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Piano,Tuba - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.767075 Composed by Mike Lyons. Contemporary,Standards. Score and part. 24 pages. Lyons Music Services #515941. Published by Lyons Music Services (A0.767075). A new solo repertoire piece for tuba. This piece has been several years in the writing, as I have been reluctant to scribble for my own instrument, but here it is. It opens with a semi recitative section on the Tuba on which most of the rest of the piece is based. I love writing contrapuntal music, and am strongly influenced here by J. S. Bach, but I also love Vaughan Williams and have played his Tuba Concerto many times. The piano then takes the lead in a fugato section in which the tuba adds to the counterpoint, covering most of its range. The faster section which follows is a joyful (but still largely contrapuntal) exclamation by the tuba, leaping wildly about in pure unadulterated fun. The fugato ideas return before the tuba launches into another motif, slightly wistful, but at the same time aggressive but this morphs into the fugato material again, which is taken over by the piano before the final chord dies away over a reminder of the fugato. This is an exciting new addition to the tuba repertoire which would make a great addition to a recital or concert programme. Parts are available for Tuba (BC) Eb Bass (TC) Piano and a piano part with the tuba cued above. This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters. ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of popular titles and original compositions from a variety of voices and backgrounds. The length, difficulty, and retail pricing are determined solely by the discretion of the person who arranged or composed it. About Digital Downloads Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play! PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).