25 Easy Pieces in 1st Position-Why a book with jazz duets for cello beginners' T...(+)
25 Easy Pieces in 1st Position-Why a book with jazz duets for cello beginners' This book of duets by the Italian jazz cellist and teacher Lucio Amanti wants to give cellists a first introduction into the jazz styles. All 25 pieces are written for the first cello in the first position with the pieces becoming gradually more demanding with regard to fingering bowing and harmony.Many of the pieces contain harmonic symbols in order to give the pupil (and the teacher) the chance to try their first improvisations. They can first play the piece as notated in the book and then repeat the section notated with chords as if it were a jazz standard. A new and fresh impetus for cello lessons!
Excellently arranged cello duets of Bizet's Toreador Song and Habaner...(+)
Excellently arranged cello duets of Bizet's Toreador Song and Habanera from Carmen Mozart's Non piu andrai from The Marriage of Figaro and Puccini's Your tiny hand is frozen from La Bohème. Tune and accompaniment is shared between the two players making them a lot of fun to play. Suitable for amateurs students of at least Grade 6 playing standard (UK examination boards) and professionals they make maximum use of the range of tone colours a cello can produce. Listen to theduets on Soundcloud performed by the arranger Joanna Borrett and Mark Bailey. A CD is available to purchase from www.fedorastrings.com
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2135-In 1839 Friedrich August Kummer...(+)
Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics Vol. 2135-In 1839 Friedrich August Kummer (1797-1879) wrote Violoncelloschule für den ersten Unterricht(Violoncello School for Preliminary Instruction) Op. 60. The method has remained a staple ofteaching literature ever since.As an appendix to this work Kummer composed several duets of increasing difficulty that can be paired with the topics and exercises learned in the lessons. As cello technique changed duringthe nineteenth century several cellists (Friedrich Dotzauer Bernhard Romberg and Leo Schulty) added other duets bringing the total to 110. Selected Pupil/Teacher Cello Duets contains the first 85collected in the 1900 Schirmer edition of these etudes extracted to be used in lessons to enforce technical and musical issues as they arise.
