For more than three decades the ?Sassmannshaus Tradition? has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries.More than half a million students have successfully learned to play string instruments using this publication. The publication of the four Violin books in 2008 in a fully adapted English version has been a big success.On the back of this success story Bärenreiter has now published the four books for Cello in a newly adapted version for today?s English speaking children.What makes this Cello method so unique?- The leading German Cello method now available in English.- Large print notes andtexts as well as many colourful illustrations are ideal for pre-school as well as school children.- Note reading is emphasised from the first lesson encouraging ensemble playing from the very beginning.- Songs and scales in different positions are easily mastered within the first year of playing to ensure that children are not confined to first position playing.- Advanced Cello techniques such as varied bow strokes and shifting are introduced in a basic form.

Jazz Cello/Bass Wizard Junior 2 is a continuation of Jazz Cello Wizard Junior (Mel Bay 2002) and is designed for upper middle school and high school string students. JCWjr 2 uses the same basic approach as JCWjr; students learnmainly through imitation the same way we learn to speak our native tongue. It also introduces very easy optional chord theory but only AFTER the student has experienced improvising with chords aurally. The books come in threeversions???violin viola and cello/bass???designed to be used together in studio and classroom situations. This volume introduces three basic concepts that are prerequisites to advanced jazz improvising: solo development modes andinner melodies - the single most potent technique to get students to improvise on advanced progressions immediately. ???

The seventeen Christmas songs in this volume arranged in comfortable keys can be used for players at different levels and for all kinds of occasions. All three editions (Violin Viola and Cello) include two parts foreither solo or duet performance and Piano accompaniment. The three books are all compatible so that ensembles may mix and match parts as desired. Suzuki groups may particularly enjoy these arrangements. The audio providesthe piano accompaniments alone. It can be used for back-up improvisatory play-along or for pleasant listening by itself. Includes two 24-page pull-out parts for Cello I and Cello II and access to online audio.

Cello Time Sprinters is the third book in this hugely successful series, building on the firm technical and stylistic foundations of Joggers and Runners by featuring extended pieces in first position, and fourth position pieces. The book includes original pieces in different styles, pieces by a range of composers, and duets with parts of equal difficulty, together with CDs of performances and backings. Straightforward piano accompaniments are available in a separate volume. Difficulty : Easy 32 pages 21 July 2005 Kathy Blackwell and David Blackwell Kathy Blackwell is an experienced peripatetic string teacher, currently teaching privately after many years working for Oxfordshire County Council. She has a special interest in teaching the violin and viola to young children, both individually and in groups. Her determination to find the very best pieces - well written and accessible, tuneful and catchy - led directly to the creation of the Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time series. David Blackwell has worked in publishing for Oxford University Press and ABRSM. He has conducted both adult and children's choirs, and published several fine choral arrangements. He has contributed pieces to several instrumental tutor books as well as co-writing Fiddle/Viola/Cello Time.

Book 1. Par SEVCIK OTAKAR. Otakar ?evcík's op. 2 is a fundamental tutor for teaching the violin. It focuses on the elementary problems of right-hand technique which ?evcík practises in 4,000 variants of systematically organized exercises for all bowings. This famous tutor has remained in use to the present day and is equally valued by players of other string instruments. The distinguished cellist Tomá? Jamník has arranged the 'School of Bowing Technique? for the violoncello, taking into account its differences from the violin. He has transcribed individual exercises for the violoncello without neglecting ?evcík's original pedagogical aims. As a result, this edition differs fundamentally from the only known cello arrangement of this opus by Louis R. Feuillard./ Etude / Violoncelle

Easy Classics for Cello is part of the Easy Classics Series written to provide beginning to intermediate students with an enjoyable introduction to classical music. This book features 16 solos and duets in cello-friendly keys with piano accompaniment. All of the pieces may be played as solos or duets and the content in this book is fully compatible with Easy Classics for Violin and Easy Classics for Viola.

