The Swan Study Book for Cello


Book Description

The Swan Study Book for Cello helps you learn and perfect every measure of the famous piece. The Swan is broken down into short sections and taught through carefully graded exercises. Skills that would otherwise be difficult, such as shifts and fast scale patterns, can now be mastered. You can be free to concentrate on artistic expression by solidifying your cello technique. The Swan Study Book gives you essential tools to be a better cellist. This book is appropriate for intermediate level cellists who can play up through eighth position and know some tenor clef. An overview of tenor clef is included, as well as a section on producing better tone. If needed, preparatory exercises for The Swan are in the back of the book. The entire cello part to Camille Saint-Saens' The Swan is presented at the end of the book (the piano accompaniment is not included).




170 Foundation Studies for Violoncello


Book Description

Compiled by Alwin Schroeder, a former cellist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and an experienced teacher, this collection of 80 exercises constitutes the first book of a three-volume set. Schroeder drew upon his extensive experience to create original études for instructing students, and in this work he combines them with several others by his distinguished nineteenth-century European colleagues: Karl Schröder. Ferdinand Büchler, Friedrich Dotzauer, Auguste Franchomme, Friedrich Grützmacher, and Sebastian Lee. The carefully selected studies are arranged in order of increasing complexity, and Schroeder provides suggestions for fingering, bowing, and dynamics. Cello students and teachers will find these exercises a splendid resource for the improvement of technique and performance.







Suzuki cello school


Book Description

Contents are: Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb 1 (Moderato, Adagio, Allegro molto) (J. Haydn). This volume contains a few smaller pieces that could be used as warm-up exercises, but the majority of the edition is devoted to the entire Concerto in C Major, Hob. VIIb. 1, by Franz Joseph Haydn. This work is perfect for students at the intermediate/advanced level, and is a vital link to the unique teaching philosophy that is Suzuki! Volume 9 contains both the cello score and the piano accompaniment.




Tenor Clef for the Cello


Book Description

This book presents a systematic study of tenor clef for the intermediate cellist. The exercises teach one or two notes at a time, while corresponding pieces utilize the notes that were just learned. Much of the book focuses on the transition from bass to tenor clef on the cello, as well as the relationship between the two clefs. Teachers can use this book as a method for teaching the clef to their students, preparing them for tenor clef found in many intermediate and advanced cello pieces, including Saint-Saens' Allegro Appassionato and The Swan, and Vivaldi's Cello Concerto in E Minor.




Suzuki Cello School -Volume 1 (Revised)


Book Description

Titles: * Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Variations (Shinichi Suzuki) * French Folk Song (Folk Song) * Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Song of the Wind (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * O Come, Little Children (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) * Allegro (Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion in D Major (Shinichi Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion in G Major (Shinichi Suzuki) * Long, Long Ago (T.H. Bayly) * Allegretto (Shinichi Suzuki) * Andantino (Shinichi Suzuki) * Rigadoon (H. Purcell) * Etude (Shinichi Suzuki) * The Happy Farmer from Album for the Young, Op. 68, No. 10 (R. Schumann) * Minuet in C, No. 11 in G Major from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach, BWV 841 (J.S. Bach) * Minuet No. 2 from Minuet in G Major, BWV 116 (J.S. Bach)




The Art Of Scales


Book Description

The first scale book to guide students of all levels in a step-by-step fashion through the most essential scale exercises. Rhythmic and bowing variations of gradually increasing difficulty take the monotony out of daily scale practice, and because each scale and associated scale work is located on facing pages, assigning scales has never been easier. Institutes a new approach to practicing octaves, thirds, and even tenths. Designed to help cellists achieve unparalleled command of even the most advanced techniques.




Swan's Grace


Book Description

HE WAS A MAN WHO MADE THE RULES, WHILE SHE WANTED ONLY TO BREAK THEM. . . . Grayson Hawthorne is everything blue-blooded Boston society admires-rich, ruthless, untainted by scandal. While always keeping a tight rein on his emotions, he has never forgotten Sophie Wentworth, the spirited but awkward child who captivated his youth with music and a young girl's adoration. But one night long ago, she left the city unexpectedly. Now the toast of Europe, Boston's ugly duckling is returning home with the grace of a swan. Through provocative performances, Sophie has found great fame as a concert cellist. She hopes to keep her past and her new life separate-until she discovers that her family has bargained her away to Grayson, the lonely boy she once loved, but now a cold, forbidding man with the power to break her tattered heart. At that moment, she vows to bring Boston . . . and Grayson . . . to their knees. Swan's Grace is the sophisticated, unforgettable story of a gifted but defiant woman and an unforgiving man who must find a gentleness in his soul to heal both their tarnished hearts.




The Great Cello Solos


Book Description

(Music Sales America). Essential short pieces for the cello selected and edited by Julian Lloyd Webber in one attractive volume.




Serial Shifting


Book Description

Intermediate cello shifting studies in rows and patterns.