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String Builder for Violin, Book 3

sku Product SKU:  EL01556

Book 3. A String Class Method (for Class or Individual Instruction) - Violin. Composed by Samuel Applebaum. String Orchestra Method/Supplement. Belwin Course for Strings. Book. 32 pages.

The Belwin String Builder is a string class method in which the violin, viola, cello, and bass play together throughout. Each book, however, is a complete unit and may be used separately for class or individual instruction. The material in this book is realistically graded so that only a minimum of explanatory material is required. Each melody is interesting and will provide the basis for a fine left hand technic and bow arm. Available in three levels for violin, viola, cello, bass, piano accompaniment, and teacher's manual.

Contents:

The Third Position---Finding the Fingers on the G and D Strings
Finding the Fingers on the A and E Strings
From One String to Another in the Third Position
More Melodies from One String to Another
Melodies in C Major That Include the Third Position
We Go from an Open String to the Second Finger in the Third Position
Melodies That Shift To and From the Third Position with the Same Finger
More Melodies That Shift with the Same Finger
The Scale Line Shift
Melodies That Shift To and From the Third Position with Different Fingers
More Melodies That Shift with Different Fingers
How to Shift When There Is No Slur
How to Build a Minor Scale
Melodies in Minor Keys
More Melodies in Minor Keys
The Wrist and Finger Stroke
Sixteenth Notes
The Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Note
More Melodies with Dotted Eighth and Sixteenth Notes
Melodies Using the Martelé Bowing
Melodies with Double Stops
More Melodies with Double Stops
A New Rhythm---Triplets
We Build a Major Scale on the Note A
Melodies in Various Rhythms
We Build a Major Scale on the Note E Flat
How to Play Harmonics
Beautiful Melodies with Harmonics
Melodies That Will Prepare for the Spiccato Stroke
How to Play the Spiccato Stroke
Lively Melodies Using the Spiccato Stroke

USD 6.9900

Beautiful Music For Two String Instruments, Cello Book 2

sku Product SKU:  EL02213

Beautiful Music for Two String Instruments, by Samuel Applebaum. Volume 2, for two cellos. Both parts on the same page. Can be used with any of the Beautiful Music Volumes 1 to create duets for cello/ viola or cello/ violin.

The study of string instruments should include ensemble playing at the earliest possible stage. There is much to be gained from the playing of duets. Each player learns how to listen to the other, and in a short time develops an awareness of balance, musical phrasing, intonation, and tone quality. This type of training is excellent preparation for participation in large groups. These four volumes of duets for two violins will help fill the need for early ensemble experience in the public schools. They should be used in string classes as a supplement to any of the standard string methods. They will also encourage music making outside of the school, with parents or with other students. These duets are ideal for recitals in the public schools and in public school festivals. They may be played by two performers, or by multiple performers on each part, with or without piano accompaniment.

USD 7.9500

Beautiful Music For Two String Instruments, Cello Book 3

sku Product SKU:  EL02224

Beautiful Music for Two String Instruments, by Samuel Applebaum. Volume 3, for two cellos. Both parts on the same page. Can be used with any of the Beautiful Music Volumes 1 to create duets for cello/ viola or cello/ violin.

The study of string instruments should include ensemble playing at the earliest possible stage. There is much to be gained from the playing of duets. Each player learns how to listen to the other, and in a short time develops an awareness of balance, musical phrasing, intonation, and tone quality. This type of training is excellent preparation for participation in large groups. These four volumes of duets for two violins will help fill the need for early ensemble experience in the public schools. They should be used in string classes as a supplement to any of the standard string methods. They will also encourage music making outside of the school, with parents or with other students. These duets are ideal for recitals in the public schools and in public school festivals. They may be played by two performers, or by multiple performers on each part, with or without piano accompaniment.

USD 7.9500

Beautiful Music For Two String Instruments, Viola Book 3

sku Product SKU:  EL02223

Beautiful Music for Two String Instruments, for 2 violas, by Samuel Applebaum. Both parts on the same page. Published by Belwin Mills.

The study of string instruments should include ensemble playing at the earliest possible stage. There is much to be gained from the playing of duets. Each player learns how to listen to the other, and in a short time develops an awareness of balance, musical phrasing, intonation, and tone quality. This type of training is excellent preparation for participation in large groups. These four volumes of duets for two violas will help fill the need for early ensemble experience in the public schools. They should be used in string classes as a supplement to any of the standard string methods. They will also encourage music-making outside of the school, with parents or with other students. These duets are ideal for recitals in the public schools and in public school festivals. they may be played by two performers, or by multiple performers on each part, with or without piano accompaniment. 

