Tuba
instruments | repertoire | brass | tuba
Repertoire examples for Tuba, based on recommendations from orchestration treatises and college syllabi.
KENNAN AND GRANTHAM (2002, P. 161), THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION.
Suggested listening for Tuba. Playlist available here on Spotify.
Wagner, Siegfried, beginning of Act II.
Mahler, First Symphony, beginning of 3rd movt.
Mussorgsky-Ravel, Pictures at an Exhibition, beginning of Part 4 (“Bydlo”).
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.
Prokofiev, Fifth Symphony, 1st movt. at figure 3 and throughout. Gershwin, An American in Paris, after figure 67.
Revueltas, Sensemaya, figure 2.
Shostakovich, First Symphony, 3rd movt., before figures 7 and 20. Davies, St. Thomas Wake, meas. 136-150.
