Grade 1 Violin Pieces allows you to learn a diverse range of popular solo works that have all been carefully chosen with the specifications of the major exam boards in mind. This particular book is perfect forGrade 1 violinists including some classic tunes and contemporary pop hits. The included download card also gives you instant online access to full backing tracks for every song. This fantasticsongbook includes valuable supplementary repertoire for beginning Grade 1 violinists of any age. These particular Violin Pieces will aid with your technique and theoretical skills while alsoallowing you to play some incredible tunes that will help to enhance your musicality. Including such contemporary pop classics as Taylor Swift's 22 One Direction's Best Song Ever Adele's Make You Feel MyLove and Coldplay's Sky Full Of Stars  these familiar tunes will be fun to play for any violinist. Not only this but a big collection of timeless pop tunes are included such as TheBeatles' Yesterday Frank Sinatra's My Way and Elvis Presley's All Shook Up such familiar favourites allowing everyone to enjoy Grade 1 Violin! Each of the tunes features songbackground notes and brief performance guidance while at the beginning of the songbook is an introductory section featuring an invaluable fingering chart. With a fantastically diverse collection of oldand new pop songs some beautifully crisp engraving and helpful performance tips for each song this is the perfect songbook for Grade 1 violinists. It will help hone the techniques necessary for major examboards while enabling you to develop a versatile repertoire and have fun playing some familiar songs.

The Guest Spot: Big Film Hits sheet music song book allows you to step out of your living room and into the spotlight by playing along with ten top-line arrangements of the best and most popularcontemporary film hits. With the unique download card included you'll also be able to listen to specially recorded versions of the tunes before playing along to them yourself. Some of the best of contemporarycinema theme tunes are included here as sheet music such as Do You Want To Build A Snowman? from 'Frozen ' Happy from 'Despicable Me 2 ' Everything Is AWESOME!!! from 'The Lego Movie' andSkyfall. With this brilliant book and download card of film theme sheet music you can recreate those awesome cinematic moments in your own home while also reliving the great theme songs that enhanced the thrills and thelaughs of your favourite blockbusters. The innovative Download Card included with the book allows you to hear the tracks exactly as they're meant to be played withprofessionally-recorded demonstration audio. Not only this but the same song can be listened to again this time with the Violin part removed so that you can slot right in and play as if you were leading a full band. This greatfeature will ensure that you can play the songs precisely as they're played in the films giving you an unprecedented level of accuracy and immersion when performing or practising.  The theme tunesfrom films like 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ' 'The Fault In Our Stars' and 'The Hobbit' will bring a touch of Hollywood class to your playing with the vivacious sound of the Violin turning these recognisablemelody lines into beautiful music. The Guest Spot: Big Film Hits is the ultimate in up-to-date film theme sheet music for the Violin. Featuring the hottest songs from the best contemporary films this book is

Für Violine Solo BWV 1001-1006. Without any doubt J.S. Bach?s cycle of the three Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001-1006 represents one of the pinnacles of classical European music. According to C.P.E. Bach a contemporary voice stated that there was ?nothing more accomplished in order to become a good violinist? than his father?s works. The cycle reflects the entire harmonic and polyphonic musical universe of Bach?s time, so masterfully composed that it can be rendered within the limited framework of but a single instrument ? the violin. The new publication of the Sonatas and Partitas BWV 1001-1006 (BA 5256) constitutes a complete revision of our older edition (BA 5116). The musical text has been edited by Peter Wollny and represents the most up-to-date state of research as published in the New Bach Edition ? Revised (NBArev), volume BA 5937-01. The edition is mainly based on Bach?s unusually clear autograph which is considered among the most beautiful manuscripts by the composer. All relevant secondary sources have been taken into consideration in order to clarify ambiguities. These include five contemporary copies, including one by Anna Magdalena Bach, and four manuscripts from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The musical text has been newly engraved with a clear and generous layout, whereby page turns and pagination have been retained from the previous edition. This allows the straightforward navigation between a copy of the previous and this new edition. The detailed Preface (Ger/Eng) provides information on the genesis of the Sonatas and Partitas, their context and the sources.

Ten International Violin Encores is an exciting collection of original encores by Aaron Minsky exploring musical traditions from across the globe. First published to worldwide acclaim as Ten International Cello Encores these compelling pieces are now available to violinists in this adaptation. Suitable for intermediate to advanced players these vibrant and dynamic pieces are perfectly suited to concert performance as encores small sets or as a suite and will be welcomed by all students and recitalists looking for fresh new music for solo violin.Unique entertaining pieces with an international flavourEncores inspiredby destinations around the world including Africa Asia Mexico and moreA variety of contemporary styles including jazz heavy metal and LatinTechnical challenges such as guitar-style strumming left-hand pizzicato ricochet bowing and percussive effectsUseful fingering and bowing suggestions

Edited by Jeremy DibbleA key figure in the so-called English Musical Renaissance Parry was a considerable composer of chamber music. His three violin sonatas the first of which in d minor is here published for the first time along with the Fantasie-sonata and Sonata in D major date from the 1870s and 80s and are contemporary with his four symphonies and setting of Milton's Blest Pair of Sirens . They are fine additions to the string repertoire and will be greeted enthusiastically by violinists seeking new material for recitals. Performing editions of each sonata are available separately.First published in 2003. Hardback

