Instrumental Play-Along-This volume in the Hal Leonard Instrumental Play-Along series features 12 of the most popular songs by the iconic British songstress Adele arranged for the Cello. The price of this book includes access to online audio demonstration and backing tracks that allow instrumentalists to slow down the audio without changing pitch loop for challenging parts and more. Songs include: All I Ask Chasing Pavements Make You Feel My Love Hello Million Years Ago Remedy Rolling in the Deep Set Fire To The Rain Rumour Has It Skyfall Someone like You and When We Were Young.

As a prestigious composer of the late 18th century Luigi Boccherini's (1743-1805) Rondo transcribed for the Cello by Paul Bazelaire contains many features which continue to make the composer's music popular and loved to this day. Known for his courtly gallant style Rondo originally composed for Violin and Harpsichord clearly exemplifies these qualities through the 2/4 time signature flourishing Cello lines and evocative chordal and rhythmic Piano accompaniment. Moreover syncopation rhythms and ornamentation heard throughout the piece create further excitement. All of these musical elementscombine to create a highly enjoyable piece for the Cello repertoire. In addition the clear print of separate Cello and Piano parts in this edition of Rondo add to this irresistable purchase for budding cellists.

The Cello Time Student Pack is a great starter bundle for all young Cello players. Each pack provides a book of lively tunes and well-known pieces everything you need to make learning scales and arpeggios fun a notebook with alternate plain and manuscript pages for lesson notes and a pack of entertaining cartoon stickers.

From Elgar to Blake Show Tunes to Spirituals - variety is the spice of musical life and the essence of First Repertoire For Cello. In the three books which make up the series there are over 40 carefully graded elementary pieces which skilfully explore the Cello's unique sonorities and provide a superb introductory literature for the young player.

Paperback-This collection contains all the extant shorter pieces by Rebecca Clarke for cello and piano both original compositions and arrangements. Clarke's transcriptions make up around half of her works for cello. They are always carefully crafted and are therefore often significantly different from the orginals.

The most important source for Bach’s Cello Suites is a copy made by his wife Anna Magdalena because the autograph is no longer extant. As further copies show the actual musical text is scarcely problematic. However the slurs which are particularly important for string instruments are very inexact and compel the editor to make difficult decisions.Henle's practical edition HN666 is in two parts. It not only offers the Urtext edition withpreface and critical commentary but also a part for playing. The new study edition contains the Urtext part but in addition offers a reproduction of Anna Magdalena’s copy. This means that both cellists and music lovers alikeare able to form their own opinion about the much discussed problems.

In this reprint of Scales And Arpeggios the author has aimed to set out the scales in order of progressive difficulty using single scale two-strings-scale and arpeggio to make a study that is quite difficult but a fantastic way to learn essential technique and ability. The study of scales and arpeggios on the Cello is exceptionally important. A devotion to this study is essential to every cellist who wants to apply himself with earnest purposes to the musical art as a player. In this updated reprint the author has added a combination to the scales of four octaves in order to improve more mastery of the fingerboard and the combinations ofarpeggios have been added.

Traffic (ABRSM grade 4-8) presents exciting new pieces for cello and piano from performer and composer Mats Lidström. These engaging works make a point of introducing less experienced players to techniques such as harmonics use of the mute playing near the bridge tremolo and glissando. The pieces contain drama passion wide dynamic range and swift musical contrasts.

These engaging works make a point of introducing less experienced player to techniques such as harmonics use of mute playing near the bridge tremolo and glissando.Spooky Pieces (ABRSM grade 2-4) are exciting new pieces for cello and piano from performer and composer Mats Lidström. The pieces contain drama passion wide dynamic range and swift musical contrasts.

The Tricks To Tunes series is designed for teaching mixed string instruments in groups. It is a systematic program developed over many years from many years experience teaching strings in schools. The tutors are aimed at the primary and lower secondary school age group but are also suitable for older beginners.The children learn ‘tricks’ for their fingers or bows which are fun when done in a group. Reading skills are developed at the same time.Each page represents a small step in musical and technical development based on reading music from the very first lessons. Theory homework is included at the end of most sections providing the complete theoryrequired as children progress.The tutors for each instrument are identical in content except where differences are required to accommodate the different instruments.Books 1 and 2 of the series are each intended to cover one year of group tuition based on a school year of 40 weeks. Book 3 provides material for two years. Progress will vary according to the age of the children the size of the group and the extent of their previous musical experience.Additional repertoire at the end of the books provides: extension work for pupils who reach the end of the book before the rest of the group additional work for those who want it and end of year concert pieces. These brilliant tutors make playing music fun as it should be!

Urtext. Par DOTZAUER JUSTUS JOHANN FRIEDRICH. Dotzauer's études have been part of the standard repertoire in cello lessons for generations. Our new edition of the 12 Études Op. 107 follows the original sources and contains the original text. While the Dotzauer études are usually only available in selected editions today, opus 107 is edited here in its entirety, as conceived by the composer himself. Notes on studying and on the performance practice (dynamics, vibrato, change of position, ornamentation, bowings) make the new edition an ideal reference edition for music lessons. The Études Op. 107 contain some of Dotzauer's best-known études of medium difficulty, in the 1st to 4th position and with major technical problems such as arpeggios, velocity, string crossings, slow and fast bowing, double stops, two-part playing, etc. / Date parution : 2022-02-15/ Etude / Violoncelle

Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally ‘going solo’ with a series ofmeticulously graded sight-reading pieces. New edition devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

The Violoncello Studies by Bernhard Cossmann (1822-1910) provide specific exercises for the development of the left hand such as double stop trill studies finger dexterity exercises chord scale and thumb position studies which intensively include the use of the fourth finger in particular. This is what gives these studies their special value and make them indispensable to the training as a cellist. They are aimed at the advanced pupil and student but also at the professionally trained cellist who wants to improve and maintain the dexterity and velocity of the left-hand fingers by means of short exercises.

Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill, enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series, by renowned educationalist Paul Harris, is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems, especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece, firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues, then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions, and finally ?going solo? with a series of meticulously graded sight-reading pieces. New edition, devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

Most compendiums of studies and exercises suffer the same fate as the infamous home-trainers: one sets out full of good intentions but after a few weeks of blood sweat and tears they are left to gather dust in a corner. Why? Any athlete prefers a proper cross-country run to a stint on the treadmill. If there is variety and a chance to make decisions all the senses become involved. May this set of studies be spared the fate of the exercise-machine; rather they should serve as the equivalent of a cross-country run with people feeling liberated ‘with-it’ and keen to set and achieve their own targets.