SKU: FH.VLR07
ISBN 9781554409082.
Carefully selected and curated to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the Violin Series, 2021 Edition includes pieces from a diverse range of eras and styles that represent stepping stones to major violin repertoire. Each level is constructed to link repertoire selections to necessary techniques and corresponding etudes, while illustrating step-by-step connections for developing core skills. Each Repertoire book includes access to quality video and audio recordings by some of North America's finest violinists and accompanists; both performance and accompaniment-only tracks for each Repertoire selection offer students a model for performance practice and the convenience of accompanied rehearsal at home.
In Violin Repertoire 7, a broad cross-section of composers is explored, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Bohm, Cesar Cui, Riccardo Drigo, Edward Elgar, Francesco Geminiani, Fritz Kreisler, Benedetto Marcello, Moritz Moszkowski, William Potstock, Friedrich Seitz, Edmund Severn, Franz Schubert, Paul Wachs, and Antonio Vivaldi. This varied repertoire provides ample opportunity for stylistic development. Violin Repertoire 7 encourages the expansion of artistry through the introduction of new key signatures, leading to comfort and awareness of melody and harmonic structure. Passagework includes first to seventh positions, increased chromaticism, motivic patterning, and the exploration of ornaments, alongside a variety of opportunities for mastering bow articulation.
SKU: FH.VLE02
ISBN 9781554409143.
Carefully selected and curated to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the Violin Series, 2021 Edition includes pieces from a diverse range of eras and styles that represent stepping stones to major violin repertoire.
Violin Orchestral Excerpts 9-ARCT presents excerpts ordered chronologically from the Baroque to the modern era and includes overtures, ballets, operas, chamber music, orchestral music, and contemporary works. Selections are organized progressively to present relevant materials with both section parts and concertmaster solos for youth and community orchestras, chamber music ensembles, and to provide preparation material for auditions at the professional level. This book features works from Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonin Dvorak, Edward Elgar, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gustav Mahler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Arnold Schoenberg, Rodney Sharman, Caroline Shaw, Dmitri Shostakovich, Bedrich Smetena, Richard Strauss, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky and Dinuk Wijeratne.
SKU: FH.VLE01
ISBN 9781554409136.
Violin Orchestral Excerpts 7-8 presents excerpts ordered chronologically from Baroque through to the modern era. Selections are organized progressively to present relevant materials for school orchestras and initial chamber music experiences. Bowing and fingering has been added where needed to encourage the most stylistically appropriate results. This book features works from Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Mikhail Glinka, George Frideric Handel, Jacques Hetu, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Kelly-Marie Murphy, Jacques Offenbach, Gioachino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky.
SKU: FH.S50
ISBN 9781554409150.
The Official Syllabi of The Royal Conservatory are essential for teachers preparing students for examinations. Students and their parents will also benefit from the information presented in these helpful resource books. The syllabi include information about application procedures and marking systems for RCM Examinations, technical requirements and listings of a wide range of repertoire for each level of study, and comprehensive bibliographies of music texts and reference books. This resource outlines the Violin requirements for the Preparatory to ARCT levels of The Royal Conservatory Examinations. The Violin Syllabus includes an extensive listing of repertoire organized by musical style, historical era, or genre.
SKU: FH.BUNDLE-VIOLIN21
Complete library set includes: • 9 Violin Repertoire Books (Prep – 8)• 3 Violin Technique & Etudes Books (Prep – 8)• 2 Orchestral Excerpts (7 – ARCT).
SKU: FH.VLR08
ISBN 9781554409099.
Violin Repertoire 8 is the culmination of techniques presented in the repertoire forms of concertos, sonatas, concert pieces, and unaccompanied materials by composers such as Murray Adaskin, Johann Sebastian Bach, Bela Bartok, Edward Elgar, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Anatoli Komarowski, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo de Sarasate, Dmitri Shostakovich, Francois Schubert, Georg Philipp Telemann, Antonio Vivaldi, and Henryk Wieniawski. The repertoire highlights areas in which students can further their artistic development by cultivating expressive vibrato and their fluency of left-hand shifts between the first and seventh position, alongside varied bow strokes in different styles.
SKU: FH.VLR06
ISBN 9781554409075.
Violin Repertoire 6 features an array of selections from composers such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Harold Birston, Felix Borowski, George Coutts, Charles Dancla, Christine Donkin, Scott Joplin, Bohuslav Martinu, Eduard Mollenhauer, Max Reger, Healey Willan, and Antonio Vivaldi. While focusing on cultivating bow articulations in various styles, the Level 6 repertoire expands the left hand between first and sixth positions by integrating more complex passagework, ornamentation, and increased left- and right-hand coordination.
SKU: FH.VLR01
ISBN 9781554409020.
