Frederick Harris Music Company

Author: Royal Conservatory Of Music
Format: Book with Audio Online
Instrumentation: Violin
Level: 1

Carefully selected and curated to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the Violin Series, 2021 Edition includes pieces from a diverse range of eras and styles that represent stepping stones to major violin repertoire. Each level is constructed to link repertoire selections to necessary techniques and corresponding etudes, while illustrating step-by-step connections for developing core skills. Each Repertoire book includes access to quality video and audio recordings by some of North America's finest violinists and accompanists; both performance and accompaniment-only tracks for each Repertoire selection offer students a model for performance practice and the convenience of accompanied rehearsal at home.

Violin Repertoire 1 offers selections at various tempos that explore familiar D major/minor and A major/minor tonalities in first position, while encouraging further development of hand-frame knowledge in the keys of G major and C major across the fingerboard. Through a broad cross-section of pieces in simple and compound time, enriched piano accompaniments enhance lyricism and tone production. The pieces explore bow development and division using a variety of lengths, while also introducing hooked bows and slurs. New experiences include artificial harmonics, glissando, and double stops; duets are included to provide opportunities for in-class and recital collaboration.

Featured composers include Harold Birston, Christine Donkin, Robert Fleming, Christine Gale, Terence Greaves, Ricky Hyslop, Michael Joncas, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Christopher Norton, Mary Alice Rich, Alec Rowley, and Robert Schumann.

Contents:

• From My Homeland - Cesar Cui, arr. Paul de Keyser and Fanny Waterman
• Un Canadien errant (The Wandering Canadian) - French Canadian folk song, arr. David Gordon Duke
• The Plucky Snake - Paulette Popp, arr. Christine Gale
• March of the Elephants (They Took the Night Off from the Opera) - Harold Birston
• A Song, op. 80, no. 6 - Dmitri Kabalevsky
• Lift Every Voice and Sing - J. Rosamond Johnson, arr. Mark Mrozinski
• Air from Rinaldo - George, Frideric Handel, arr. Kathleen Wood
• Garden Piece - Christopher Norton
• On Eagle's Wings - Michael Joncas, arr. Harold Birston
• Kavatine - Alec Rowley
• Old Melodie - Anonymous, arr. Warren Mould
• Frolic - Terence Greaves
• Mountain Creek - Mary Alice Rich
• Romanian Dance - Ricky Hyslop
• Scotty Lad - Robert Fleming
• Hevenu Shalom Aleichem (We Brought Peace unto You) - Traditional Israeli melody, arr. Christine Donkin
• Rainy Daze - Hannah Bartel Groening
• Dizzy Lizzy Lightweight - Caroline Lumsden and Ben Attwood
• Dance - Bela Bartok, arr. Ede Zathureczky
• Caterpillar! Caterpillar! - Russian folk song, arr. Akiko Kinney
• Soldier's March, op. 68, no. 2 - Robert Schumann
• Cha-Cha - Neil Mackay
• The Cowboy - Christine Donkin
• Two Little Donkeys - Antoni Cofalik and Romuald Twardowski