USD 7.9500

Beautiful Music for Two Strings Instruments, Viola Book 4

sku Product SKU:  EL02227

Beautiful Music for Two String Instruments, for 2 violas, by Samuel Applebaum. Both parts on the same page. Published by Belwin Mills.

The study of string instruments should include ensemble playing at the earliest possible stage. There is much to be gained from the playing of duets. Each player learns how to listen to the other, and in a short time develops an awareness of balance, musical phrasing, intonation, and tone quality. This type of training is excellent preparation for participation in large groups. These four volumes of duets for two violas will help fill the need for early ensemble experience in the public schools. They should be used in string classes as a supplement to any of the standard string methods. They will also encourage music-making outside of the school, with parents or with other students. These duets are ideal for recitals in the public schools and in public school festivals. they may be played by two performers, or by multiple performers on each part, with or without piano accompaniment. 

USD 7.9500

Beautiful Music For Two String Instruments, Cello Book 4

sku Product SKU:  EL02228

Beautiful Music for Two String Instruments, by Samuel Applebaum. Volume 3, for two cellos. Both parts on the same page. Can be used with any of the Beautiful Music Volumes 1 to create duets for cello/ viola or cello/ violin.

The study of string instruments should include ensemble playing at the earliest possible stage. There is much to be gained from the playing of duets. Each player learns how to listen to the other, and in a short time develops an awareness of balance, musical phrasing, intonation, and tone quality. This type of training is excellent preparation for participation in large groups. These four volumes of duets for two violins will help fill the need for early ensemble experience in the public schools. They should be used in string classes as a supplement to any of the standard string methods. They will also encourage music making outside of the school, with parents or with other students. These duets are ideal for recitals in the public schools and in public school festivals. They may be played by two performers, or by multiple performers on each part, with or without piano accompaniment.

USD 7.9500

Bartok: 18 Duos for 2 Cellos (from 44 Duos for 2 Violins)

sku Product SKU:  HL48003046

 Chamber Music. Duet, Contemporary, Classical. 16 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes 

Contents:

  • Wedding Song (Bartok) 
  • Dance (Bartok) 
  • Hungarian Song (Bartok) 
  • Teasing Song (Bartok) 
  • Play (Bartok) 
  • Midsummer Night Song (Bartok) 
  • Cushion Dance (Bartok) 
  • Rumanian Song (Bartok) 
  • Ruthenian Song (Bartok) 
  • Slovak Dance (Bartok) 
  • Mosquito Dance (Bartok) 
  • Lullaby (Bartok) 
  • Menuetto (Bartok) 
  • New Year's Greeting (Bartok) 
  • A Fairy Tale (Bartok) 
  • Hay Harvesting Song (Bartok) 
  • Ruthenian Kolowejka (Bartok) 

USD 14.9900

Bartok: 44 Duos for 2 Violins arranged for Viola, Vol 1

sku Product SKU:  HL48005190

  • Teasing Song 
  • Maypole Dance 
  • Midsummer Night Song 
  • Slovakian Song (1) 
  • Hungarian Song (1) 
  • Walachian Song 
  • Slovakian Song (2) 
  • Play Song 
  • Ruthenian Song 
  • Cradle Song 
  • Hay Song 
  • Wedding Song 
  • Pillow Dance 
  • Soldier's Song 
  • Burlesque 
  • Hungarian March (1) 
  • Hungarian March (2) 
  • A Fairy Tale 
  • A Rhythm Song 
  • New Year's Song 
  • Mosquito Dance 
  • Bride's Farewell 
  • Comic Song 
  • Hungarian Song (2) 

USD 15.9900

Bartok: 44 Duos for 2 Violins arranged for Viola, Vol 2

sku Product SKU:  HL48005191

  • Teasing Song 
  • Maypole Dance 
  • Midsummer Night Song 
  • Slovakian Song (1) 
  • Hungarian Song (1) 
  • Walachian Song 
  • Slovakian Song (2) 
  • Play Song 
  • Ruthenian Song 
  • Cradle Song 
  • Hay Song 
  • Wedding Song 
  • Pillow Dance 
  • Soldier's Song 
  • Burlesque 
  • Hungarian March (1) 
  • Hungarian March (2) 
  • A Fairy Tale 
  • A Rhythm Song 
  • New Year's Song 
  • Mosquito Dance 
  • Bride's Farewell 
  • Comic Song 
  • Hungarian Song (2) 

