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Rossi: 35 Selected Studies for String Bass.(Brief article)(Book review)

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Rossi: 35 Selected Studies For String Bass, edited by Thomas Martin. International Music Co. (5 W. 37th St., New York, NY 10018), 2005. 67 pp.

If you are an advanced bass player, equally adept with the treble clef as with the bass def, then you need to know this collection of etudes--if you aren't already aware of it. Likewise, if you aspire to become an advanced bass player, this collection is a "must have." Rossi: 35 Selected Studies For String Bass is an easy-to-read, well-organized collection.

Thomas Martin has edited for contemporary publication these 35 studies collected by Luigi Rossi, a mid-19th-century professor at the Milan Conservatory and teacher of the famous bassist, Giovanni Bottesini. Note that this Rossi is not Luigi Rossi, the 17th-century Roman organist and composer of two operas, numerous songs and more than 300 cantatas.

Martin is a former principal bassist with the ...

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