ΒΙΒΛΙΑ ΚΛΑΣΣΙΚΩΝ ΕΓΧΟΡΔΩΝ

Frank Michael’s duets are conceived for young as well as older beginning students. Both cycles are designed with contrasting sounds and can essentially be played in the first position. The pieces specifically call for techniques that are uncommon among beginners, such as pizzicato, glissando, col legno battuto and harmonics. The “String Games” are very easy and perfectly suited to children. The closing cycle “On 8 Strings” was written shortly before the other pieces and is intended to give students “the experience of having fun with acrobatics, enjoying all kinds of sonorities, including ‘forbidden’ ones, making a more unusual use of the instrument, and to combine this with clear forms, melodies and rhythms.” All eight little pieces are ideal for recitals. The book also contains special suggestions for practice and improvisation; working them out will enhance the interpretation of the pieces. The enclosed CD is intended as an aid for practicing at home.
Contents
1. Prelude
2. Tanzspiel mit Quinten
3. Berceuse
4. Stampftanz
5. Uff dem Anger
6. Auf dem Eis
7. Auf dem Wasser
8. Sur le pont?
 
 
 
Score Pages: 24
2nd Violin Part Pages: 11
Language: German
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel

With this new publication the 24 Capricci from “L’Arte del Violino” by Pietro Locatelli are available for teaching again. Their independence, extent and structure as well as their virtuosity earned them an exceptional position in the history of violin music which was later continued by Paganini’s Capriccios.
The score is preceded by a detailed introduction including performance and practice suggestions and referring in particular to important contemporaries such as Muffat, Corrette, Tartini, Geminiani, and Leopold Mozart.
The present edition is based on the text laid down by the critical edition in the ‘Opera Omnia’.
Contents Introduzione Introduction Enführung Introduction Ventiquattro Capricci per Violino solo Op. III Esercizi Preparatori Preparatory Exercises Exercices Préparatoires Einführende Übungen Premessa Segni e Abbreviazioni Preface Sign and Abbreviations Vorbemerkung Zeichen und Abkürzungen Préface Signes et Abréviations Capriccio I-XXIV
 
 
 
Editor: Dunning Albert
Fingering and Preparatory Exercises: Porta Enzo
Score Pages: 68
Language: Italian, English, French
Publisher: Schott

Contents
1. Judenkünig, H.: Introductio
2. Attaignant, Pierre: Tordion
3. Nörmiger, A.: Ungarischr Aufftzugkh
4. Ismeretlen szerző: Tantz
5. Praetorius, Michael: Gavotte
6. Schein, Johann Hermann: Intrada
7. Schein, Johann Hermann: Galliarda
8. Franck, Melchior: Deutscher Tanz
9. Franck, Melchior: Tanzlied
10. Haussmann, Valentin: Tanz
11. Ismeretlen szerző (Gdansk): Polonica
12. Ismeretlen szerző (Codex Kájoni): Zingaresca
13. Ismeretlen szerző (Codex Kájoni): Paikos Tancz
14. Ismeretlen szerző (Codex Kájoni): Chorea
15. Ismeretlen szerző (Codex Kájoni): Chorea Sponsa
16. Ismeretlen szerző (Sopron): Ungaresca
17. Muffat, Georg: Sarabanda e Gavotta
18. Couperin, François: La Badine
19. dall’ Abaco, Evaristo Felice: Largo
20. Mouret, Jean-Joseph: Bourrée
21. Telemann, Georg Philipp: Canon
22. Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Rigaudon
23. Rameau, Jean-Philippe: Gavotte
24. Händel, Georg Friedrich: Minuet
25. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Canon
26. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Canon inversus
27. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Canon cancrizans
28. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale äGott, wie gross ist deine Güteö
29. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale äEins ist notö
30. Bach, Johann Sebastian: Chorale äDir, dir, Jehova, will ich singenö
31. Mozart, Leopold: Passepied
32. Mozart, Leopold: Bourlesq
33. Mozart, Leopold: Trompeten-Stück
34. Mozart, Leopold: Wald-Horn-Stück
35. Mozart, Leopold: March
36. Haydn, Franz Joseph: Duet
37. Pleyel, Ignaz Josef: Duo
38. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus: Canon inversus
39. Beethoven, Ludwig van: Canon
40. Schubert, Franz: Ländler
41. Schubert, Franz: Ecossaise
 
 
 
Editor: Pejtsik Árpád
Instrument-technical signs: Szász József
Score Pages: 35
Language: English, German, Hungarian
Publisher: Editio Musica Budapest

This hit series makes authentic folk music available in a flexible format suitable for teaching, busking and performance. The Complete Edition includes a violin part, keyboard accompaniment with optional violin accompaniment, easy violin part and guitar chords.
 
