Because a fine orchestra depends on fine players, Solo Time for Strings emphasizes individual accomplishment, progress, and achievement while preparing young students for participation in a school orchestra. The series teaches reading in conjunction with note learning, enabling students to start playing melodies as soon as possible, and is appropriate for class or individual instruction. The solos assist in a progressive technical development from 'twinkle, twinkle' in Book 1 to music by Vivaldi in Book 5. / Contrebasse

An easy-to-teach straight forward string method from three renowned pedagogues. A unique letter-note style of music notation is utilized which ensures a smooth transition from rote to note reading. Students are quickly introduced to ensemble playing and play a wide variety of fun-to-play melodies keys and modes. Strictly Strings features a carefully prepared lesson sequence which develops all players' abilities equally.

This Bass Part book is ideally complimented by the Suzuki Bass School Volume 4 Piano accompaniment book catalogue number ALF28360. The Suzuki Method of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability and that man is the son of his environment. According to Dr. Suzuki a world-renowned violinist and teacher the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the 'mother-tongue' approach.

The Suzuki Method® of Talent Education is based on Dr. Shinichi Suzuki's view that every child is born with ability, and that people are the product of their environment. According to Dr. Suzuki, a world-renowned violinist and teacher, the greatest joy an adult can know comes from developing a child's potential so he/she can express all that is harmonious and best in human beings. Students are taught using the 'mother-tongue' approach. Now available as a book and CD kit. / Contrebasse

La construction des lignes de contrebasse est abordée de façon détaillée dans cet ouvrage : notes réelles, notes de passage et autres gammes, arpèges, cadences et anatoles y sont analysés pour vous permettre d'élaborer par la suite vos propres walkings. Les modes et les accords enrichis, matériaux essentiels à l'interprétation des walkings, sont aussi abordés de manière très complète. Des tourneries vous sont proposées dans les tonalités principales afin de vous familiariser et de vous apprendre les enchaînements d'accords courants et fréquents dans le jazz. C'est une sorte de dictionnaire des plans de contrebasse, à la fois pratique et didactique. En plus des walkings ou lignes de contrebasse, vous étudierez des rythmes latins et le rôle rythmique de l'instrument, tout en considérant la contrebasse comme une voix à part entière, qui chante dans l'orchestre. Le CD complète l'enseignement, en vous permettant d'entendre les nombreux exemples et autres morceaux, mais aussi de les interpréter sur des playbacks. / Contrebasse

This collection of 23 holiday favorites will not only motivate beginning string students in the classroom, but will also encourage home chamber music sessions. The flexible format allows the book to be used with any combination of instruments, from a solo player with piano accompaniment to a full string ensemble. Correlated with specific pages in the Strictly Strings method. / Contrebasse

Comme son titre l'indique clairement, la vocation première de cette méthode est de vous faire pratiquer la contrebasse jazz au travers de nombreux exemples et autres morceaux complets. Cet ouvrage sera l'occasion de travailler la construction des lignes de contrebasse et plus spécifiquement les notions de notes réelles, notes de passage et autres gammes, arpèges, modes, accords enrichis, cadences et anatoles, qui vous permettront d'élaborer par la suite vos propres walkings. De nombreuses tourneries vous sont proposées dans les tonalités principales, afin de vous familiariser avec les enchaînements d'accords courants et fréquents dans le jazz. Une sorte de dictionnaire des plans de contrebasse, pratique et didactique ! Enfin, le DVD Vidéo reprend chaque exercice pour en faciliter la compréhension, alors que le CD Audio vous propose de nombreux playbacks sur lesquels vous pourrez mettre en application les enseignements mais aussi vous exercer en toute liberté. / Contrebasse

18 Lektionen / 18 Lessons-The long awaited Sassmannshaus method Early Start on the Double Bass is now here. At last students of the largest instrument in the string family can make use of this tried and tested method for beginners developed by Egon Sassmannshaus for the other string instruments and applied here to the double bass by Holger Sassmannshaus and J. Peter Close. This method will meet the needs of the growing number of young bass students. “Early Start on the Double Bass” encompasses everything that one would expect from a Sassmannshaus method: an easy start progression at a suitable rate many cross-references to the other string instruments songsand scales in different positions from early on as well as many duets. Lively and colourful illustrations by Charlotte Panowsky complete the edition. For more than three decades “The Sassmannshaus Tradition” has been the household name for excellence in beginner string methods in German-speaking countries. The English editions for violin viola and violoncello which were introduced to the international market in 2008 have proven to be very successful particularly in the United States. Kids to the Bass!While children learning other string instruments can start as early as the age of four the appropriate age to begin the double bass is approximately eight (possibly even six); this allows for a faster progression than on the other string instruments and the method consists of only three volumes. The first volume will be published separately in an English and a German edition; the following two volumes will have German and English text in each book. Original compositions by Boguslaw Furtok enrich the volumes. Based on the tried-and-tested Sassmannshaus methods for violin viola and cello Volume 1: Separate editions in German and English Volumes 2 and 3: Bilingual German/English editions Moderate increase in difficulty Position playing duets Includes new original compositions by B. Furtok Volume 3 with piano accompaniments to 7 pieces The authorsHolger Sassmannshaus is a double bass player with the Niederrheinische Sinfoniker in

for String Quartet op. 35a-Josef Suk played second Violin in the Bohemian String Quartet. Since 1914 the ensemble was obliged to perform the Austrian national anthem at the opening of every concert. Suk decided to supplement this obligatory piece with a work inspired by the ancient sacred Bohemian St. Wenceslas hymn. The hymn?s message a plea for the well-being of the Czech people directed at their patron saint was immediately understood by the audience.The Bohemian String Quartet performed this single-movement Meditation for the first time on 27 September 1914; the premiere of the version for string orchestra followed on 22 November 1914 played by the CzechPhilharmonic. That same year the piece was published by Fr. A. Urbánek together with arrangements for Piano and Organ.This first Urtext edition prepared by the Sukscholar Zdenek Nouza is published in two scorings one for string quartet and another for String Orchestra (BA9584). The orchestral version differs in some details and has an added part for Double Bass.First Urtext editionInformative trilingual Foreword (Cz/Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng) by the editorTwo versions published in two separate editions

A good performing edition of this well-known concerto published here for the first time in its original key.Hire parts available (2 Oboes/2 Horns/Strings). Bucchi Competition Rome 1986.Chosen by AMEB (Australian Syllabus).