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Cello sheet music
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Cello editions carry more editorial decision-making than most, because bowing, fingering and — for the Bach suites especially — the underlying text itself are contested. Which edition you buy genuinely changes what you play.
The listing below covers unaccompanied cello, cello with piano, chamber parts and study material. Where an edition states its instrumentation we surface it on the result.
Ignacy Krzyżanowski - 2 Nocturnes, Op.50
- Piano
- Organ
- Cello
Arranged by Don Miller - As Lately We Watched
- Piano
- Cello
- violin
Dona Nobis Pacem
- Cello
- Choir
- Flexible Instrument
Deck the Halls (Trad.)
- Cello
- violin
- Voice High
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn/Cummings)
- Cello
- Flute
- violin
3. Sarabande
- Piano
- Cello
- violin
4. Mazurka
- Piano
- Cello
- violin
2. Adagio
- Piano
- Cello
- violin
2. Fuga
- Organ
- Cello
9. Allegro
- Organ
- Cello
Away In A Manger
- Cello
- Flute
- violin
Jingle Bells
- Cello
- Flute
- violin
What Child Is This?
- Cello
- Flute
- violin
1. Preludio e Fuga; Fuga a 4 voci
- Cello
- violin
2. Serenade
- Cello
- violin
3. Les Vendredis (Sokolov, Glazunov, Liadov)
- Cello
- violin
4. Menuet
- Piano
- Cello
- violin
5. Canon
- Cello
- violin
6. Berceuse
- Cello
- violin
9. Scherzo
- Cello
- violin
2. Two Christmas Spirituals (Trad.)
- Cello
- violin
5. The First Nowell (Trad.)
- Cello
- violin
A midsummer night's dream: Wedding march (Mendelssohn)
- Cello
- violin
- Trumpet
The marriage of Figaro: March (Mozart)
- Cello
- violin
Air in F (Handel)
- Cello
- violin
Cantata 208: Sheep may safely graze
- Cello
- violin
Greensleeves (trad.)
- Cello
- violin
- Trumpet
Panis Angelicus (Franck)
- Cello
- violin
Prayer (Wolf)
- Cello
- violin
Puis Qu'Aultrement Ne Me Peut / Marchez, Ladureau
- Cello
- violin
- Voice
Sans Jamais De Riens / Allez a La Fougere
- Cello
- violin
- Voice
Quant Je Suis Seulette / Quant Je Suis Seulette
- Cello
- violin
- Voice
Puisqu'a Chascun Ris / Pardonnez Moy / L'Autrier M'Aloie
- Cello
- violin
- Voice
D'Une Belle Josne Fille / Coquille, Bobille
- Cello
- violin
- Voice
Introduction (Welcome To The World Of Fiddling Fingers)
- Cello
- Viola
Lesson No. 1 (Boil Them Cabbage Down - Lead Sheet)
- Cello
- Viola
Lesson No. 2
- Cello
- Viola
Lesson No. 3
- Cello
- Viola
Lesson No. 4 (Old Joe Clark - Lead Sheet)
- Cello
- Viola
Lesson No. 5 (Dry And Dusty - Lead Sheet)
- Cello
- Viola
Lesson 6: Ending Tunes With Tags (Road To Boston - Lead Sheet)
- Cello
Glossary of Fiddling Tunes
- Cello
6. Courante (Glasunov)
- Cello
- Piano
7. Polka
- Cello
Quartettino, op. 40, no. 1
- Cello
Quartettino, op. 40, no. 4 / Luigi Boccherini
- Cello
Quartet in F major / Florian Leopold Gassmann
- Cello
Quartet, op. 7, no. 1 / Friedrich Schwindel
- Cello
Buying guide
What to know before you buy
Clefs, and why a page suddenly looks wrong
Cello music uses three clefs. Bass clef is the default. Tenor clef appears for higher passages to avoid ledger lines, and treble clef for higher still. Editions switch between them mid-piece without warning, and a passage that looks impossibly high is usually a clef change you have missed.
Older editions sometimes notate treble-clef passages an octave higher than they sound, following a nineteenth-century convention. Modern editions do not. This is a real source of confusion when reading a free public-domain scan alongside a modern one.
The Bach suites are a special case
No autograph manuscript of the six suites survives. Everything published descends from copies, of which Anna Magdalena Bach's is the most important, and those copies disagree about slurs in particular. The result is that editions differ substantially — some present a clean scholarly text, others a fully bowed performing version, and they are not reconcilable.
There is no single right answer, but there is a wrong purchase: buying a heavily marked edition when your teacher works from a scholarly one, or vice versa. Ask before buying, and treat the free scans — which are almost all old performing editions — as one voice among several rather than the text.
Method books and graded repertoire
Suzuki, the exam-board graded albums, and the standard studies — Dotzauer, Popper, Duport — make up most cello purchasing. The studies are out of copyright and freely available. The graded albums are not, and they are worth buying new because syllabi change and the current volume is the one your exam requires.
Common questions
- Why does cello music change clef?
- To avoid ledger lines. Bass clef is the default; tenor and treble clefs appear for higher passages. Editions switch without warning, so a passage that looks unplayably high is usually a clef change.
- Which edition of the Bach cello suites should I buy?
- It depends on what you want. No autograph survives, so editions differ genuinely — scholarly texts present the sources with minimal intervention, performing editions supply a complete set of bowings. If you are studying with a teacher, buy the one they use.
- Does cello music come with the piano part?
- Only when the listing says so. Sonatas and concerti are sold both as a full edition with piano and as the cello part alone, at noticeably different prices.