Double-Bass Notebook

Orin O'Brien

Highly-esteemed pedagogue and virtuoso Orin O’Brien offers alifetime of insight in her acclaimed String-Bass Notebook: Ideas, Tipsand Pointers for the Complete Professional. Originally only availablethrough special orders and by word-of-mouth, Carl Fischer isproud to premiere an updated and newly typeset edition of thisindispensable tool. This volume draws together musical examplesand intuitive texts which O’Brien has integrated as an essential partof her teaching studio. Works spanning from Zimmermann andSimandl to articles from contemporary colleagues form a strong anddefinitive compendium. Practical advice is given on topics such aspracticing and learning the instrument, as well as professional adviceon auditioning and repertoire. As a groundbreaking performer (firstfemale section-member of the New York Philharmonic), O’Briencontinues to nurture as an author and teacher. This volume is, asDonald Palma writes in the foreword, “a sharing of valuable resourcesfrom our past and present, resources that can help to make us betterperformers, better artists, and help us reconnect to our traditions.”

Publisher: Carl Fischer Music

Instrumentation: Double Bass

Pages: 96

UPC: 798408088835

ISBN: 9780825888830

Item No: BF112