Bach - Partita BWV 1013 for Solo Tuba or Bass Trombone Solo You may watch a small

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The work for advanced performers is 5 minutes in length and has five slow sections and three fast sections alternating throughout

Lalo studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Berlioz's old enemy François Antoine Habeneck

gradually building up intensity in speed and volume right up to the end of the work

which lays perfectly for all of the "bird-like" calls that are in phrases which are slurred

Bach - Partita BWV 1013 for Solo Tuba or Bass Trombone Solo You may watch a smallBach's Partita BWV 1013 is a wonderful unaccompanied work and was, in all likelihood, written for the Transverse Flute, though that is by no means certain. In fact, there is an earlier version of the Allemande for a keyboard or stringed instrument. The Partita, originally in the key of A minor has been transposed down into G minor, putting it into a perfect range for Tuba or Bass Trombone. The work is in four movements: Allemande, Corrente, Sarabande