SKU: AP.36-52720604
ISBN 9781633610088. UPC: 679360614877. English.
The third volume moves students toward more advanced playing techniques and literature. This text continues to develop playing skills found in Book 2 and advances the student through more rigorous and lengthy literature. Instrument-specific selections promote performance, reinforcing shifting skills, more advanced bowing techniques, and complex and multiple-meter pieces. The book contains solo literature that: enables the student to use higher positions with suggested fingerings; features accidentals that challenge left-hand intonation; utilizes more complex time signatures, multiple-meters, and challenging rhythmic patterns; and develops the bow stroke to perform more expressive dynamics and musicianship. Digital audio available.
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SKU: AP.36-52720600
ISBN 9781429126267. UPC: 679360613795. English.
This volume continues the development of playing skills found in Book 1 and progresses to more complex rhythms, left-hand finger patterns and techniques, bowing techniques, and preparation for shifting. Book 2 introduces students to: long and controlled bow strokes, slurred legato and staccato bow strokes, string-crossing slurs, and producing dynamic contrasts; new rhythmic patterns including dotted notes, triplets, sixteenth notes, swinging eighth notes, and syncopated rhythms; new time signatures including 6/8 and 3/8, along with cut time for cello/bass; and major and minor left-hand string patterns, extended fingerings, and beginning octave harmonics and shifting. Online audio available.
SKU: AP.36-52720596
ISBN 9781633610019. UPC: 679360613108. English.
Volume 1 begins with open strings and basic notation, rhythms, and bowing skills. New notes, notation, and bowing skills are added in logical progression, reinforcing both right- and left-hand technique and developing the cognition for string performance. This book introduces students to: the basic major and minor tetrachords on all four strings; essential rhythmic notation from whole notes through eighth-note patterns; left-hand techniques such as easily played double stops, left-hand pizzicato, differentiating whole and half steps; and a variety of bow techniques. Audio available online.
SKU: AP.36-52720469
ISBN 9781628763874. UPC: 746241220448. English.
A best seller for over ten years! Everything the working soloist needs to play a wedding prelude and service, without being technically taxing. All 22 selections from the original album have been rescored to include introductions for solo performance. Air on the G String (Bach); Arioso (Bach); Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Bach); Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach); Wachet auf (Bach); Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod); Ave Maria (Schubert); Ode to Joy (Beethoven); Canon (Pachelbel); La Rejouissance (Handel); Queen of Sheba (Handel); Water Music Selections (Handel); "Largo" from Winter (Vivaldi); Bridal Chorus (Wagner); Wedding March (Mendelssohn); Alleluja (Mozart); Piano Concerto No. 21 (Mozart); Panis Angelicus (Franck); Prelude (Charpentier); Rondeau (Mouret); Trumpet Tune (Purcell); Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke).
SKU: AP.36-52711356
ISBN 9781628762853. UPC: 679360709917. English.
This collection of Christmas hymn arrangements is a wonderful educational, worship or concert resource for teachers, church musicians, or anyone who enjoys playing hymns, playing with friends, and celebrating the birth of Jesus with music. Presented in 2 volumes, the Violin 1 part is lower to middle intermediate level and is where the melody is always most clearly presented and most prominent, while the Violin 2 part is for the more adept player, full of harmonic and the occasional obbligato-style accompaniment. Written for two violins and piano (optional), both a viola and cello part are include to substitue for the Violin 2. Volume 1 includes: 1. Angels We Have Heard on High, 2. Away in a Manger, 3. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, 4. The Holly and the Ivy/The First Noel, 5. Joy to the World, 6. O Come All Ye Faithful, 7. Once in Royal David's City, 8. Silent Night.
SKU: AP.36-52711050
ISBN 9781628762013. UPC: 679360706787. English.
