Cello Play-Along Volume 6-The Cello Play-Along series will help you to play your favourite songs quickly and easily on the Cello. This volume features all 11 pieces from The Piano Guys' album Uncharted - simply follow the printed sheet music and then play along using the original backing tracks. The Piano Guys' sixth studio album Uncharted reached number 1 in the US classical charts following its release in 2016. The album contains Themes from Pirates Of The Caribbean Can't Stop The Feeling from the DreamWorks Animation film Trolls and an inspired blend of Adele's Hello and Mozart'sLacrimosa amongst eight other beautiful melodies. Available online for download or streaming the backing tracks included with this book feature audio recorded by The Piano Guys. Watch the official music video for The Piano Guys' Hello/Lacrimosa:

Team Strings 2 is ideal for individual group and class tuition allowing the violin viola or cello and double bass to be taught in the same lesson. This method contains carefully-graded music in a wide variety of styles developing instrument-related aural skills improvisation and composition. Book only edition.

This collection of sixteen original imaginative studies for solo cello has been specially designed for young players of Grades 1-3 ability. Throughout the book progressive technical points go hand-in-hand with musical development. The studies cover a variety of keys modes rhythmic patterns and styles including jazz while also encouraging self-expression. The descriptive titles are intended to help the cellist play in a style appropriate to each study. Teachers and pupils will find this invaluable yet light-hearted collection both enjoyable and stimulating.

Fourteen original imaginative studies for solo cello specially designed to lead on from elementary studies for younger players to the more advanced material of Dotzauer and Popper. Each piece concentrates on one or two aspects of technique and the whole set covers a wide range of left and right hand skills including spicatto bowing string crossing moto perpetuo cantabile and easy double stopping. Teachers and pupils will find this invaluable yet light-hearted collection both enjoyable and stimulating.

Does the thought of sight-reading make you groan? The ability to sight-read fluently is a vital skill enabling you to learn new pieces more quickly and play with other musicians. The best-selling Improve Your Sight-reading! series by renowned educationalist Paul Harris is designed to help you overcome all your sight-reading problems especially in the context of graded exams. Step by step you build up a complete picture of each piece firstly through rhythmic and melodic exercises related to specific technical issues then by studying prepared pieces with associated questions and finally ‘going solo’ with a series ofmeticulously graded sight-reading pieces. New edition devised to support the revised sight-reading criteria from the ABRSM from 2012.

Introduces cello technique from the start taking the player up to grade one level. This title takes an imaginative child-orientated approach throughout encouraging interaction and the exploration of new sound worlds through a variety of music.

A Song without Words for Violoncello Solo-Manfred Trojahn on the origin and title of his impressive virtuoso solo work:'Admittedly I do not know if he had seagulls but since Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg he will not have gone through life without at least the impression of the cry of seagulls. Nor do I know if seagulls played any part in his life in Rome. I myself was astonished when one or two years ago in the Villa Massimo I was not exactly annoyed but disturbed by the strong rhythmical cry of seagulls. I was just about to write a bassoon solo when the seagulls started. Then the idea came to me that precisely this sequence of notes could serve as the basis of the work. And the sequence for thebassoon solo is in turn the basis of the piece for violoncello - this is how titles are born... Of course the violoncello meanders with virtuosic ease from the seagull motif to the 'elf-like' skittering brought to music by Mendelssohn and used time and again in his compositions finally becoming a cabaletta. Now cabalettas are not very representative of Mendelssohn but as I was composing I definitely wanted to put a cabaletta in this passage. I am sure Mendelssohn and I will easily agree on this especially since later justice is done to him in the rapid passages and of course in the tonal cadenza at the very end which is more indicative of his time than of mine ... isn't it?'

My youngest son Leif was learning the piano part. We wanted tosurprise his teacher Graeme Humphrey with a private performance. Itwas during piano practise that I started thinking 'why not!' why notcompose my own swan! The idea is not a new one. There is a beautiful- and difficult! - Swan by Finnish composer Selim Palmgren (1878-1951) and a variante on Saint-Saëns' original by his student LeopoldGodowsky (1870-1938) enriched in the deliciously imaginative way sotypical of him. For my own undertaking I wanted part of the materialto associate with Saint-Saëns' Swan to be immediately recognisable.Beyond beauty and resplendence I sought no further.Two different endings hint at Saint-Saëns' original in which the lastchord of the piano part has the length of an eighth-note. A remarkableend to a piece of such dignity and grandeur possibly eccentric butit often leads to performances ending on a fermata for both players.This is unquestionably very beautiful and atmospheric and comeswith a guaranteed effect on an audience which is ready to seek reliefin a sigh. This to be weighed of course against the composer's owndesign. Your call.

