ISBN 9781513459929. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

Incorporating skills taught in many popular violin methods, these tuneful solo pieces offer a fresh alternative for teachers who would like a stimulating supplement to their usual method. These entertaining and whimsical compositions reinforce and develop violin skills through repetition disguised as lyrical musical phrases. They strengthen the left hand, exercise the fourth finger, and use rests in musically compelling ways that keep the student attentive. They also present mixed meter and double-stops, and offer a practical introduction to musical form and phrase structure. Slurs and dynamics are incorporated immediately, along with right-hand pizzicato on stopped strings and left-hand pizzicato on all open strings. These pieces are written specifically to encourage interpretive creativity, even at the most elementary levels. As twenty-first-century pieces for solo violin, they are meant to be performed as well as studied

This is a book of 6 Christmas solo arrangements with piano accompaniment (or backing tracks). It contains popular Christmas classics, each of which has at least 2 verses which are arranged in different ways. You can try them all and see which you like best! They range from Easy-Intermediate to Advanced-Intermediate in difficulty; a solo part and a piano accompaniment are provided for each piece, as is a backing track on YouTube. This is the full list: 1. Jingle Bells 2. Ding Dong Merrily On High 3. Joy To The World 4. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 5. O Little Town of Bethlehem 6. Silent Night Free backing tracks are provided for each piece; these can be heard in the video above and the link is also printed in the front of the book for future use.