Double Stops - Cello

Double stops provide the vehicle for excellent learning material for the young and advancing cellist in this newest Rick Mooney book. More than 60 familiar folk songs - many in the Suzuki repertoire - give the student help in such skills as hearing intonation shaping the hand correctly shifting extensions and preparing for future repertoire.

This innovative fun collection introduces intermediate to advanced level cellists to a range of pop and rock styles.Building on the trail-blazing approach to Cello playing that he developed in Ten American Cello Etudes and Ten International Cello Encores Aaron Minsky presents the student with attractive new pieces that explore a number of technical and musical challenges.In Pop Goes The Cello you will find:Imaginative and entertaining pieces.A variety of contemporary styles including pop rock latin and country.Technical challenges such as double stops syncopated rhythms harmonics thumbposition and percussive effects.Useful fingering and bowing suggestions.

A third book of pieces for cello-Cello Time is a great series for young Cellists. Packed with lively original tunes easy duets and traditional pieces the books are carefully paced and organised to build confidence every step of the way. Cello Time Sprinters includes: Extended pieces in first position. Fourth position using the finger patterns 1-34 12-4 and 1234. A Range of techniques including hooked bowing string crossing and double-stops. Scales and arpeggios to suit the pieces and at the level of Grade 3. 2 CDs with performances andbackings for all of the pieces many with Drums and Bass added as well as tuning tracks.

Born in Paris in 1899 Francis Poulenc soon became a notable composer and pianist. His Serenade originally composed in 1925-1926 for Voice and Piano met much success as part of his Bawdy Songs. Therefore it was well-received when Maurice Gendron transcribed it for Cello and Piano. Poulenc as a member of Les Six composed music in a style contrary to that of Richard Wagner and impressionists Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. Serenade reflects the composer's contrasting style making use of a 6/8 time signature double stops variations in articulation and wide range on the Cello.Being an imaginative and evocative composition Serenade transcribed for Cello and Piano is a pleasurable addition to the repertoire.

I - Lento II - Imposante III - Andante Programme Note In my early television remembrance I recall a broadcast with Samuel Beckett one of the fathers of the absurd play and drama. At one time Beckett looked the viewer (the camera) in the eye and said:'What! - is the Word'. I have not since been able to forget it obviously having borrowed this ambiguous sentence as title for this short cello sonata. The fact that it is conceived as a unity is obvious from the fact that the two outer movements are closely related. The long immediately recognizable melodic line which dominates the first movement appears in the third movement aswell first in an inverted version and then almost identical to its original appearance only shorter. In contrast the middle movement is a fast one constantly and intensely on the move with many changes of pulse and meters as well as large melodic leaps. And while the outer movements each are composed as a single melodic line the middle movement makes extensive use of the cello as a polyphonic instrument employing lots of chords double stops and flageolet effects. Per Nørgård (2010)

A delightful Double Stops method book for Cello by Susanne Basler-Novsak and Sibylle Stein. Boook one contains helpful guidance and some terrific pieces all in 1st position. German and English text.

417 Exercises include 63 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5-From the author of the popular ABCs of Strings method Janice Tucker Rhoda's Complete Technique for Cello Book 1 suits the advanced beginner to upper level student wishing to learn or improve left hand and right bow-arm skills.Starting in first position and proceeding carefully through the higher positions this method book uses studies and exercises to demonstrate specific technical ideas. 417 Exercises include 63 Musical Studies in Positions 1 through 5.Technique Highlights:Positions 1 through 5Extended positionsHalf PositionBass tenor and treble clefs3 octave CMajor Scale to IV and VII positionAdvanced chromatic scale to IV V and VII positionBasic thumb positionWorksheets for note-readingScales arpeggios broken thirdsImprovisational melodiesDouble-Stops chords octavesHarmonicsArm Swing left-hand and bow-arm techniqueBow balancing exercisesBallet of Shifting exercisesQuick Finger exercisesFinger Substitution exercisesLeft-hand pizzicato exercisesTeaching points throughout

These eight solos provide the beginner cellist with a variety of musical styles time signatures bowings and rhythms whilst staying in the first position. Open string and first finger double stops as well as open string and open string to first finger string crossings reinforce string level bowing techniques. Time signatures such as 6/8 and 5/4 encourage counting and concentration. Rhythms such as a dotted quarter note followed by an eighth note and a dotted half note followed by a quarter note reinforce the need to develop accurate counting skills. All of the cellist's basic techniques are presented in inspiring musical forms which will motivate the beginner cellist toquickly reach the next level. In addition to all that solid pedagogy these pieces are fun to play!