Cello part and Piano part The seven pieces for cello in this collection are of a slightly more challenging level of difficulty than those of Fiddler's Nursery which like Fiddle Fancies have been transposed and edited for young cellists by noted teacher Wendy Max. As ever Carse fits the solo and accompaniment together to make a complete musical picture testing both the player's technical skills and imaginative gifts. The seven pieces encompass a variety of moods and styles ranging from the tranquillity of Sweet Sorrow Bluebell Chimes and Sadness to the exuberance of Swinging Hopping Dance WaltzSteps and the ever-popular Frog Dance.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull-Play a selection of superb John Williams' compositions from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This book is part of an instrumental series arranged for Violin Viola and Cello. The arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book features a specially designed Piano part that can easily be played by a teacher or intermediate piano student and a carefully crafted removable part complete with bowings articulations and keys well suited to the level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated accompaniment CD containing a demonstration track of each song featuring live instrumental performance plusa Play-Along track. This terrific edition also contains a tuning note plus a host of full-colour stills from the film.

This book is part of a String series arranged for Violin, Viola, and Cello. The arrangements are completely compatible with each other and can be played together or as solos. Each book features a specially designed piano accompaniment that can be easily played by a teacher or intermediate piano student, and a carefully crafted removable part, complete with bowings, articulations, and keys well suited for the Level 2-3 player. A fully orchestrated accompaniment CD is also provided. Each song on the CD includes a DEMO track, which features a live string performance, followed by the PLAY-ALONG track by itself. / Violoncelle

Cello Play-Along Series Volume 9-The Cello Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily. Just follow the printed music and play along using the original backing tracks available online for download or streaming.This volume lets you play along with the Piano Guys! It contains ten selections from the Piano Guys' 2017 holiday album with original backing tracks created and recorded by the Piano Guys. The backing tracks are included in the price of this book. Songs include O Holy Night/Ave Maria • Mary Did You Know?/Corelli Christmas Concerto • Ode to Joy to the World • What Child Is This • Gloria!/Hark! the Herald Angels Sing • O Little One Sweet• The Little Drummer Boy/Do You Hear What I Hear • Silent Night • The Manger and The Sweetest Gift.

for solo cello. Par LARCHER THOMAS. I do not compose my pieces for a certain voice range or orchestration, but for musicians, for people. It is almost impossible for me to produce a piece without having a particular person in mind or to hear him/her inwardly. No matter how standardized the interpretation of classical music is, and no matter how many coordinates have been fixed and defined, I do not want to have them seen (and therewith the notation) as determining and limiting signs, but rather as guideposts towards the creation of vital, organic music. In differentiated music, two participants are necessary in order for a piece to evolve-- the composer and the musician. Just as there is no one way for a composer to express himself or to notate music, etc., neither is there one way for a musician to read the notation, to interpret, or to live. We find ourselves, for this reason, in a network of meanings, gestures, and signs which have to be fathomed and expanded together. The tone, the breath, the gestures, the dedication, and the potentialities of a musician were also ultimately decisive for the form of this piece. It is music which pushes the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument to its very limits. It is music in which the musician has to transport the contexts and expression over and above the notation. It was not necessary for me to find a new form for this piece; it is a work which can and should be performed in a ‘normal’ concert situation. I deliberately wanted to integrate the perhaps new and unusual content into a familiar form (thus the title ‘Sonata’) And I also wanted to embed the aforementioned extreme situations (in which the technical extremes are synonyms for tension, isolation, loss or tenderness) in an organic process in order for the listener to be able to empathize with and comprehend what is expressed in the piece. I would like to thank Natalie Clein, to whom the Sonata is dedicated, for inspiring this piece and for the path that led to the realization of the music. Thomas Larcher/ Répertoire / Violoncelle

Instrumental Solos For Strings-This series offers a versatile selection of hit movie and TV music for flute clarinet alto sax tenor sax trumpet horn in F trombone violin viola cello and mallet percussion. Each book contains carefully edited arrangements appropriate to each instrument and well suited for level 2--3 students. The CD includes a fully orchestrated demo track of each song which features a live instrumental solo performance followed by a play-along track. Also included are PDFs of piano accompaniments and Alfred's Tempo Changer Software. Titles include: Amazons of Themyscira (Wonder Woman) Another Day of Sun (La La Land) Beauty and the Beast (Beauty and the Beast) City of Stars (La La Land) Everything Is Awesome (The LEGO® Movie) Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) Heathens (Suicide Squad) Just Like Fire (Alice Through the Looking Glass) Kowalski Rag (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) A Man and His Beasts (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) Mia