 
 
Arranger: Edward Huws Jones
Score Pages: 35
Language: English, French, German
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes

Basics is a collection of practice methods and exercises, and belongs on the music stand, not on the bookshelf. It can be used by players of all standards, from concert violinists to students. Much of the material is also suitable for teaching elementary players.
Each exercise is designed to achieve the maximum possible result in the least possible time. Some are very short and need to be done only once or twice to explore a particular aspect of technique. Others are practice routines or warm-up exercises that can returned to regularly.
Basics is not a book to play through from cover to cover (though, for easy reference, the exercises are numbered sequentially throughout). Everybody’s needs are different, and there is little point in practising anything that does not need to be practised.
The book is invaluable, however, in its presentation of the most effective technical work in a single volume, making it possible to work directly on any aspect of technique that needs attention.
 
Score Pages: 231
Language: English
Publisher: Edition Peters

Johann Sebastian Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin belong undoubtedly to those masterworks of the violin literature which every violinist should study thoroughly and come to grips with. It is my concern in this new edition to offer the player encouragement and help in mastering a great variety of problems. The present work is the result of many years’ study of Bach’s music and the intellectual climate of his time. I have tried to give consideration both to requirements of a stylistic nature and to the contemporary technical and tonal possibilities of our instrument. Fingerings, bowings and other annotations stem from my colleagues and, particularly, for young violinists.
Contents

Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor, BWV1002
Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 2 in D minor, BWV1004
Bach, J S: Partita for solo violin No. 3 in E major, BWV1006
Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 1 in G minor, BWV1001
Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003
Bach, J S: Sonata for solo violin No. 3 in C major, BWV1005

 
 
Pages: 88Language: English, German, FrenchPublisher: SCHOTT

The student learns and practices spiccato, vibrato and position playing step by step. The pieces, which are all in two parts again, aim at a flexible use of the new techniques in a varied musical context. Learning to shift is one of the focal points, besides learning to play in the second, third, fourth and half positions. The pieces cover all possible combinations of starting fingers and goal fingers. Suggestions for free playing are also supplied in Book 2, which stimulates the imagination, increases the student’s delight in playing, practicing and experimenting – and is ideal for group lessons as well!
 
 
Score Pages: 92
Language: German
Publisher: Breitkopf & Härtel

Score Pages: 64
Language: German
Publisher: Schott

Contents
Chapter 1: F major
Chapter 2: The minor mode of baroque and classical music
Chapter 3: B flat major and G minor
Chapter 4: More rapid movement
Chapter 5: Pieces in slow time
Chapter 6: New types of bowing
Chapter 7: F sharp minor and C sharp minor
Chapter 8: Practice in old polyphonic music
Chapter 9: Short strokes with raised bow (spiccato)
Chapter 10: Frequent changing in the position of the semitone stop
Chapter 11: Playing on two strings
Chapter 12: Successive notes on non-adjacent strings
Chapter 13: Eleven Duets
 
 
Score Pages: 64
Language: English
Publisher: Schott

Contents
Der Bogen Die Bogenhaltung Striche auf leeren Seiten Musik in fünf Tönen. Die erste Griffart. Musik in sechs Tönen, 3/4 Takt Musik in 8 Tönen Die Achtelnoten Neues in der ersten Griffart Die zweite Griffart Verbindung der ersten mit der zweiten Griffart Das punktierte Viertel Die dritte Griffart: Halbton vom 1. zum 2. Finger Verbindung der dritten mit der ersten Griffart Die vierte Griffart: Halbton von der leeren Saite zum 1. Finger Musik in Moll Tänze, Lieder und Duos verschiedener Art Anhang: Technische Übungen und Tonleitern
 
 
 
Score Pages: 88
Language: German
Publisher: Schott

 pieces using the finger pattern 01-2-34, plus low 2nd fingers and high 3rd fingers
2nd and 3rd position pieces
a range of bowing techniques, including spiccato, hooked bowing, and string crossing
original pieces and duets in a range of styles, plus well-known pieces
pieces using modes, the chromatic and blues scales, and dominant 7ths, linking with Fiddle Time Scales 2
a CD of performances and backings, with drumkit and bass added for the jazz and rock numbers
piano and violin accompaniments available separately

 
Pages: 32 Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press

pieces using the finger patterns 0-12-3-4 and 0-1-2-34
traditional tunes and pieces by well-known composers from Handel to Mozart
original pieces in a range of styles from rag to flamenco
fantastic illustrations by John Eastwood
semiquavers, dotted cratchets, and 6/8 time
duets, with parts of equal difficulty
straightforward piano accompaniments available in a separate volume.

 
Pages: 31 Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press