Features:

This text presents beginning violin technique and basic music-reading fundamentals, with an emphasis on the use of melodies and classical pieces to teach each new concept. The 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of A, D, G, and C as well as bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart and other classical composers. Includes access to online audio and video. The audio features all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo violin and piano accompaniment.

Table of Contents:

• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Jingle Bells
• Russian Dance Tune
• Lightly Row
• Camptown Races
• Hungarian Folk Song #1
• The Old Grey Goose
• Ode to Joy (Ninth Symphony Theme) - Beethoven
• Scherzando - Bartok
• Gavotte
• Country Gardens
• Can Can - Offenbach
• Largo from The New World Symphony - Dvorak
• Riguadon - Purcell
• Lavender's Blue
• Allegretto - Beethoven
• Gavotte
• Simple Gifts - Shaker melody
• Fanfare Minuet
• King Williams's March - Clarke
• London Symphony - Haydn
• Jamaica - English Dance Tune
• British Grenadiers
• Symphony Theme - Brahms
• Minuet - Telemann
• The Harmonious Blacksmith - Handel
• Trumpet Minuet
• French March (Duet)
• Gavotte in C
• Marche from The Algerian Suite - Saint-Saens
• Bouree from Water Music - Handel
• Etude - Paganini
• Gavotte from Sonata #2, Opus 5 - Handel
• Menuet - Bach
• German Dance - Beethoven
• German Dance in A - Beethoven
• Andante Grazioso - Mozart
• Ride Rider - Kabalevsky
• Bonaparte's Retreat
• Soldier's March - Schumann
• Theme from the Fourth Symphony - Schubert
• Glockenspiel - Mozart
• Surprise Symphony - Haydn
• Gavotte in D - Corelli
• Sonatina - Beethoven

Catalog:	MB99292M
Publisher:	Mel Bay
Composer:	Craig Duncan
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Voicing:	Violin
Level:	Beginning
Pages:	32