Product Overview
The Royal Conservatory
Product Number: VLR00
Format: Softcover & Online Access
ISBN: 978-1-55440-901-3
Violin Preparatory Repertoire features student and teacher duets to promote listening skills and to provide an entry point into ensemble playing. This repertoire book for elementary-level students, distinguished by slow and fast tempos, is based on the foundational finger patterns of D major and A major, postural development, and bow division with legato and staccato strokes. Special effects, such as tapping on the side of the violin and open-string pizzicato, promote freedom of movement and encourage navigation of the fingerboard. Elementary rhythms are explored alongside supportive piano accompaniments within familiar time signatures. Featured composers include Violet Archer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Harold Birston, Frank Blachford, Jean Couthard, David Gordon Duke, Jean Ethridge, Joanne Martin, and Mary Alice Rich. ©2021
Contents:
Ode to Joy – Ludwig van Beethoven, arr. Kelly Parkins-Lindstrom and Christine Donkin
In Ancient Times – Harold Birston
Berceuse – Frank Blachford
The Climb Up Mount Royal – Jean Coulthard
All Alone – David Gordon Duke
Pit-a-Pat Rain – Traditional German Tune, arr. Christoph and Kurt Sassmannshaus and Melissa Lusk
Sìne Bàhn (Fair Jean) – Duncan Johnston, arr. Harold Birston
Poème – Paul de Keyser
The Bells of St. Basil’s – Paul de Keyser
Machu Picchu Mountain – Joanne Martin
That Sounds So Glorious (Das klinget so herrlich) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, arr. Christine Donkin
Waltz – Violet Archer
Spine-chiller – Edward Huws Jones
The Old Woman and The Peddler – English folk song, arr. Akiko Kinney
Opening Doors – Mary Alice Rich
The Subway Train – Jean Ethridge
Pony Trot – A. Krasev
Konopě (The Old City) – Moravian folk song, arr. Leoš Janáček, transc. Leoš Faltus
Homage to Bartók – Jean Ethridge
Pepperoni Pizza Pie – Anita Hewitt-Jones and Caroline Lumsden
Happy-Go-Lucky – Joanne Martin
Wagon Wheels – Christine Donkin
Jumping Beans – Christoph Sassmannshaus and Melissa Lusk
Folk Song – Traditional French Song, arr. Hugh J. McLean
