Frederick Harris Music Company

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

This comprehensive series for violin includes a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Compact Discs, Technique and Etudes, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring virtuoso. Carefully selected and edited to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the pieces in this series provide an engaging compilation of music from all major style periods. Nine volumes of Violin Repertoire will inspire and excite students of all ages. Reflecting a broad range of styles, this collection includes the works of well-known composers such as Bartok, Dvorak, Piazzolla, and Vaughan Williams, along with compositions and arrangements by contemporary violin pedagogues to extend the musical palette. Quality recordings by some of North America's finest violinists and accompanists are included with the purchase of each Repertoire book. 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.

Table of Contents

• Pieces in a Slower Tempo:
  • Un Canadien errant (The Wandering Canadian) - French Canadian folk song, arr. David Duke
  • Sweet Sorrow - Carse, Adam
  • A Song for Bedtime - Coulthard, Jean
  • Grandfather Tells a Witch Story - Coulthard, Jean
  • From My Homeland - Cesar Cui, eds. Paul de Keyser and Fanny Waterman
  • Andante in C Major, op. 22, no. 1 - Elgar, Edward
  • Air from Rinaldo - Handel, George Frideric arr. Kathleen Wood
  • The Tooth Fairy - Christine Donkin
  • The Plucky Snake - Popp, Paulette arr. Christine Gale
  • March of the Elephants (They Took the Night Off from the Opera) - Birston, Harold
  • A Song, op. 80, no. 6 - Kabalevsky
• Pieces in a Faster Tempo:
  • Lollipop Man - Colledge, Hugh and Katherine Colledge
  • Dance - Bartok, Bela arr. Zathureczky
  • Caterpillar! Caterpillar! - Russian folk song, arr. Akiko Kinney
  • Pipe and Tabor - Jones, Edward Huws
  • Moravian Dance - Moravian folk song, arr. Leos Janacek, transc. Leos Faltus
  • The Cowboy - Donkin, Christine
  • Cha-Cha - Mackay, Neil
  • March, op. 80, no. 5 - Kabalevsky, Dmitri
  • Dizzy Lizzy Lightweight - Lumsden, Caroline and Ben Attwood
  • Whirlpool Waltz - Nelson, Sheila M.
  • Snooker Table - Norton, Christopher
  • Soldier's March, op. 68, no. 2 - Schumann, Robert