Category: Advanced Cellists
Unaccompanied solo cello music suitable for folks who have been playing the cello for much more than several years
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Ten American Cello Etudes by Aaron Minsky
Ten American Cello Etudes by Aaron Minsky is a one-of-a-kind collection of cello etudes. In this groundbreaking 1988 collection, Minsky laid out a roadmap for generations of classical cellists to come, showing how the instrument could break free from its dignified traditional role and enter the contemporary American rock-and-roll era.
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Fantasy on Yesterday by David Johnstone
Here is a stunning fantasy on McCartney’s Yesterday for self-accompanied cello, written and performed by David Johnstone, a truly one-of-a-kind cellist and composer. Johnstone’s website makes thousand-plus pieces of cello sheet music available, free of charge, including this Fantasy on Yesterday.
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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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The Chaconne In Cello’s Range
Bach’s Chaconne from Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 for Solo Violin is so great, it is simply known as “The Chaconne”. Some brave cellist rearrange this great music to be played in a cello’s natural range, transposed down a fifth to G minor. This is the same spirit that our project “Bach Wrote What?!” embraces. Instead of boxing Bach’s music in, we should expand it as we see fit, to best render it for this moment.
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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.