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198199 https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.2.N.198199 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ All Rights Reserved 2024 101 pages Doctoral Dissertation Academic theses Text eng Pardi, Evan Rotaru, Catalin Rockmaker, Jody Landschoot, Thomas Arizona State University Partial requirement for: D.M.A., Arizona State University, 2024 Field of study: Music The International Ernest Bloch Society often calls Ernest Bloch “The Fourth ‘B’ Composer,” adding to the current group of -Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Double bass players often look to these “B” composers for works for our instrument. Most notably Bach’s Cello Suites have become standard repertoire for nearly every bass player and are often required on auditions throughout the world. Bass players frequently take solo cello works and perform them on the double bass. This arrangement of Bloch’s Cello Suite No. 1 gives the double bass community a 20th-century example of a solo cello suite to add to our growing canon of works. This document will provide context for the influences on Bloch as he wrote this solo suite near the end of his life. The paper will first assess events in Bloch’s professional and personal life from his time in Switzerland, his teaching appointment at the University of California, and finally, his last quiet years memorizing Bach on the beaches of Oregon’s rugged, primordial coastline. The paper will consider an original primary source document never seen from Bloch’s personal papers. where the composer wrote out a work by Bach that suggests a keen interest in Bach at the time of the suite’s genesis. The paper will analyze the entire work and includes a color-coded guide to all the motives. Finally, the double bass arrangement is provided with a detailed description of alterations from the original published cello version. All edited measures are listed with notes provided that detail the reasons for the edits. The double bass edition also provides suggested fingerings. Music Music History Music theory Bloch Double bass Ernest Bloch Newport Oregon Zara Nelsova Ernest Bloch’s Cello Suite No. 1: A Contextualization, Analysis, and Double Bass Arrangement