Double Bass Solo tuning transposition?

[Anton Avis]

I've got some sheet music for Bottesini's Elegy and it says at the start solo tuning. Does this mean I should play what's written with orchestral tuning? Should I use the solo tuning and play as if it's orchestral tuning? Please tell me what I ought to do.

 

[avantflow]

It means that you play reading the music exactly as written in C major but using solo tuning (bass tuned one tone higher - sounds D major).
The piano score is also written one tone higher to match the tonality.
You can usually find the popular pieces also in orchestral tuning. You will find Elegy in Orch. tuning in
Yorke edition Complete Bottesini Vol. 3.

You could also transpose everything you play one tone higher but it would probably sound bad and would be difficult to play.

 

[gerry grable]

It means that you play reading the music exactly as written in C major but using solo tuning (bass tuned one tone higher - sounds D major).
The piano score is also written one tone higher to match the tonality.
You can usually find the popular pieces also in orchestral tuning. You will find Elegy in Orch. tuning in
Yorke edition Complete Bottesini Vol. 3.

You could also transpose everything you play one tone higher but it would probably sound bad and would be difficult to play.

It means that you play reading the music exactly as written in C major but using solo tuning (bass tuned one tone higher - sounds D major).
The piano score is also written one tone higher to match the tonality.
You can usually find the popular pieces also in orchestral tuning. You will find Elegy in Orch. tuning in
Yorke edition Complete Bottesini Vol. 3.

You could also transpose everything you play one tone higher but it would probably sound bad and would be difficult to play.

Perhaps a silly question, but do bassists who play in fifths tuning ever use solo tuning?

 

[avantflow]

I never played in 5ths but i think not because if you play in 5ths your top string is an A string which is the same as in solo tuning.
If you are interested read what Joel Quarrington wrote on his website about this tuning that he use.