As Just Beautiful has been so popular for Piano Organ and Violin here is a collection for Cello. The sumptuous slow melodies suit the Cello's mellow tone perfectly making Just Beautiful acollection that no cellist should be without. For Grade 3-5. Includes 26 pieces chosen by Kevin Mayhew by great composers such as Bach Chopin Handel Elgar Schumann and many more.

per violoncello e basso continuo-Similar to Vivaldi's concertos and compositions for violin his 9 cello sonatas also bear the mark of a genius of exuberant temperament. Since they belong to the basic repertory of the cello it increases the importance of the edition that the music includes the partly deviating performing marks of the surviving authentic sources of the pieces for the first time.

21 Etudes for Violoncello. ?More than 20 years ago I was called upon by friends, artists, and aficionados to write about fingerings for the violoncello,? then-famous Berlin cellist Jean-Louis Duport thus opens his ?Essai? from 1806, dedicated to ?Professeurs de Violoncelle?. His methodology revolutionized cello technique, and the 21 etudes printed in its appendix are still regarded today as perhaps the most important set of studies for all budding cellists. Modelled after the volumes of etudes for violin, Henle is also issuing the Urtext here, together with all original fingerings and bowings, while also offering alternatives by the famous cellist and teacher Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt. This edition also offers a second cello part provided by Duport for accompaniment.

60 popular themes from the movies in arrangements for solo Cello (level 2-3). The books in Alfred's Ultimate Movie Instrumental Solos series feature 60 film favourites in solo arrangements for Flute Clarinet Alto Saxophone Tenor Saxophone Trumpet Horn in F Trombone Violin Viola and Cello with optional Piano accompaniment. All wind instrument arrangements are fully compatible and can be successfully performed as ensembles or solos by students who have completed the first book of any standard band method. A fully orchestrated accompaniment MP3 CD is provided featuring each song as a live performance demo track followed by a play-along track. The CDalso contains a PDF of the Piano Accompaniment and Alfred's Tempo Changer Software. Please note: Due to level considerations regarding keys and instrument ranges the wind instrument arrangements are not compatible with the string instrument arrangements in this series.

Nos 14-21-The modern method of 'cello playing dates only from about the last third of the eighteenth century. While the great Italian masters had developed the art of the violin before the end of the seventeenth it remained for the Frenchman Jean-Louis Duport to bring order and system into the method of the 'cello. As a continuation of Book 1 these etudes are written to improve finger agility and bowing technique for the intermediate to advanced cellist.This edition of Duport’s Etudes has been edited and fingered by Leo Schulz.

The purpose of these transcriptions in the first position is to enable the young violoncello pupil to play and enjoy Bach after one year or less of instruction.Bach's Suites for Solo Violincello and Sonatas for Violoncelloand Piano are so difficult technically that years of practice are required before a student can attempt to play them.It is hoped that these pieces will prove to be a useful addition to the limited repertoire of thebeginning cellist.

The entire four movements of Henry Eccles’ Sonata in G Minor for ViolonCello and Piano remain in the key of G minor with many long expressive phrases and some moments of fleet-fingered delight.Henry Eccles was a Violinist and composer of the Baroque era who was a musician to King William and Queen Mary and a member of the Royal Band of Queen Anne. The Duke d’Aumont brought him to Paris where he entered the service of King Louis XIV. In 1720 Eccles published a book of sonatas for Violin and figured bass from which renowned English composer Malcolm Lipkin has created this arrangement for ‘Cello and Piano.

Team Strings 2 is ideal for individual group and class tuition allowing the violin viola or cello and double bass to be taught in the same lesson. This method contains carefully-graded music in a wide variety of styles developing instrument-related aural skills improvisation and composition. Includes 2-Octave Scales in the Keys of C Major F Major G Major/Minor and D Major/Minor. This edition includes a CD of digital backing tracks of all the melodies excerpts and pieces for individual and group use.

A second cello instruction book for individual or group tuition. Provides training in ensemble playing when used with the violin and viola books.