Category: Online Purchase
Sheet music for unaccompanied solo cello is available for purchase online.
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Sheku’s Take on No Woman, No Cry
Sheku Kanneh-Mason‘s arrangement of Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” is a perfect example of the vision we advocate for here at Project BachWroteWhat. At just 19, he he transformed a reggae classic by the reggae legend into a Baroque self-accompanied cello piece, and breathed reggae soul back into the music.
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Song of the Birds
In addition to rescuing Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites, Pablo Casals is also well-remembered for bringing Song of the Birds to international fame. After his exile following the Spanish Civil War, he performed Song of the Birds at each of his concerts as a protest against Franco’s fascist regime. In time, this song came to symbolize the plight of refugees around the world.
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Barokan Farewell
You’ve heard Ashokan Farewell even if you don’t think you know it. You’ve heard it in a TV show, a film, or a documentary about the Civil War. Chances are, if someone played you the first bar, you could hum the rest. What if one were to write a somewhat Baroque-sounding variation of Ashokan Farewell, as a self-accompanied cello music?
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Tunes Recomposed by Gabriel Martins
Cellist Gabriel Martins have been recomposing tunes from the past written for other instruments into new arrangements suitable for self-accompanied cello. His inspirations include Romantic solo piano, Irish harp music, Baroque work for viola da gamba, and more. Free sheet music is freely-downloadable from his website gabrielmartinscello.com.
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Afghan Song Now Banned
Cellist and conductor Dan Allcott rearranged a popular Afghan song, “Bia ke borem ba Mazar”, previously performed by his friend William Harvey on the violin, for the cello, self-accompanied. The title of the song means: “Let’s go to the lover city of Mazar-e-Sharif”. When played unaccompanied thus on a solo string instrument, the tune sounds even more haunting and exotic than voiced versions. Songs like this are now banned in Afghanistan, since the Taliban took over.
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Inch Strand by Ilse de Ziah
Ilse de Ziah is an Irish-Australian cellist who composes and rearranges cello music. She published several collections of music for unaccompanied solo cello. Inch Strand is a good example of her own composition. It is written in the style of traditional Irish airs which are well represented in her collections of unaccompanied solo cello work. Sheet music for Inch Strand can be purchased online as part of the Irish Airs For Solo Cello eBook, a great collection of unaccompanied solo music that introduces a cellist to new techniques to bring out both body and color of Irish airs.
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Gabriel’s Oboe per Ilse de Ziah
Ilse de Ziah is an Irish-Australian cellist who composes and rearranges cello music. She published several collections of music for unaccompanied solo cello. The rearranged Gabriel’s Oboe is a good example of her work for unaccompanied solo cello. Sheet music for Gabriel’s Oboe can be purchased online as part of the Wedding Music for Solo Cello, a great collection of unaccompanied solo music that allows a single cellist to project powerful music throughout an entire wedding.