At the violin school The Happy Violin, the focus is on having fun while learning: the textbook aims at a playful, early start with the instrument. As the lesson progresses, the growing students are then consciously addressed in a language that corresponds to their age development. This also includes a stylistically diverse range of pieces from classical and folklore, and all sorts of interesting facts about the music and its composers are always reported.
Volume 1: Detailed introduction to the bow position – songs and pieces using only the first type of fingering, with a focus on rhythmic, melodic and bowing technique variety – playful exploration of violin playing techniques such as pizzicato, position playing, flageolet and double stops CD for volume 1 (T 3272). all songs and pieces, with funny dialogues spoken by children. A motivating addition to the lesson and a nice gift idea!
The playbook is designed as a supplement to the first volume of the teaching work The Happy Violin. Therefore, all violin parts can be played in the 1st fingering to suit the violin school. Musically, however, the booklet goes far beyond the content of a first year of teaching, so that the pieces are also well suited to recapitulating familiar content.
The pieces contain a wide variety of musical ideas and styles, from baroque to modern, from the shanty to the Japanese national anthem, from the light canon to the effective prelude piece.
Contents
Preface
Welcome to violin lessons
Visit to the violin maker
The four strings
The bow stance
Eighth notes
The left hand
The first type of grip
The flageolet
sign
Bound sheet music
The first double stops
Short notes
Songs for special occasions
Songs and plays:
Evening song
Ali ben Ule
All of Alabama’s monkeys
American gospel song
Andulka
To sing on rainy days
Asian dream song
Elevator
From Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
From the Peasant Cantata
From the 9th Symphony
Babushka’s Evening Song
At the violin maker
Bella Bimba
movement game
Brother Jacob
Cantata Domino
Chinese melody
The dachshund drama
The echo
The sad child
The excursion
The hedgehog and the porcupine
The Cuckoo and the donkey
The night violinist
The clever Purzel
The snail
The proud poodle
The proud poodle – something different
The old bridge
The old bridge-somewhat changed
The goose Agathe
The Nightingale
The snail mail
English sea shanty
English sea shanty (chorus)
Finger climbing song 1
Eve! Caroline!
Carnival duet
Holiday song
French troubadour song
Brother Jacques
Happy violin piece
Spring song
Five scale tongue twisters
birthday song
Ghost music
Good morning, Mr. Spielmann
Hot, Kathreinerle
Hey, hitch up the car
Heijo, hitch up the car (canon)
In the rocking chair
Indian dance
Joseph, dear Joseph my
Canon from Israel
Do you know this song?
Little festival music
Little finger exercise
Little melody
Small scale piece
Cuckoo song
Song of the Snake Charmer
Song with the note B
March for the Emperor of China
Morning song
musette
Another climbing scale
Another piece with double stops
Oh joyful day
O Savior, tear open the heavens
Intermission piece
polka
Little rose, little rose
String changing exercise
Scottish March
Scottish New Year’s Eve song
swing dance
Dance song
Tim the piper
I stepped outside the door today
Trumpet fanfare
Hungarian dance
Good luck and many blessings
Virtuoso piece
From the sky above
waltz
what is that supposed to mean
What is the little mouse dreaming about?
Lullaby
We climb up
We’re calling everyone
We play with and without breaks
We practice the dotted rhythm
We practice for the swing dance
Miracle song
Happy birthday
At Easter
Two small fifth pieces
Playbook:
Two pieces on open strings:
Sunday walk
Birthday rally
Two canons:
Autumn canon
Spring canon
Two songs from Israel:
Love song (Hana’ava babanot)
Praise to King David
Two songs from Spain:
Summer Song (Segador)
The Shepherdess (La Pastoreta)
Two sea shanties:
Was once a small sailing boat
My Bonnie is over the ocean
Two pieces from the “Happy Violin”:
Peasant Cantata (JS Bach)
The night violinist
Two pieces from the early baroque:
Peasant Dance (M. Praetorius)
Dance (M. Praetorius)
Two pieces from the Baroque period:
Little Hunting Music (G. Ph. Telemann)
Variations on: “We have three cats” (Augsburger Tafelkonfekt)
Two pieces from the 21st century:
The scary cobra
Dance of the earthworms
Two songs from Australia:
Moreton Bay
The frigate Catalpa
Two pieces for stage performances:
Enter the contortionists
Rondo after a Polish dance