USD 15.9900

The Greek Fiddler

sku Product SKU:  HL48019805

Fiddle, Violin
For Violin with Optional Easy Violin and Guitar. Arranged by Edward Huws Jones. 44 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

The latest addition to the best-selling Fiddler series focuses on the rich, diverse and pure folk tradition of Greece. A wide variety of styles is presented, featuring music from Crete, the Peloponnese, the Balkans, Asia Minor and mainland Greece. Exciting rhythms and interesting modes combine to produce high spirited pieces, some of which will already be familiar to lovers of Greek culture world-wide. Flexible arrangements for violin and piano with optional easy violin, violin accompaniment, and chord symbols. Includes 17 pieces.

USD 16.9900

The Gypsy Fiddler

sku Product SKU:  HL48011959

Fiddle, Violin

Violin Part Only. Composed and arranged by Edward Huws Jones. Published by Boosey & Hawkes. 32 pages. 9x12 inches..

Contents: Song of the ghetto • Dance • Slow leaping dance • Fast csardas • Shall I, Shan't I • Dangling dance • Dance Melody I • Dance Melody II • Dance Melody III • Song • The silver leaves of the poplar tree • The four corners of my handkerchief • Would you tell that girl? • On the waves of Lake Balaton • I've danced my boots off.

USD 16.9900

Jigs, Reels & More for Cello

sku Product SKU:  HL48012078

Composed by Edward Huws Jones. Arranged by Huws Jones. 9x12 inches.

Piano accompaniment available with HL48012042

Contents: Hunting the Hare • Country Gardens • Galopede • Parson's Farewell • The Oyster Girl • The Trumpet Hornpipe • The Fairy Dance • The Keel Row • Sir Roger de Coverley • The Girl I Left Behind Me • Lannigan's Ball • The Temperance Reel • The Irish Washerwoman • Cooney's Reel • Danny Boy • The Fox Hunter's Jig • Drowsy Maggie • From the New Country • Harvest Home • Star of the County Down • The Gay Gordons • Skye Boat Song • Lord MacDonald's Reel • Brochan Lom • Mary, Young and Fair • Timour the Tartar • Mrs. Jamieson's Favourite • Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston • Mrs. Hamilton of Pencaitland • De'il among the Tailors.

USD 16.9900

Jigs, Reels & Hornpipes for Violin w/ CD

sku Product SKU:  HL48023136

Violin Edition with CD.Composed by Edward Huws Jones. Arranged by Huws Jones. Classical, English, Folk, Irish, Scottish. 9x12 inches.

The complete edition includes a violin part, keyboard accompaniment with optional violin accompaniment, easy violin part and guitar chords. The violin edition includes violin solo with optional easy violin and guitar accompaniments. CD includes full performance and backing tracks.

Contents: Hunting the Hare • Country Gardens • Galopede • Parson's Farewell • The Oyster Girl • The Trumpet Hornpipe • The Fairy Dance • The Keel Row • Sir Roger de Coverley • The Girl I Left Behind Me • Lannigan's Ball • The Temperance Reel • The Irish Washerwoman • Cooney's Reel • Danny Boy • The Fox Hunter's Jig • Drowsy Maggie • From the New Country • Harvest Home • Star of the County Down • The Gay Gordons • Skye Boat Song • Lord MacDonald's Reel • Brochan Lom • Mary, Young and Fair • Timour the Tartar • Mrs. Jamieson's Favourite • Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston • Mrs. Hamilton of Pencaitland • De'il among the Tailors.

USD 19.9900

The Latin American Fiddler for Violin Solo

sku Product SKU:  HL48012248

 

  • Quiznas, quiznas, quiznas (Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps)
  • Tico-tico no fuba (Bird in the cornmeal) 
  • Cielito lindo (Little heavenly one) 
  • Takirari • La engañadora (The swindler) 
  • El condor pasa (The Flight of the Condor)  
  • La cucaracha (The cockroach) 
  • Apanhei-te, cavaquinho (I've got you, cavaquinho)
  • Vamos pastorcitos (Come, shepherds)
  •  Flor de Yumuri (The Flower of Yumuri)
  •  Estes indiferent (You are indifferent)
  •  La Bamba.

