By Gerald E. Anderson. Edited by Robert Frost. Orchestra Method/Study. All for Strings Method. Level: Elementary. Music Book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

Composed by James Newton Howard. Arranged by Robert Longfield. Pop Specials for Strings. Movies. Published by Hal Leonard

By Kerstin Wartberg. For Strings. String - (Suzuki) Supplementary. Book and CD. 48 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Violin

SKU: HL.48024637

Handbook for Teachers and Parents. Composed by Geza Szilvay. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 303 pages. Fennica Gehrman #M550112490. Published by Fennica Gehrman (HL.48024637).

ISBN 9781540055583. UPC: 888680946166.

Accor ding to Geza Szilvay, the Colourstrings (r) method can make a violin player of almost anyone with motivation. The key to maintaining musical culture lies with the teacher. The Colourstrings (r) is a teaching method developed by Geza and Csaba Szilvay. Themethod is ideal for preschool beginners and can be used effectively in instrumental teaching throughout the school years. It createsan environment in which singing, playing games and instrument live side by side, for the happiness of the child. The Handbook for Teachers and Parents brings together the entire Colourstrings(r) series for the violin. The Handbook guides the teachers and parents through books A-F and Yellow Pages I-III, offering expert advice and methodological support to teaching in Colourstrings(r) method. The method makes use of colourful teaching materials and supports learning by appealing to many senses. Founded on the principles ofZoltan Kodaly, Colourstrings (r) develops the capacity for internal listening so that the child learns to visualize the notes heard and to aurilize the notes on the page. The method has been fostered by ESTA, ASTA, AUSTA, ISME, NMPU and IKS. The Colourstrings(r) approach developed by the Szilvay brothers has gained an international reputation and is now taught all over the world. A number of special Colourstrings(r) institutions - schools, centres and societies - have been established in several European countries in order to implement and further this child-centred teaching concept.

By Gerald Anderson. Edited by Robert Frost. (Afs Strg Mthd). orchestra method. Level: Elementary. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

By Gerald Anderson. Edited by Robert Frost. (Afs Strg Mthd). orchestra method. Level: Elementary. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company

By Gerald Anderson. Edited by Robert Frost. (Afs Strg Mthd). orchestra method. Level: Elementary. Music book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

A violin method for children age four and older. Composed by Egon Saßmannshaus and Kurt Sassmannshaus. Stapled. With a Chinese text booklet. Performance score. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10753. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

(A violin method for children age four and older). By Egon Sassmannshaus; Kurt Sassmannshaus. For violin. This edition: Stapled. Barenreiter's Sassmannshaus. With a French text supplement. Instructional. Performance score, Teaching material. Text Language: English/French. 64/11 pages. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

A cello method for children age four and older. Composed by Egon Saßmannshaus and Kurt Sassmannshaus. Stapled. With a Chinese text booklet. Performance score. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA10756. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag

By Ron Manus, Link Harnsberger, and Nathaniel Gunod. For Guitar. Book; CD; Guitar Method or Supplement; Method/Instruction. Children. 96 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

C Edition. Composed by Various. Fake Book. Broadway, Country, Jazz, Pop, Standards. Softcover. 802 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

Cello solo

SKU: BR.EB-8817

Materialien fur die Unterstufe. Composed by Michael Dartsch and Susanne Richter. Solo instruments; Softbound. Edition Breitkopf.

This large volume is designed for the young beginner cellist, and is attractively presented with large print and enchanting colour illustrations. (Stringendo AUSTA)

Music pedagogy. Score. 124 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #EB 8817. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.EB-8817).

ISBN 9790004183830. 9 x 12 inches.

The Cellokasten (Cello Case) offers a wealth of varied material for the beginner. Like the successful Geigenkasten, it can be used in teaching as a supplement to any cello method. And with its steadily increasing level of difficulty within each chapter, it can also serve as a kind of instruction method as well. The chapters are devoted to the following topics: - Games of posture and movement - Music on open strings and fundamentals of bowing technique - Playing with close stops and wide-stretch stops, high and low - Combination of close stop, wide-stretch stop and chromaticism - Playing, reading, notating rhythms; reading and notating tones as well as improvisation in the chapter Inventing Music . Along with lyrics for singing, there is almost always a second part, which lets two cello lovers make music together. The book offers songs and cello pieces for a variety of occasions and for every season. Interesting information about the instrument is also scattered throughout the book.

This large volume is designed for the young beginner cellist, and is attractively presented with large print and enchanting colour illustrations. (Stringendo AUSTA).

(The Easiest Ukulele Method Ever!). By Ron Manus and L. C. Harnsberger. For Ukulele. Book; CD; DVD; Method/Instruction; Ukulele Method or Supplement. Alfred's Kids Course. Children. Beginner. 120 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(The Easiest Ukulele Method Ever!). By Ron Manus and L. C. Harnsberger. For Ukulele. Book; CD; Method/Instruction; Ukulele Method or Supplement. Alfred's Kids Course. Children. Beginner. 120 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Orchestra Piano

SKU: PR.11641861SP

Composed by William Kraft. Part. 35 pages. Duration 21 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #116-41861SP. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.11641861SP).

