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A New History of the Double Bass (German) Hardcover – Import, 2000. By Paul Brun (Author) › Visit Amazon's Paul Brun Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. Are you an author?
For you can trust Paul Brun, A New History of the Double Bass The book, ' A New History of the Double Bass' by Paul Brun is a wonderfully insightful and educational reference book. It helps take out some of the mysteries and myths surrounded with the evolution of the upright bass and performance practices. This is a must read for anyone that is dedicated to learning and knowing more about the bass. It's useful for college bass music majors, professional players and should be in every music school reference library. The book is the next best option to an actual Time Machine! ( Order here:.) While there are probably hundreds of books written about the violin, there are only 2 or 3 really to speak of, which are dedicated to the double bass. Brun's book encompasses many facets of the bass' historical background.
1) It begins with all sorts of insights on how the bass was first constructed, the size, and physical descriptions and evolutions: the flat back bass, beveled back, violin form and carved back construction. 2) Genesis of the Double Bass, the historical account of how the bass (as we know it today) became more favored over the plethora of other low pitched 'bass' instruments in the early 1600's and on. How different countries (and regions) had their own needs, influences and performance requirements for the bass. 3) Playing Standards. (I like this part) as kind of a 'take us by time machine' with coverage of the different playing 'schools' and the early stages of the first music written specifically for the bass solo. There was once a bass that was so powerful (and hard to play) that the players had to use leather gloves when they played!
4) The 'Golden Age' of Virtuosity, a great chapter on when and how all the major bass concertos (Vanhal, Dittersdorf, Hoffmeister etc.) and how the changes to the bass helped make it more accessible as a solo instrument. Also covered in this book an in depth historical survey of tunings, the hows and whys we see music written in the 17th or 18th centuries with certain keys and how string numbers and tunings varied so greatly from region to region. Wintrack reviews. There are chapters which document the various sizes of the bass.
The bow: How it evolved to what it is today, as well as regional explanations for underhand (German style) or overhand (French) style playing. He covers extended explanations of the parts of the bass we often take for granted: the bridge, the endpin, frets and strings etc. And lastly some nice biographical backgrounds of the historically well known players (Bottesini) and not so well known players (Antonio Dall'Occa?) that have influenced the way the bass is played today. This is a great book and there is no other like it. It educates and explains how the bass began and how it slowly evolved to what it is today.