off, tape the strips to a sheet then photocopy that. |
09-20-2009, 06:23 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, Ontario | | Wow, listen to DaXun play this piece. |  | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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