Bruckner: Symphony no. 7, excerpt from IV. Finale

for Tuba Duet

Grade: Advanced

This duet encompasses a large chunk of the fourth movement of Bruckner’s Symphony no. 7 surrounding the standard tuba excerpt from letter P to S. Learning and performing both parts will give you a better sense of how that excerpt fits into the larger scheme of the movement. One of my favorite parts of the whole symphony is the elegant pizzicato bass line accompanying the lyrical melody after the tuba excerpt ends; the intimate simplicity of this section is an incredible release of all the tension built up over several minutes of music directly beforehand.