Rachmaninoff — Elegy No.1: Alessandro Serra — PDF Sheet Music

Rachmaninoff — Elegy No.1: Alessandro Serra — PDF Sheet MusicRachmaninoffs Op. 3 Morceaux de fantaisie contains five short pieces for piano, each with a different fantastical mood. Of these, the Elegy is the most sombre and meditative, taking the form of a singing melody in the right hand accompanied by arpeggio patterns. This work, then, adapts itself very well to double bass, and this transcription by Alessandro Serra plays to the instruments strengths, mostly sitting in the warm middle register. Double Bass

With text taken from a poem by Matthias Claudius

5 was written in 2005 in the sunny atmosphere of the Côte d’Azur in France

Full score with annotations by the editor

Intermediate level

and luscious harmonies

and is an important part of the double bass repertoire

in the second

starting with an original introduction before the ‘Carnival of Venice’ tune is heard in eight increasingly complex variations

the lowest part is at an intermediate level with mainly accompaniment

A major for Solo Tuning and G major for Orchestral Tuning

Giovanni Bottesini’s musical career was undoubtedly shaped as much by opera as it was by the double bass — he wrote more than ten operas himself

taking the form of a singing melody in the right hand accompanied by arpeggio patterns