Chamber Music Violin

SKU: CF.BF131

Composed by Roland Vamos. With Standard notation. 168 pages. Carl Fischer Music #BF131. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.BF131).

ISBN 9781491153765. UPC: 680160911264. 9 x 12 inches.

Inspired by Clarence Cameron White’s book The Violinist’s Daily Dozen, The Violinist’s Daily Sixteen is a collection of daily exercises compiled by Roland Vamos. Intended for student and professional violinists, the collection provides the performer with a variety of exercises for daily warm-ups. Mr. Vamos also focuses on developing dexterity and flexibility in the fingers and joints, the first and fourth fingers in particular. Each of the sixteen exercises is notated for each of the four strings, and Vamos recommends that the exercises be practiced as warm-ups, choosing a different string for each day of practice.Also included with the Daily Sixteen is a comprehensive set of studies for developing fluency with scales and arpeggios. Mr. Vamos’ unique methodology is to begin with major scales and arpeggios, followed by minor scales and arpeggios, all of which are notated in two, three and four octaves. Alternate fingers are provided, as well as a variety of slurred and mixed bowings using the three parts of the bow whenever feasible. It is a remarkably systematic approach to performing scales and arpeggios on the violin and will surely benefit students and professionals alike.
ForewordThis short hand-setting set of exercises was inspired by a book entitled The Violinist’s Daily Dozen, conceived by Clarence Cameron White, a prominent African-American violinist, composer and arranger who enjoyed the bulk of his career in the first half of the twentieth century.I have practiced this set of exercises since I was twelve years old. It has served me as a superb warm-up and hand setting tool. Over the years, I have found that there are some aspects of this warm-up routine that were not given sufficient attention or not addressed at all. Consequently, I have expanded the Daily Dozen to create a new work entitled The Violinist’s Daily Sixteen.I have also paid particular attention in this work as to how these exercises are to be practiced. In exercises one and two, I have indicated some notes to be played before the actual written exercises. This is to ensure that the fourth finger will be over the string in a position ready to strike even though it is not being used. Before playing exercises three, four, nine, ten, eleven and twelve, I have indicated silent fingers to be placed on the notes they would be playing if they were being used.I have replaced Mr. White’s grace notes with notes of specific value and have slowed down the exercises so that the first joint (the joint nearest the string) of each finger can move with flexibility and strength. At no time should the first joint buckle.In Mr. White’s version, the last exercise gave the first finger some very valuable backward extensions. In this exercise (number 14 in this book), I caution the student not to move the hand along with the first finger. The hand should remain in position while the first finger independently moves back and forth.It became obvious to me that if the first finger were given the opportunity to develop the dexterity that Mr. White’s twelfth exercise emphasizes, the fourth finger could benefit from an exercise that gives it a forward extension. Consequently, I added another exercise to create a Baker’s Dozen (thirteen).Several years later, I felt that the second and third fingers should also have an exercise to further develop their dexterity…hence exercise fourteen was added to create a “Vamos Dozen.”Because the first finger did not have sufficient practice in the development of the first joint in the original version, I have added two exercises to precede White’s fifth exercise. After re-working and re-numbering these exercises, I have come up with a total of sixteen exercises. It is my suggestion that these be practiced as a warm-up, choosing a different string each day.—Roland VamosEvanston, Illinois 2017 PrefaceScales are a means of teaching a person the fingerboard on his or her instrument. The fingers move across the strings and are required to make shifts, all in highly organized patterns. Scales and arpeggios are the foundation upon which our repertoire is built. Many scale books have been written; each one being organized in its own specific way. The Flesch Scale System has been a standard for many decades. It is very comprehensive and systematic. From the point of view of establishing similar patterns, it has one drawback: it is organized by starting with a major key, followed by its relative minor, going through the circle of fifths. I believe that it is more profitable to do only major scales with their arpeggios first, going up chromatically, and then follow them in a similar way with the minor scales. In using this approach, the similarities in fingerings between the various scales are more apparent. It is also profitable to have alternate fingerings whenever possible. My approach to scales and arpeggios includes a variety of slurred and mixed bowings using the three parts of the bow whenever feasible. These bowings are not all-inclusive. Whenever a particularly awkward bowing pattern is encountered in the repertoire, it can be practiced as an additional bowing variation in the scales and arpeggios.    I have chosen to introduce the three and four octave scales by teaching two octave scales across the strings in one position going up chromatically through seven positions; starting on the first, second, third, and finally fourth fingers in major and melodic minor.—Roland VamosEvanston, Illinois 2017.

Chamber Music Violin

SKU: PR.114418750

Composed by Michael Hersch. Sws. Performance Score. 8 pages. Duration 11 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #114-41875. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.114418750).

ISBN 9781491129524. UPC: 680160655489. 9 x 12 inches.

