A highly flexible series of books designed to encourage young people to play together in various combinations of numbers and instruments perfect for group tuition. Book 1 offers 19 easy-intermediate trios using familiar melodies arranged in classical folk and jazz styles including Country Garden God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Mexican Hat Dance Sailor's Hornpipe. This collection can be used for solo duet or trio playing and can also be used with matching arrangements of the same material in Book 1 for Brass Saxophone Clarinet Flute. An optional piano accompaniment book is available.

Violin 2020-2023. Grade 3. This book contains a selection of nine pieces for Trinity Violin Grade 3 exams 2020?2023, carefully chosen, graded and edited by a panel of experts. Encompassing a wide range of styles and including accompanied and unaccompanied pieces at every grade and duets up to Grade 3, this progressive series provides a wealth of engaging repertoire for any violin player. CD available separately, or stream or purchase audio from Amazon, Google Play, iTunes, Spotify and other platforms.

The beginner?s guide to learning the violin for any musical styleViolin For Dummies helps you teach yourself to play the violin, even if you?ve never read a note of music. From choosing the right violin for you to playing a variety of musical styles, this book has you covered. You?ll start with the basics of posture and bowing technique, learn how to tune your instrument and keep it in beautiful condition with regular maintenance. You?ll learn how to read and feel the music, and how to inject your own personality into whatever you play. Before you know it, you?ll be playing classical, jazz, country, and more, as you become a bona fide violin player. The included audio and video instruction encourages you to play along as you learn, and allow you to hear, see, and imitate proper technique. / Violon

Barrage is a hot young touring group of seven violinists one percussionist one kit player guitarist bass and keyboard players performing a mix of original world beat music by Dean Marshall with infectious andirresistible energy. Barrage combines jazz swing Celtic roots rock klezmer country calypso and every musical style in between to create an eclectic and electrifying assault on the senses. After hundreds ofrequests for the music of Barrage this volume of sheet music has finally been produced.The texture of the music has been simplified from the group's seven parts down to 1 to 3 Violin parts with various markingsincluded (bar numbers fingerings and bowings) which can be useful in group situations. In terms of difficulty these arrangements are definitely written for the more intermediate to advanced player.The companion EnhancedCD has two exciting applications: You can print the Piano/Guitar accompaniment sheet music from your computer and you can insert the same CD in your stereo for play along with the pre-recorded Piano accompaniment tracks.

Brazil offers a great and luxurious musical variety not only for its large extension of land but also for the multiple cultural interchange established along centuries among the several peoples which contributed to the formingof its rich and varied musical map. From that triple (though not always conscious) alliance among the native Indigenous the European colonizer and the African (those latter brought here as slave workers) resulted a 'Brazility'feeling which is common to every country side despite the distances that separate them: joyous melancholic nostalgic or ritual Brazilian music is always the most authentically expression of its people their happiness andsorrows. This work is an effort to display some Brazilian popular melodies arranged for violin and piano. The themes chosen coming from the country as well as urban areas are part of a repertoire quite familiar to everyBrazilian some of them already belonging for centuries to Brazil's memory. No intention of producing a scientific or musicological work has been nourished by the arrangers. What guided them in the choice of the songs presented inthis book was above all a poetic sense and deep love for the music of their country. Enclosed are 19 violin solos on historic Brazilian themes. A free piano accompaniment is available free online.

Six Country Dances is an anthology of tunes from Playford’s ‘The English Dancing Master’ selected and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett. Playford’s collection was first published in 1651 and contained 535 popular tunes for country dancing. Richard Rodney Bennett’s skilful and inspired arrangements are perfect for intermediate standard players adding as they do a contemporary slant to these classics of the English folk repertoire. This edition is for Violin and Piano.

Violin For Dummies helps you teach yourself to play the Violin even if you've never read a note of music. From choosing the right Violin for you to playing a variety of musical styles this book has youcovered. You'll start with the basics of posture and bowing technique learn how to tune your instrument and keep it in beautiful condition with regular maintenance. You'll learn how to read ??? and feel ??? the music and how toinject your own personality into whatever you play. Before you know it you'll be playing classical jazz country and more as you become a bona fide Violin player. The included audio and video instruction encourages you to playalong as you learn and allow you to hear see and imitate proper technique. The Violin's small size portability and mimicry of the human voice have made it popular across cultures and throughout time. This book showsyou how to teach yourself the basics so you can start playing quickly. Start with the basics of proper hold and bowing technique. Learn how to properly tune and care for your Violin. Understandthe nuances of rhythm and musical notation. Play classical jazz and other popular styles of music. The Violin has a reputation of being difficult to learn but the reality is that it's difficult tomaster. Anyone can learn and practice over time will refine your technique and your musical style. You'll have fun make music and maybe even fall in love with this instrument that has inspired some of the world's best musiciansand composers. Get started today the easy way with Violin For Dummies.

Sir Edward Elgar was an English composer many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations the Pomp and Circumstance Marches concertos for Violin and Cello and two symphonies. He was appointed Master of the King's Musick in 1924.Composed in 1892  Etudes Caracteristiques For Violin Op.24 is dedicated to the preeminent Hungarian Jewish Violin virtuoso and Elgar’s former Violin teacher between 1877-1878 Adolphe Pollitzer. Pollitzerbelieved that as a violinist Elgar had the potential to be one of the leading soloists in the country but Elgar himself having heard leading virtuosi at London concerts felt his own Violin playing lacked a full enough tone and he abandoned his ambitions to be a soloist.

This self-guided beginner's violin course is designed for anyone of any age who wants to play violin. No previous musical experience is necessary! This course will teach you the basics for all types of performance from classicalto country in a clear step- by-step process compatible with Suzuki pedagogy. Lessons include: instrument care tuning positioning note reading playing pizzicato on open strings fingering and use of the bow. . 65 minutes.

First solo pieces for violin. 1st book in the series for violin and piano (schott edition)D. Gabrieli: Ploughman's SongJ. Brahms: Folk SongJ. Brahms: The HunterA.T. Gretchaninoff: Morning StrollA.T. Gretchaninoff: The JesterE. Humperdinck: Sleep SongJ.A. Hasse: Bourée and MenuetE. Grieg: Watchman's SongE. MacDowell: To a Wild RoseF. Schubert: AndanteF. Schubert: WaltzJ. Danbé: Minuet in DF. Schubert: Country DanceF. Schubert: Minuet and Trio (Symphonie No.5)L.v. Beethoven: Menuetto and TrioJ.P. Kirnberger: CarillonG.P. Telemann: Andante and AllegroW.A.Mozart: Minuet and Trio

The first signs of a revival in Italian music at the beginning of the twentieth century are mostly found in the important contributions of a generation of musicians all born in and around the year 1880: Ottorino Respighi Ildebrando Pizzetti Gian Francesco Malipiero and Alfredo Casella.Thanks to them the music scene in Italy began to widen its horizons which basically meant going beyond the 'exclusive cultivation of melodramatic opera and encouraging an awareness of symphonic music in the country.' This anthology provides a meaningful overview of the music for Violin and Piano written by these composers the founders of the movement and also by thosethey inspired. The pieces have been selected for their musical value their didactic usefulness and their ability to represent a particular period in the history of Italian music and culture.