Book with Audio and Video Access. Preface by Jay Ungar, composer of Ashokan Farewell. A Festival of Violin and Fiddle Styles presents 23 styles and is chock full of right- and left-hand techniques, exercises, and advice designed to help violinists, violists and cellists step into inclusive, 21st century skills as well as repertoire. This jam-packed book includes tips from an incredible array of multi-genre and roots-specific players including: Jay Ungar, Bruce Molsky, Darol Anger, Mark Wood, Aly Bain, Roby Lakatos, Don Roy, Calvin Vollrath, Paul Anastasio, and more. Styles include old-time, bluegrass, Cajun, Franco-American, western swing, blues, swing, pop/rock, Irish, Scottish, Shetland Islands, Cape Breton,Hungarian, Ukrainian, Klezmer, Roma, Calentano, Galician, Afro-Cuban, tango, Swedish, Bollywood, Quebecois, and Metis. Online audio includes playing examples of all the fiddle tunes in the book, followed by background music so you can continue to play on your own. Videos include expert instruction on fiddle techniques like bowing, slurs, slides, vibrato, and ornamentation. / Pédagogie / Recueil / Alto

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For this performance, Dvorák used a copy of the score which he had personally examined and which later served as the engraver's copy. The Dvorák scholar Klaus Döge succeeded in tracking down its location and evaluating this important source for the first time. It contains the 'Fassung letzter Hand' and, moreover, offers valuable insights into Dvorák's conducting workshop. It served as the principal source for the Breitkopf Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Alto

Par HARVEY JONATHAN. This piece for solo viola was written for Andrew Toovey. It was first performed by John Metcalf at the Brighton Festival on May 22nd 1993./ Répertoire / Alto