The seven-movement in the snowy margins might be considered a sort of atomic suite, as each movement is succinct, yet a microcosmic powerhouse inspired by “The Comet,” by Polish writer and Holocaust victim Bruno Schulz. Hersch’s intensity is expressed through dramatically captivating violin gestures, pushing the boundaries of texture, technique, and emotion.
Michael Hersch’s in the snowy margins was written in 2010. Like much of his work, it is grounded in literature and art. The title is drawn from a short story, The Comet by Polish writer, poet, and artist, Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). This forms the last of his collection The Street of Crocodiles, published in 1934. Schulz was shot by a Nazi officer in 1942.Both the title of Hersch’s work, and the ‘motto’ found on the composer’s manuscript (‘Thus far and no further. But what has become of the end of the world…’) are to be found in The Comet. It’s interesting that in in the snowy margins, unlike his earlier Fourteen Pieces which were inspired by the poetry of Primo Levi, Hersch chose to not title each individual movement with a quote. However his choices of text are applied, there is a clear quality of distillation. In every case, the texts which the composer has chosen to eschew lie beneath the music, akin to the greater mass of an iceberg, submerged, but imminent.Hersch also has very particular taste in visual art, and there seems to be common ground between the intensely expressionist drawing of Schulz, and those of Michael Mazur, which inspired his string quartet Images from a Closed Ward. The parallels between these artists reflect common traits shared between these two pieces, which provide a window on how the music should be approached, expressively and technically. I would argue, that from a violinist’s point of view, this pertains directly to how bow and left hand should approach the string: the febrile vibrancy of both Mazur and Schulz’s pencil and charcoal strokes, perhaps what T.S. Eliot called the ‘circulation of the lymph’, in every gesture, speaks to the intense experience, physically and emotionally, of playing (and hearing) this music. There is an intense sense of ‘truth to materials’ at every moment, the sense that every note sings on the edge of, or even beyond, total collapse.— Peter Sheppard-Skaerved.

Composed by Martin Norgaard and Laurie Scott. Wire bound. Modern Method. Book and online audio. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc

Composed by George Perlman. De Haske Study and Play. Book with CD. Composed 2005. 24 pages. De Haske Publications #DHP 1053792-400. Published by De Haske Publications

By Samuel Applebaum. For Violin. String Orchestra Method/Supplement. Book. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Violin. Composed by Henry Schradieck. Edited by Benjamin Bergmann. String Method. Classical. Softcover. 96 pages. Schott Music #ED22004. Published by Schott Music

Violin Method. By Ruggiero Ricci. (Violin). String Method. Size 9x12 inches. 56 pages. Published by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Violin

SKU: M7.VOGG-675

Composed by Christine Galka. Sheet music with CD. 64 pages. Voggenreiter #VOGG 675. Published by Voggenreiter (M7.VOGG-675).

ISBN 9783802406751. English.

The ideal way of getting into playing the violin!This violin method provides the beginning as well as the advanced violinist with the main step-by-step information on playing the violin. Many photos show the correct way of holding the violin and bow.Musical notation and music theory are explained in an easy-to-understand manner.The well-chosen musical pieces teayh the basics of playing the violin from the very first notes to well-known pieces. Fingering diagrams and scales help the student to quickly feel at home on the violin.The encluded CD contains all songs wirh accompaniment.Practicing with a jazz trio is a lot of fun and will pep up your playing.

Violin - easy

SKU: BT.1387-06-400-S

Arranged by Andre Waignein. Book with CD. Composed 2006. 40 pages. Scherzando #1387-06-400 S. Published by Scherzando (BT.1387-06-400-S).

ISBN 9789043125161. 9x12 inches. French.

Der Schatz an französischen Volksliedern ist endlos! Einfache Strophen, einfache Refrains, einfache Rhythmen - aus einfachen Zutaten ergeben sich unendlich viele Kombinationsmöglichkei ten. Diese 36 französischen Kinderlieder haben schon viele Generationen glücklich gemacht. Einige davon sind auch bei uns bekannt!Mit Klavierbegleitung auf CD.

Des mots, quelques strophes, un refrain, une mélodie et un rythme simples. Si peu de choses, au fond, et pourtant, si diverses, toujours actuelles et jamais démodées ! Ainsi, les 36 chansons traditionnelles rassemblées dans ce recueil ont été chantées par plusieurs générations d’enfants. Que du bonheur ! (Avec compact disc et accompagnement de piano).

Violin Solo

SKU: SU.80102892

For Violin Solo. Composed by Daria Semegen. Strings, Violin. Score. Subito Music Corporation #80102892. Published by Subito Music Corporation (SU.80102892).

This work for unaccompanied violin was chosen in 1978 by the jury of the International Society for Contemporary Music to represent the United States at the World Music Days Festival in Helsinki and Stockholm. It has been recorded on Opus One No. 59. 10 pages Published by: Columbia University Music Press.