With optional easy violin and guitar. Arranged by Edward Huws Jones. Published by Boosey & Hawkes.

 

USD 16.9900

Bartok: 44 Duets for Two Violins, Vol. 1

sku Product SKU:  HL48002993

  • Teasing Song 
  • Maypole Dance 
  • Midsummer Night Song 
  • Slovakian Song (1) 
  • Hungarian Song (1) 
  • Walachian Song 
  • Slovakian Song (2) 
  • Play Song 
  • Ruthenian Song 
  • Cradle Song 
  • Hay Song 
  • Wedding Song 
  • Pillow Dance 
  • Soldier's Song 
  • Burlesque 
  • Hungarian March (1) 
  • Hungarian March (2) 
  • A Fairy Tale 
  • A Rhythm Song 
  • New Year's Song 
  • Mosquito Dance 
  • Bride's Farewell 
  • Comic Song 
  • Hungarian Song (2) 

USD 14.9900

Bartok: 44 Duets for Two Violins, Volume 2

sku Product SKU:  HL48002994

USD 12.9900

The Ceilidh Collection for Violin Solo w/CD

sku Product SKU:  HL48011622

Violin Part Only. Contemporary, Classical. 36 pages. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (HL48011622). 9x12 inches. Softcover with CD.

Edward Huws Jones' popular series of traditional fiddle repertoire, now available with expertly-recorded audio CD. Containing colorful instrumental backing tracks and full demonstrations, the new audio resource will aid and inspire your private practice and public performance alike. These generous collections of authentic music, some familiar, some more exotic, but all of it faithfully arranged, enable you to create your own ceilidh, bluegrass club or charanga band. The violin edition includes optional easy violin part and guitar chords, while the complete edition also includes both keyboard and violin accompaniments. Either format is highly flexible, which means the music can be played as solos, duets or trios as well as with larger ensembles.

Edwards Huws Jones has travelled extensively researching fiddle-playing traditions. In each book he explains the background of the particular musical style, giving his own suggestions for a lively performance.

USD 19.9900

Sevcik: School of Bowing Technique, Op. 2, Part 1

sku Product SKU:  HL14029799

An excellent set of bowing exercises that will help all violinists to develop their bowing styles, speed, control and rhythms.

Since 1901, Otakar Sevcik's works have formed the basis of many schools of string playing around the world. Thousands of players continue to find Sevcik an invaluable aid to technical development. In practicing Sevcik, as in playing scales, etudes, or pieces there are always four main headings to consider: purity of intonation, evenness of tone, exactness of rhythm and physical freedom and ease.

 44 pages. 9x12 inches.

 

USD 11.9500

Sevcik: 40 Variations, Op.3

sku Product SKU:  HL14029831

Violin
Composed by Ottakar Sevcik (1852-1934). Sevcik Violin Studies/ Method Book. 20 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Bosworth & Co.

Otakar Sevick was a Czech musician and violin teacher who wrote many studies, methods and teaching tools. Many of which are still important today. For instance his violin methods are still useful a century later and his studies remain second to none.

This volume of 40 studies for right-hand technique includes exercises in string-crossing, arpeggios, triplets, changing bowing styles, staccato playing, legato playing and more.

USD 11.9900

Sevcik: Op 3, 40 Variations for Viola

sku Product SKU:  HL14029832

For Viola. Arranged by Margaret Major. Composed by Ottakar Sevcik (1852-1934). Sevcik Viola Studies. Method. Book Only. 24 pages. 9x11.5 inches. Published by Bosworth & Co. (HL14029832

40 variations covering different aspects of technique.

USD 11.9500

Sevcik: Violin Studies, Op 8

sku Product SKU:  HL14029822

Changes of Position and Preparatory Scale Studies

Violin - Grade 3
Composed by Ottakar Sevcik (1852-1934). Sevcik Violin Studies. 56 pages. 9x12 inches. Published by Bosworth & Co.

A compendium of studies for changes of positions with preparatory scale studies. One of the unique advantages of the shifting exercises in Sevcik's Op.8 is that they provide a musical framework within which to place each shift.A compendium of studies for changes of positions with preparatory scale studies. One of the unique advantages of the shifting exercises in Sevcik's Op.8 is that they provide a musical framework within which to place each shift.