UPC: 680160685202.

What? ! - my composer colleagues said - A concerto for the piano? It's a 19th century instrument! Admittedly we are in an age when originally created timbres and/or musico-technological formulations are often the modus operandi of a piece. Actually, this Concerto began about two years ago when, during one of my creative jogs, the sound of the uppermost register of the piano mingled with wind chimes penetrated my inner ear. The challenge and fascination of exploring and developing this idea into an orchestral situation determined that some day soon I would be writing a work for piano and orchestra. So it was a very happy coincidence when Mona Golabek phoned to tell me she would like discuss the Ford Foundation commission. After covering areas of aesthetics and compositional styles, we found that we had a good working rapport, and she asked if I would accept the commission. The answer was obvious. Then began the intensive thought process on the stylistic essence and organization of the work. Along with this went a renewed study of idiomatic writing for the piano, of the kind Stravinsky undertook with the violin when he began his Violin Concerto. By a stroke of great fortune, the day in February 1972 that I received official notice from the Ford Foundation of the commission, I also received a letter from the Guggenheim Foundation informing me I had been awarded my second fellowship. With the good graces of Zubin Mehta and Ernest Fleischmann, masters of my destiny as a member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, I was relieved of my orchestral duties during the Hollywood Bowl season. Thus I was able to go to Europe to work and to view the latest trends in music concentrating in London (the current musical melting pot and showcase par excellence), Oslo, Norway, for the Festival of Scandinavian Music called Nordic Days, and Warsaw, Poland, for its prestigious Autumn Festival. Over half the Concerto was completed in that summer and most of the rest during the 72-73 season with the final touches put on during a month as Resident Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation's Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy. So much for the external and environmental influences, except perhaps to mention the birds of Sussex in the first movement, the bells of Arhus (Denmark) in the second movement and the bells of Bellagio at the end of the Concerto. Primary in the conception was the personality of Miss Golabek: she is a wonderfully vital and dynamic person and a real virtuoso. Therefore, the soloist in the Concerto is truly the protagonist; it is she (for once we can do away with the generic he) who unfolds the character and intent of the piece. The first section is constructed in the manner of a recitative - completely unmeasured - with letters and numbers by which the conductor signals the orchestra for its participation. This allows the soloist the freedom to interpret the patterns and control the flow and development of the music. The Concerto is actually in one continuous movement but with three large divisions of sufficiently contrasting character to be called movements in themselves. The first 'movement' is based on a few timbral elements: 1) a cluster of very low pitches which at the beginning are practically inaudibly depressed, and sustained silently by the sostenuto pedal, which causes sympathetic vibrating pitches to ring when strong notes are struck; 2) a single powerful note indicated by a black note-head with a line through it indicating the strongest possible sforzando; 3) short figures of various colors sometimes ominous, sometimes as splashes of light or as elements of transition; 4) trills and tremolos which are the actual controlling organic thread starting as single axial tremolos and gradually expanding to trills of increasingly larger and more powerful scope. The 'movement' begins in quiescent repose but unceasingly grows in energy and tension as the stretching of a string or rubber band. When it can no longer be restrained, it bursts into the next section. The second 'movement,' propelled by the released tension, is a brilliant virtuosic display, which begins with a long solo of wispy percussion, later joined in duet with the piano. Not to be ignored, the orchestra takes over shooting the material throughout all its sections like a small agile bird deftly maneuvering through nothing but air, while the piano counterposes moments of lyricism. The orchestra reaches a climax, thrusting us into the third 'movement' which begins with a cadenza-like section for the piano. This moves gently into an expressive section (expressive is not a negative term to me) in which duets are formed with various instruments. There are fleeting glimpses of remembrances past, as a fragmented recapitulation. One glimpse is hazily expressed by strings and percussion in a moment of simultaneous contrasting levels of activity, a technique of which I have been fond and have utilized in various fixed-free relationships, particularly in my Percussion Concerto, Contextures and Games: Collage No. 1. The second half of the third 'movement; is a large coda - akin to those in Beethoven - which brings about another display of virtuosity, this time gutsy and driving, raising the Concerto to a final climax, the soloist completing the fragmented recapitulation concept as well as the work with the single-note sforzando and low cluster from the very opening of the first movement.

Strings - Violin Violin and Piano

SKU: AY.FRD41

Composed by John La Montaine. Strings - Violin. Fredonia Press #FRD41. Published by Fredonia Press (AY.FRD41).

ISBN 9790302114673.

John La Montaine's Conversations was composed so that it might be realized in terms of a variety of instruments with piano. The four movements (Encounter, Dispute, Affections, and Word Games) are based on a twelve-tone row which forms the basis of both the solo and accompaniment parts. Serial technique is carefully and consistently used throughout, though listeners might not even realize it!

(A Comprehensive Guide to Guitars, Amps, and Effects for the Dedicated Guitarist). By Tobias Hurwitz. For Guitar. Book; CD; Guitar Reference; Reference Textbooks. The Serious Guitarist. 128 pages. Published by Alfred Music

By Various. The Little Black Songbook. Pop. Softcover. Published by Hal Leonard