| The Violinist’s Daily Warm-Ups and Scale System Violon Carl Fischer
Chamber Music Violin SKU: CF.BF131 Composed by Roland Vamos. With Standar...(+)
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.â€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
2017Â 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. Â Â 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
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| Twelve Astrological Preludes Piano seul Camden Music
Piano SKU: BT.CM168 Composed by Roderick Elms. Classical. Book Only. Comp...(+)
Piano SKU:
BT.CM168 Composed by
Roderick Elms. Classical.
Book Only. Composed 2014.
Camden Music #CM168.
Published by Camden Music
(BT.CM168).
Twelve
Astrological Preludes
were written over a
period of roughly two
years and several were
broadcast on BBC Radio
2's Friday Night is Music
Night as well as in other
concerts. Aquarius was
written in 1994 as a
filler to apopular BBC
solo piano series of the
time called At the Piano.
It was named Aquarius for
programming purposes and
as Elms left the studio
the producer called after
him 'Only eleven to go'
and so Twelve
Astrological Preludes
cameinto
being.
The
preludes, which run in
the usual cycle, are
based upon two melodic
strands and there is one
piece in each of the
twelve major keys. The
character and style of
each prelude alludes
to certaincharactertraits
of its particular birth
sign and each piece bears
the initials of a friend
born under that
particular sign.
Each prelude is prefaced
by a printed description
of some of the general
characteristics deemed to
beassociated with that
sign. These are, of
course, generalisations!
Some preludes show a
little deference to some
of my favourite
'masters'.
Elms
has recorded Twelve
Astrological Preludes for
the Herald label and they
areavailable on the CD
Moody Moves together with
other pieces of his
chamber music including
the piano sextet from
which the CD takes its
name. More information is
available at
masterkeyboards.co.uk.
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| Chicago: The Musical (Vocal Selections) Piano, Voix [Partition] Faber Music Limited
Published by Faber Music Ltd. ISBN 9780571527632. 'If you can't be famous be in...(+)
Published by Faber Music
Ltd. ISBN 9780571527632.
'If you can't be famous
be infamous.' The Chicago
musical has captured the
imagination of audiences
everywhere for many
years. The recent film
starring Catherine
Zeta-Jones and Renee
Zellweger brought the
tale to an even wider
audience. This album
contains twelve songs
from the stage
production.
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| Lieder with Piano Accompaniment Op. 66 Piano, Voix Schott
Clothbound German and English Piano Accompaniment; Voice (Voice and Piano) SK...(+)
Clothbound German and
English Piano
Accompaniment; Voice
(Voice and Piano) SKU:
HL.49047152 Series
II: Lieder and Songs for
One Voice Hardcover.
Composed by Richard
Strauss. Edited by
Andreas Pernpeintner and
Sebastian Bolz. Edition
Schott. Classical.
Hardcover. Schott Music
#RSW205. Published by
Schott Music
(HL.49047152). UPC:
196288136620. In
1918 a twelve-year phase
came to an end during
which Richard Strauss had
completely turned his
back on the composition
of lieder.Plausible
explanations for this
period of abstinence
range from StraussÂ’s
focus on stage works
during this time to the
fact that hiswife
Pauline, who had
previously constituted
the composer's
“ideal
performer†of his
lieder and frequently
been the source of
inspiration for these
compositions, had ended
her career as a singer.
After not having produced
any new lieder during
these twelve years,
Strauss was equally
consistent in the
resumption of lied
composition – at
least in the year 1918
that would prove to be
the most intensive
“lieder yearâ€
in his entire
compositional career with
the composition of opp.
66, 67, 68 and 69 (a
grand total of 29 lieder,
in addition to the
orchestration of six
piano lieder composed in
former years). The
current volume includes
the lieder dating from
1918 up to Strauss's
death in 1949 in their
original language and
pitch. German and
English. $325.00 - Voir plus => Acheter | | |
| The Twelve Chinese Zodiac Animals, Book 1 Piano seul Promethean Editions
Chamber Music Piano SKU: PO.PE212 Composed by Vincent Ho. Performance Sco...(+)
Chamber Music Piano
SKU: PO.PE212
Composed by Vincent Ho.
Performance Score.
Promethean Editions
#PE212. Published by
Promethean Editions
(PO.PE212). ISBN
9781776609321. Insp
ired by the Chinese
Zodiac animals, Ho
tailored this book of
twelve piano compositions
to the educational needs
of students in Levels 2
to 7 of the Royal
Conservatory of Music
Piano Series. Ho devoted
much time to researching
the animals legends,
personality traits, and
cultural significance, as
well as their
distinguishing physical
languages so as to
capture their musical
spirit and recreate their
physical/gestural
languages in pianistic
form. In addition, he
incorporates many sounds,
harmonies, and
performance techniques
learned from his years of
researching (and
composing for) Chinese
traditional
instruments. $42.50 - Voir plus => AcheterDélais: 4 to 6 weeks | | |
| One Big Family Piano seul - Intermédiaire GIA Publications
Twenty new songs for contemporary all-age worship. Composed by William Lle...(+)
Twenty new songs for
contemporary all-age
worship.
Composed by William
Llewellyn. Children.
Royal
School of Church Music.
Sacred. 68 pages. GIA
Publications #9549.
Published
by GIA Publications
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