USD 11.9500

Edly’s Music Theory for Practical People

sku Product SKU:  EDLY

Edly’s Music Theory for Practical People is the book that makes learning theory easy and fun—or at least, easier and funner. It’s written for anyone, teen to adult, wanting to understand what’s going on inside music, regardless of musical style or instrument: rock ‘n’ rollers wanting to broaden their musical horizons, jazzers needing more knowledge of chords and scales, theory students needing supplementary help, or classically trained folks wanting to better understand their Chopin… or branch into popular styles or read from fake books.

USD 25.0000

The ABCs of Violin for the Absolute Beginner, Book 1

sku Product SKU:  ABC1X

Title: The ABC's of Violin for the Absolute Beginner, book 1

About: A violin method book that's fun for both children and adults. 9 x 12 inches. 48 pages. Includes CD

A Violin Method That's Fun for Both Children and Adults, Includes Classical and Popular Melodies You Know and Love!. Composed by Janice Tucker Rhoda. SWS. Back To School. CD contains piano accompaniments as audio and printable PDF; Also includes complete performances. Instructional. Book with download. With Standard notation. Published by Carl Fischer Music (ABC1X).

The best seller The ABCs of Violin for the Absolute Beginner, Book 1 now has a special CD consisting of three components: 34 performance pieces of violin with piano a ccompaniments, piano accompaniment tracks by themselves for play-along, and a printable pdf file of the piano accompaniments. Concert violinist Emil Altschuler is a protege of Erick Friedman and Dorothy DeLay. He plays The ABCs of Violin Book 1 CD with passion, sensitivity and elegance! 

 

USD 14.9900

Schroeder 170 Foundation Studies, Vol 1

sku Product SKU:  O2469

This re-engraved edition of Volume 1 of Alwin Schoreder’s celebrated 170 Foundation Studies for Violincello keeps in tact Schoreder’s organized studies in a pedagogically progressive order and adds editor, Richard Hughey’s, lifelong experience learning from and teaching with the collection. These are wonderful studies for the beginning cellist and also works to renew and further develop experienced players as well.

Composers

  • Lee
  • Justus Dotzauer
  • S. Lee
  • Ferdinand Buchler
  • Auguste Franchomme
  • F. Grutzmacher
  • Carl Schroder
  • Alwin Schroeder

Editor

  • Richard Hughey

Vol 1 Table of Contents:

1. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 1
2. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 2
3. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 3
4. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 4
5. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 5
6. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 6
7. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 7
8. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 8
9. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 9
10. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 10
11. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 11
12. Lee, Op. 70, No. 4
13. Lee, Op. 70, No.5
14. Lee, Op. 70, No. 6
15. Lee, Op. 70, No. 1
16. Lee, Op. 70, No. 9
17. Lee, Op. 70, No. 11
18. Lee, Op. 70, No. 20
19. Lee, Op. 70, No. 21
20. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 12
21. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 13
22. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 15
23. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 16
24. Lee, Op. 70, No. 24
25. C. Schroder, Op. 31, No. 18
26. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 2
27. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 3
28. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 4
29. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 5
30. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 6
31. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 7
32. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 3
33. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 4
34. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 5
35. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 6
36. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 2
37. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 7
38. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 8
39. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 9
40. C. Schroder, Op. 48, No. 10
41. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 1
42. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 2
43. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 3
44.Grutzmacher, Op. 38, No. 1
45. Grutzmacher, Op. 38, No. 4
46. Grutzmacher, Op. 38, No. 5
47. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 10
48. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 11
49. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 12
50. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 13
51. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 5
52. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 6
53. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 8
54. C. Schroder, Op. 57, No. 9
55. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 14
56. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 16
57. Dotzauer, Op. 120, No. 17
58. Buchler, Op. 21, No. 1
59. Buchler, Op. 21, No. 2
60. Buchler, Op. 21, No. 3
61. Buchler, Op. 21, No. 4
62. Buchler, Op. 21, No. 5
63. Buchler, Op. 21, No. 6
64. Dotzauer
65. Dotzauer
66. Dotzauer
67. Dotzauer
68. Dotzauer
69. Dotzauer
70. Franchomme, Op. 35, No. 2
71. Franchomme, Op. 35, No. 5
72. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 1
73. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 2
74. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 3
75. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 5
76. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 6
77. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 7
78. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 8
79. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 9
80. C. Schroder, Op. 44, No. 4"

 

USD 24.9900

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