This is an exceptional collection of ten original études by Aaron Minsky. First published to international acclaim as Ten American Cello Etudes these captivating pieces are now available to violinists in this adaptation by editors Daryl Silberman and Danny Seidenberg. For intermediate to advanced players these dynamic and lively études are equally suited to performance and study.Unique entertaining piecesA variety of contemporary styles including Latin Rock and Roll Blues and moreMusical depictions of American places activities and moodsTechnical challenges such as harmonics left-hand pizzicato and doublestoppingUseful fingering and bowing suggestionsAaron MinskyAaron Minsky began his career as a rock guitarist and then went on to study the cello with established teachers from Juilliard and elsewhere obtaining a Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He has performed with orchestras around the world and on radio and television. Minsky is also an award-winning composer with over a dozen works published by Oxford University Press. He has premiered his original music at the First World Cello Congress the American Cello Congress and the New Directions Cello Festival. Selections from his published collections are now considered standard repertoire appearing in the curriculums of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and the American String Teachers Association. Particularly known for bridging the gap between classical and popular music for cello Minsky founded the Von Cello Band the first cello-fronted rock power trio which features a unique blend of hard alternative and jam rock.

Internationally renowned authors musicians and recording artists Frank Villafranca and Andrew D. Gordon of The Super Groovers have composed a collection of grooves and melodies in the Smooth Jazz Genre creating an exciting supplemental jazz study series for beginner intermediate and advanced jazz students and musicians.After releasing their first CD Supergroovin which received world wide airplay they recognized a need in the music publishing business for a series of books on contemporary improvising within the 'Smooth Jazz' genre. Andrew composed and recorded all the rhythm tracks used in thisbook. In their opinion the melodies were so catchy they couldn't resist developing them into completed songs.Mainline Connection Villefranche?sur-Mer and You're The Only One In My Life are a few featured on their second CD Mainline Connection.The smooth jazz grooves in this 50 page book feature a variety of contemporary rhythm section styles including R

This collection the result of a cooperation with the Verlag Sonus Mundi contains selected solos for violin by twelve contemporary composers: Robert HP Platz Lucia Papanetzová Mela Meierhans Klaus Huber Jacqueline Fontyn Jean-Luc Darbellay Karel Reiner Cergio Prudencio Lucia Konakovská Maki Ishii Rachel Fortin and Yoram Paporis.

Parts I & II on DVD-Whether you want to learn a new style be ready for anything that comes up in a jam session or meet the demands of new orchestral scores with ease this DVD will help you develop the necessary right and left-hand skills. Julie Lyonn Liebermann has examined he technical demands of all the modern alternative styles (such as blues swing rock Celtic Cajun Flamenco and more) and organises the most essential skills the fundamentals that you’ll need to progress all onto one insightful DVD with both parts One and Two of her method guide. In part one: The Bow Hand Four essential bow control techniques ten approaches torhythmizing the bow contemporary techniques you can use to navigate the bow so that each note speaks! Part Two: The Left Hand Basic Set-up Thumb Hinge Trampoline Fingers Chromatic Motion Vibrato Ornaments (such as trills slides grace notes turns jazz embellishments and more) Double Stops (Unisons octaves and chords) Playing on chord changes Walking bass lines Slap and more. Overall an interesting insightful comprehensive and enjoyable guide to contemporary string playing on this great value and brilliant DVD guide.

Georg Friedrich Handel's Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo belong to the core repertoire of Baroque Violin music some of them even being among the most famous repertoire pieces of their time. The new edition in the Wiener Urtext Edition series is based on Handel's autographs contemporary copies and first prints. In addition to Handel's nine violin sonatas it contains two minuets for Violin and Basso Continuo which have been handed down in the environment of the sonatas. Apart from the solo Violin part and a Continuo score with a realised easily playable Basso Continuo the edition also includes a figured Bass partwhich gives experienced Continuo players the opportunity to improvise on the Basso Continuo part. The notes on interpretation by the renowned Baroque expert Reinhard Goebel provide insight into a sonata performance that was common practice at the time of Handel.

Over the years many examination pieces have captured the imagination of teachers and students but the stars of past syllabuses are often forgotten. This collection brings together best-loved grade 2 Violin pieces including Kalinka Got those 3rd Position Blues? (Huws Jones) and Waltz from Sleeping Beauty (Tchaikovsky).Containing fresh editions of folk and classical masterpieces alongside contemporary favourites all pieces have been rigorously researched by violin expert Jessica O’Leary. A CD of performance and accompaniment tracks is included as are useful practice tips. This book includes pieces from current and past Trinity andABRSM syllabuses.Jessica O’Leary has a successful career as a teacher professional violinist ABRSM examiner and seminar presenter. She has toured and recorded extensively as a member of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and has performed with Madonna Led Zeppelin the London Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Opera House. She teaches violin and viola and directs string ensembles at St Paul’s Girls’ School Eltham College and Junior Guildhall London.

Violin Play-Along Volume 51. The Violin Play-Along series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily, with incredible backing tracks to help you sound like a bona fide pro! Just follow the written music, stream or download the online audio to hear how the violin should sound, and then play along with the separate backing tracks. The online audio files include PLAYBACK , a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, pan left or right, and more. This volume includes 8 of your favorite contemporary songs: Feel It Still (Portugal. The Man.) · Happy Now (Zedd and Elley Duhe) · Havana (Camila Cabello

Connections for violin and piano are appealing contemporary pieces by Christopher Norton. They have been carefully edited (including bowing and fingering) as well as graded. As with Connections for piano the pieces cover a wide range of popular styles - including waltz rock Latin and swing. Students and their teachers will learn how to play the violin better while gaining valuable perspectives on a range of styles.