Violin Repertoire 1 offers selections at various tempos that explore familiar D major/minor and A major/minor tonalities in first position, while encouraging further development of hand-frame knowledge in the keys of G major and C major across the fingerboard. Through a broad cross-section of pieces in simple and compound time, enriched piano accompaniments enhance lyricism and tone production. The pieces explore bow development and division using a variety of lengths, while also introducing hooked bows and slurs. New experiences include artificial harmonics, glissando, and double stops; duets are included to provide opportunities for in-class and recital collaboration. Featured composers include Harold Birston, Christine Donkin, Robert Fleming, Christine Gale, Terence Greaves, Ricky Hyslop, Michael Joncas, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Christopher Norton, Mary Alice Rich, Alec Rowley, and Robert Schumann.
SKU: FH.VLR02
ISBN 9781554409037.
Carefully selected and curated to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the Violin Series, 2021 Edition includes pieces from a diverse range of eras and styles that represent stepping stones to major violin repertoire. Each level is constructed to link repertoire selections to necessary techniques and corresponding etudes, while illustrating step-by-step connections for developing core skills. Each Repertoire book includes quality video and audio recordings by some of North America's finest violinists and accompanists; both performance and accompaniment-only tracks for each Repertoire selection offer students a model for performance practice and the convenience of accompanied rehearsal at home.
Violin Repertoire 2 provides an array of character pieces to capture students' imaginations with music written by Violet Archer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edward Elgar, Mikhail Glinka, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The selections are varied and compelling, from arrangements of traditional favorites to exciting, newly commissioned works from 21st-century composers. Level 2 explores rhythmic pulse and organization of meter, while integrating dotted rhythms with hooked bowings, increased slur combinations, and bow articulations. Position work is explored in first and third position with additional focus on major and minor keys.
SKU: FH.VLR05
ISBN 9781554409068.
Violin Repertoire 5 spotlights a global representation of repertoire, including Christine Donkin, Manuel de Falla, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Fritz Kreisler, Dmitri Shostakovich, Shinichi Suzuki, and Ralph Vaughan Williams. While progressing into the Intermediate level of the repertoire series, bow strokes such as colle and beginning spiccato strokes are explored. Students continue their study of shifting by encountering works ranging between first and fifth positions, while explanatory footnotes provide assistance with harmonic finger placement and the execution of ornaments.
SKU: FH.VLR00
ISBN 9781554409013.
Violin Preparatory Repertoire features student and teacher duets to promote listening skills and to provide an entry point into ensemble playing. This repertoire book for elementary-level students, distinguished by slow and fast tempos, is based on the foundational finger patterns of D major and A major, postural development, and bow division with legato and staccato strokes. Special effects, such as tapping on the side of the violin and open-string pizzicato, promote freedom of movement and encourage navigation of the fingerboard. Elementary rhythms are explored alongside supportive piano accompaniments within familiar time signatures. Featured composers include Violet Archer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Harold Birston, Frank Blachford, Jean Couthard, David Gordon Duke, Jean Ethridge, Joanne Martin, and Mary Alice Rich.
SKU: FH.VLR03
ISBN 9781554409044.
Violin Repertoire 3 provides exciting and varied repertoire with entry-level concertos, sonatas, fiddle tunes, and dance styles (polkas, waltzes, and polonaises). Pieces by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, Natalya Baklanova, Antonin Dvorak, Edvard Grieg, Ferdinand Kuchler, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Georg Philipp Telemann are experienced in both solo and duet form. Level 3 students continue to expand their hand-frame knowledge with the inclusion of new flat keys, while gaining comfort in the second position. Rhythmic challenges are introduced through a variety of meters and syncopation. Articulations such as brush stroke are introduced.
SKU: FH.VLR04
ISBN 9781554409051.
Carefully selected and curated to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the Violin Series, 2021 Edition includes pieces from a diverse range of eras and styles that represent stepping stones to major violin repertoire. Each level is constructed to connect repertoire selections to necessary techniques and corresponding etudes, while illustrating step-by-step connections for developing core skills. Each Repertoire book includes access to quality video and audio recordings by some of North America's finest violinists and accompanists; both performance and accompaniment-only tracks for each Repertoire selection offer students a model for performance practice and the convenience of accompanied rehearsal at home.
Violin Repertoire 4 includes Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th- and 21st-century selections of Johann Sebastian Bach, Natalya Backlanova, Ethel Barns, Harold Birston, Arcangelo Corelli, Franz Joseph Haydn, Ferdinand Kuchler, Jacques Fereol Mazas, Eduard Mollenhauer, Yoshinao Nakada, Charlotte Ruegger, Arnaldo Sartorio, and Gerry Thornton. Level 4 introduces new aural challenges with tempo fluctuations and harmonic modulations, while exploring compound meters, syncopation, and hemiola. This book encourages performers to be flexible, as it expands upon hand-frames with extensions, fourth-position fluency, and fingered double stops, while the bow develops stylistic applications of articulations, including off-string strokes.
