Strings category: 377 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
With a colorful history that spans 450 years, the violin has proven to be one of the world's most important and versatile instruments. Addressed to performing musicians, serious concertgoers, and collectors of recordings, The Violin offers insightful, up-to-date essays on a wide range of topics. Essays...
by Achille Rivarde
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
"My object in writing this book is to encourage and help those students of the violin who are sufficiently intelligent to wish to advance with the times and who realise that in order to free violin playing from the rut of tradition in which it has complacently remained for so long, it is necessary...
by Mike Spears
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
One of the challenges a fiddle player has, especially younger students, is how to practice. 10 Fiddle Tips addresses practicing, acquiring a teacher, scales and arpeggios, and playing with and for others. I've written this book for the violin or fiddle student to help in understanding how music...
by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
This volume presents the scores for Beethoven's “25 Scottische Lieder, Op. 108”; or, “25 Scottish Songs”. Composed between 1815–18, these dual English- and German-language folk songs were written for one or two voices to be accompanied by piano, cello, and violin. The songs include: “Music,...
by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
“Piano Trio in C minor - Op.1 No.3” is a score for piano, cello and violin composed by Beethoven between 1793 and 1795. It contains four movements: “Allegro con brio”, “Andante cantabile con variazioni”, “Menuetto. Quasi Allegro”, and “Prestissimo”. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 –...
Before the Chinrest
A Violinist's Guide to the Mysteries of Pre-Chinrest Technique and Style
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Drawing on the principles of Francesco Geminiani and four decades of experience as a baroque and classical violinist, Stanley Ritchie offers a valuable resource for anyone wishing to learn about 17th-18th-and early 19th-century violin technique and style. While much of the work focuses on the technical...
The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music
Origin, History, and Playing Styles
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Since the thirteenth century, the sitara stringed, plucked instrument of Indiahas transformed into an instrument beloved by millions in its country of origin as well as all over the world. The Journey of the Sitar in Indian Classical Music details the origin, history, and playing styles of this unique...
by Tim Kliphuis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
This book is the first method ever for learning Gypsy Jazz Violin in the style of Stephane Grappelli. Have you, too, often listened to Grappellis solos thinking I wish I could do that, but it is way over my head? Here is the answer. Simple theory, licks and stylistic lessons point you towards your...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 1992
The Cambridge Companion to the Violin offers students, performers, and scholars a fascinating and composite survey of the history and repertory of the instrument from its origins to the present day. The volume comprises fifteen essays, written by a team of specialists, and is intended to develop the...
The Scots Fiddle
(Vol 2) Tunes, Tales & Traditions of the Lothians, Borders & Ayrshire
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
In the second of a three-volume set of The Scots Fiddle, J. Murray Neil has compiled a collection of the fiddle music of Scotland relating to Edinburgh and the Lothians, Borders and Ayrshire. It includes a selection of traditional fiddle tunes and song airs that are played and sung wherever Scots...
by Robin Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1976
Over 100 tunes, edited and annotated by Robin Williamson. From easy to advanced. For mandolin, banjo, flute, etc. With guitar chords.
Includes these songs:
All In A Garden Green
Apples In The Winter
Argeers
As A Thoiseach
Back Of The Haggard
Belladrum's Strathspey
Bishop Of Bangor's...
Ukulele Lessons for Kids - Book 1
How to Play Ukulele for Kids (Free Video Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Teach how to play ukulele for kids with our easy ukulele lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free ukulele videos and audio demonstrating all examples. See and hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band. Also includes music score animation for easy music...
Violin Lessons for Kids - Book 1
How to Play Violin for Kids (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Teach how to play violin for kids with our easy violin lessons for kids.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"The [audio which] came with this book is great. The violin accompanied by piano...
Violin Lessons for Beginners
Teach Yourself How to Play Violin (Free Audio Available)
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Teach yourself how to play violin with our easy violin lessons for beginners. ***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how each one is played by a teacher, then play along.*** "A very intuitive, easy to understand book. I recommend it to all my students and with practice,...