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Are there "compilation" books of tuba parts to Concert pieces available anywhere to be had?

I play in a community band, and we finished our Christmas concert, but would like to keep busy practicing every day, which I did when I had a concert to work towards. Now, all I have is a Sousa book of tuba parts, and that is great, but the wife is ready to throw me out of the house!

Seriously, is there such a thing as a tuba part only book of classic concert pieces like...say...Charter Oak? Or Holtz: Suite for Military Band. one would think that if they scan tuba parts, put them in a book, then I could play with Apple Music and keep my chops up.

I am from outer space, but I can find a McDonalds on every corner, how about traditional tuba parts to concert pieces, that I could purchase?

Damn, I'll pay anyone to send me scans of tuba parts the "hung on" to after the concert.

One would think, some tuba player with a heart, put a book together of every piece he has played throughout his life. Google shop offers tuba solos, no, I want parts.

Did this make any sense? Thank for any help you may offer,

YorkMan...

There are three great sources for this:

IMSLP, which has lots of public domain stuff. Holst, Vaughan Williams, orchestral transcriptions, some Hindemith, some Grainger too: https://imslp.org/

Band Music PDF Library, which specializes in turn of the century marches and that sort of thing: https://bandmusicpdf.org/

The Marine Band has also put out a complete new edited edition of all of Sousa's public domain works, which is an awesome resource: https://www.marineband.marines.mil/audi ... lip-sousa/

"Charter Oak" by Eric Osterling (a Connecticut composer and a very Connecticut march, by the way) is unfortunately not in the public domain, but it's a fun little tune.

Let me know if you're looking for anything specific and are having trouble. I'm a librarian by trade so this is well in my wheelhouse.

Thank you Arp! Don't know why a search engine can't find this stuff, therefore I came here. Merry Xmas and Happy Happy New One! Most appreciated!

Adam

Thank you Arp! Don't know why a search engine can't find this stuff, therefore I came here. Merry Xmas and Happy Happy New One! Most appreciated!

Adam

TheYorkSoundMachine wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2024 6:47 pm Are there "compilation" books of tuba parts to Concert pieces available anywhere to be had?

It's not clear if you only want band and not orchestral. If you want orchestral:

https://cherryclassics.com/collections/excerpts

and

https://www.orchmusiclibrary.com/products.php