The Music listed below makes up the bulk of what
I use in my Bass Lessons, my Bass Teaching"Method"
Michael and Lourdes Montgomery’s
Published Bass Music
Click on the Title Links to Purchase
Most of this Music is recorded (links below) on my YouTube Channel
Bass Solos:
Six Open String Solos for Bass and Piano (Grade 1 - beginners) | YouTube Video
Story Book Friends: 10 Easy Duets for bass\piano (Grade 1) - Videos: Snowman | Hippopatami |Lion's Roar| Manatee | Scaredy Cat | Camel | Jack in Box | Caterpillar | Scarecrow | Crocodile Island |
32 Folk Songs for the Young Double Bassist (Grade 1-6) Videos: #21 Simple Gifts
6 Easy Pieces for Double Bass and Piano (Gr 1-2) Videos:
| Gaby | Teo | Natalie | Isaac | Magy | Seth |
Five Musical Miniatures for the Young Bassist – Bass\Piano (Grade 2-3) Videos:
| Wooden Soldier | Daydreaming | The Storm | Tropical Dance | Ozark Mountain Fun |
Sketches of an Expedition for Bass and Piano (Grade 3-5) Videos: Mighty Mississippi | Plains Indians | Sacagawea | Continental Divide | Columbia River | Pacific Coast |
Prayer for Double Bass and Piano (Grade 3-5) Video: YouTube
Reflections for Bass and Piano (Grade 3) | Fur Daniela | Scarborough | Humoresque |
Who's on 1st? for Bass & Strings -or- Bass & Piano (Grade 4) | Video
Isaac’s Concertino for Bass and Strings -or- Bass & Piano (Grade 5) | Video
|-or- Both Who's on 1st & Concertino as Two Double Bass Quartets
Hispanic Dances for double bass & piano (Grade 4-6) Videos:
| Guaguanco | Huapango|
| Acambaro |
Calle Ocho | Colla Tempestada |
Heroes Suite for double bass & piano (Grade 5-8) Videos: | Babe | Gamer | Papi |
("Gamer" is also available with String Orchestra Accompaniment)
New Orleans Nights unaccompanied bass (Grade 6) | Bourbon St | Decatur St | Royal St | St. Charles Av | Dauphine St |Rampart St | State Street | Jackson Square |
Celebrations Book 5 for unaccompanied double bass (Grade 6-8)| To Posta | Sage |
| Guardians | Mentors | Youth | Teppo | Helsinki | Baltic Sea | Icebreakers | Sveaborg |
Celebrations Book 1: 9 Pieces for unaccompanied bass (Gr 7-9) | Introspectionism | Perspectives| | Eight for 80 | Evening Walk | Milestones | Stages | Syrinx | da Vinci | Shape of Clouds | extra: Horizons |
TBA) Concertino for Bass and String Quintet (Grade 8)
Bass Quartets and Ensembles:
New Heights Bass Duets (Grade 2-5) Videos: Goat of Rockies | The Vole |
Songs from the Ozarks bass quartet and db & piano (Grade 5-8) at 2015 Bass Camp
Giants & Gods: Five Quartets (Grade 3-4) | Gargantua | Harmonia | Belugas | Luna | Gibralta |
Antarctica Suite (and here) for double bass quartet (Grade 4-5) | Orca | Totten | Penguin | Antarctica | Garden
Ten Double Bass Quartets (Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, etc., Gr 7) | Minuet 114 | March | Minuet in d |
Christmas Carols for Double Bass Quartet (Grade 5-8) | Videos: Angels We Have Heard | Hark the Herald Angels Sing | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen |
Four Mexican Folk Tunes for Double Bass Quartet (Grade 5)
Twenty Folk Tunes for Bass Quartet (Grade 1-4) | Video: Old McDonald Video
A Day in the Ozarks for Bass Quartet (Grade 4-5) Videos:
| I. Forest Meadow | II. Cumulonimbus | III. Eventide | IV. The Way Home |
A Celtic Suite for Bass Quartet (Grade 3-5) | Druids | – soon to shop.doublebasshq.com
Songs of Old Mexico for Bass Quartet (Grade 5-8) | Jarabe Tapatio | – soon to shop.doublebasshq.com
The Crimean Coast Double Bass Quartet | Performance at 2018 Bass Camp –
Not Yet Published:
Danzon Cubano for Double Bass and Piano
Punto Guajiro for Double Bass and Flute
Vocalise for Double Bass and Soprano
Other Chamber Music:
String Quintets of Boccherini, Schubert and Onslow - Bass Parts (Level: 6-8)
Razorback Victory Junior String Orchestra. (Difficulty level: 1-2)
Alice in Wonderland for Piano and Strings (Difficulty Level: 1)
Lourdes Montgomery published compositions at
OCP.org
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