Discovering Creative Improvisation For String Players. Par WALLER JULIANNA. Learn how to improvise and explore your creativity with this method developed by acclaimed fiddler, violinist, and instructor Julianna Waller. This book is divided into four Skill Sections and presented in workbook format. Each exercise includes basic and advanced examples as well as easy progress tracking. The unique improvisatory activities entice the imagination through imagery, observation, external stimuli, art projects, and memories! This multifaceted methodology is appropriate for novice and professional string players of the fiddle, violin, viola, and cello and is adaptable to many musical styles. A high-quality play-along recording is provided to support your practice and entice your imagination! The recording includes all examples from sections two and three, piano and full band accompaniment tracks for the I - IV - V7 - I chord progression in ten keys, and excerpts from two bluegrass compositions by the author. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Bluegrass and Country - Improvisation / Recueil / Violon

Programme note The spectrum of sound the gesticulation – in short the very nature of the strings – has always had a central place in my output demonstrated by the numbers of string quartets concertos with string soloist chamber and solo works. The interest dates back to my school years when I was fortunate to be able to compose for a cello-playing schoolmate and to accompany him on the piano. I discovered then the innumerable nuances of sound and playing varieties offered by just one bow four strings and five fingers..  The bell-like association if the title reflects the special texture of the work. Like thecontinously changing overtones of a struck resonating bell the four parts are unified through one single basic line broken up in a multitude of changing dynamics of a multifacetted rhythm and resulting in an ever transforming harmony.  The duration of the work is ca 12 minutes.  Per Nørgård (1998)