The word "hymn" comes from the Greek "hymnos", meaning a festive song. To hymnologists (people who study hymns), the HYMN is the poetry, the lyrics, which is then set to a HYMN TUNE. Many wonderful hymn tunes have been used over the centuries with several completely different sets of words. The name of a hymn tune seldom matches the name of its hymn, and most people refer to hymns by their poetic names rather than their tune names. However, some hymn tunes are so powerful, so flexible and so rooted in the collective social consciousness that they transcend whatever poetry is put with them. Several tunes in this set have been used for many poems, most of which are unfamilar. But we know the melody instantly! Written for two violins and piano, both a viola and cello part are include to substitue for the 2nd violin. Hymns (tunes) include: 1. All Glory, Laud and Honor (St. Theodulph), 2. Crown Him With Many Crowns (Diademata), 3. Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken (Austria), 4. I Love to Tell the Story (Hankey), 5. Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (St. Denio), 6. O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Axnon), 7. O Worship the King (Lyons), 8. Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe Den Herren).
SKU: AP.36-52711048
UPC: 679360724859. English.
Now includes optional viola and cello parts for the second violin. Intermediate level. All Creatures of our God and King; All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name; God of Our Fathers; I Sing the Mighty Power of God; Lead On, O King Eternal; O God, Our Help in Ages Past; Onward, Christian Soldiers; Rise Up, O Men of God.
SKU: AP.36-52711504
ISBN 9781628763898. UPC: 746241244680. English.
A practical collection of some of the favorite traditional hymns of the Advent season. In these arrangements the first violin player plays a relatively straight-forward part for each tune while the second part contains a slightly more ornamented part. Titles include: Savior of the Nations, Come; Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming; Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence; The Angel Gabriel; Come, Redeemer of the Earth; Of the Father's Love Begotten; and Lift Up your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates.
SKU: AP.36-52711506
ISBN 9781628765465. UPC: 746241201560. English.
The hymns in this collection are fantastic choices for any Lenten or Easter service. Scored for two violins and piano, the melodic first part is more accessible, while the accompanying second part provides more of a challenge. Although optional, the piano part fills out each arrangement wonderfully, adding to the hymn's beauty. Titles include: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded; When I Survey the Wondrous Cross; Were You There; Christ the Lord Is Risen Today; Thine Be the Glory; Easter People, Raise Your Voices; Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise.
SKU: AP.36-52711464
UPC: 679360786093. English.
Lyrically beautiful settings of these historically rich tunes, most with an open modal sound. Violin 1 is at the intermediate level, Violin 2 is slightly more advanced, and the piano part is moderately difficult. What Wondrous Love, My Shepherd Will Supply My Need, Rock of Ages, Holy Manna, Come Ye Sinners, Christian's Farewell and Bozrah. Piano part is optional.
SKU: AP.36-52702158
ISBN 9781621567608. UPC: 830056001580. English.
Scored for 2 Violins and Cello and includes optional Violin 2 for Viola. Titles include: Bach-Wachet auf, Arioso, and Sheep may Safely Graze; Schumann-Traumeri; Beethoven-Ode to Joy; Franck-Panis Angelicus; Mozart-Alleluja from Exultate Jubilate and Andante from Piano Concerto #21; and Tchaikovsky-Sleeping Beauty Waltz.
SKU: AP.36-52703156
ISBN 9781621567424. UPC: 679360602362. English.
This collection includes: Alleluja from "Exultate Jubilate" (Mozart); Traumeri (Schumann); Wachet Auf (Bach); Sheep May Safely Graze (Bach); Ode To Joy (Beethoven); Arioso (Bach); Panis Angelicus (Franck); Andante from "Piano Concerto No. 21" (Mozart) and Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky).
SKU: AP.36-52784001
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Anna Amalia of Prussia held various titles during her lifetime, including Princess and Abbess of Quedlinburg. Born in Berlin, she was one of ten surviving children of the royal family of King Frederick William I of Prussia. Princess Anna Amalia studied harpsichord, piano and counterpoint. Princess Anna also founded a music library collection, which included autographed scores of J.S. Bach and other composers. This collection still exists today (Amalien Bibliothek). This two-movement Divertimento in Bb Major has something for everyone. The melodic and secondary parts are passed equally between the instruments. The piano part is quite playable for a high school student. It has the character of a conversation between friends gathering for a friendly afternoon tea. This arrangement is scored for piano quartet, with a substitue clarinet part in place of violin.
SKU: AP.36-52702160
ISBN 9781621567615. UPC: 660355076534. English.
