The duets in this volume increase in difficulty: more advanced keys and rhythms are introduced and the musical demands are greater. The score format is used to encourage players to be aware of both parts. The duets cover a wide range of styles and introduce pupils to the music of different periods and countries. The two parts of are equal difficulty and the main melodies are shared between the players for equal interest.
 
Contents
La Bourbonnaise
Patapan
When Laura Smiles  
El Pano
Gavotte
Hush-you-bye
Bourrée
Ah, Poor Bird
Affettuoso
My Love She’s But A Lassie Yet
Halling
Sicilienne
 
Arranger: Brown Christine
Score Pages: 31
Language: English
Publisher: Novello

A monumental undertaking, this translation of Carl Flesch’s essential The Art of Violin Playing, by Eric Rosenblith, was eagerly awaited by teachers and students of the violin throughout the English speaking world. Mr. Rosenblith, a student of Carl Flesch and for 25 years, chairman of the String Department at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, has provided a version of Flesch’s original ‘treatise’ that preserves all the essential basic concepts, but presents them in more contemporary and idiomatic English. Hand diagrams and a table for the consistent use of bowing and fingering symbols have been added. The range of material covered by this massive book is enormous: Body Posture, The Left Arm (positions & fingerings), Vibrato, Bowing (including all varieties of strokes), Tone Production, Musical Memory and much, much more. The range of musical examples is huge and covers excerpts from the works of all the master composers for the violin from Bach and Tartini to Suk and Reger. There is also a foreword by superstar-violinist, Anne-Sophie Mutter, that is a very heartfelt appreciation of the extraordinary position that Flesch and The Art of Violin Playing, Vol. 1 occupies in the education of string players.
Contents
Editor’s Preface
Preface ny Carl Flesch
Foreword by Anne-Sophie Mutter
General Outline of Topics
I. General Technique
B. Body Posture
C. The Left Arm
D. The Right Arm
E. Tone Production
II. Applied Technique:
A. Practicing in General
B. Practicing of General Technique
C. Practicing of Applied Technique
D. Practicing as a Tool for Learning
E. Musical Memory
Appendix A –
Appendix B –
Endnotes
Index of Subjects
Index of Names
Index of Musical Examples
 
 
Editor: Rosenblith Eric
Score Pages: 192
Language: English
Publisher: Carl Fischer