Tuba

Repertoire examples for Tuba, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.

Recommended Listenings

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The Technique of Orchestration

Suggested listening for Tuba. Playlist available here on Spotify.

Davies, St. Thomas Wake, meas. 136-150.
Gershwin, An American in Paris, after figure 67.
Mahler, First Symphony, beginning of 3rd movt.
Mussorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition, beginning of Part 4 (“Bydlo”).
Prokofiev, Fifth Symphony, 1st movt. at figure 3 and throughout.
Revueltas, Sensemaya, figure 2.
Shostakovich, First Symphony, 3rd movt., before figures 7 and 20.
Strauss, Don Quixote, figure 3 (muted tubas), figure 9, etc. (This work illustrates the use of both tenor and bass tubas.)
Stravinsky, Petrouchka, 2 bars after figure 100.
Wagner, Siegfried, beginning of Act II.

The Study of Orchestration

Tuba:

Berlioz, Benvenuto Cellini, Overture, [18]-[19] (very high tuba part)
Chávez, Symphony No. 6, third movement, beginning
Gershwin, An American in Paris, 4 mm. after [67] to [68]
Respighi, Fountains of Rome, fourth movement, [11]-[14]
Respighi, Pines of Rome, last movement, 4 mm. before [21] (trombones, horns, trumpets, tuba)
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 1, third movement, 3 to 4 mm. after [6]
Stravinsky, Petrushka, Fourth Tableau, "Dance of the Peasant and the Bear"

Tenor Tuba:

Bruckner, Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 (throughout)
Rouse, Symphony No. 1 (throughout)
Schoenberg, Gurrelieder (throughout)
Strauss, Elektra and Alpine Symphony (throughout)
Stravinsky, Le Sacre du printemps (throughout)
Wagner, The Ring Cycle, especially Siegfried, Act III, Prelude, and Götterdämmerung, Act I, scene 1 (directly after the Prelude)

Euphonium