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First Lessons Violin (eBook + Online Audio/Video)

by Craig Duncan

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Description

Contents

Samples

Series

Product Number:

99292BCDEB

Format:

eBook + Online Audio/Video

Skill Level:

Beginning

Pages:

Binding:

eBook

ISBN:

1-6106-5747-0

ISBN13:

978-16106-5747-1

Series:

First Lessons

Publisher:

Mel Bay Publications, Inc.

Date Published:

10/13/2015

This text presents beginning violin technique and basic music-reading fundamentals, with an emphasis on the use of melodies and classical pieces to teach each new concept. The 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of A, D, G, and C as well as bowing techniques such as dynamic contrast, slurs, accents, and staccato bowing. There are 47 melodies presented including works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Mozart and other classical composers. Includes access to online audio, video and piano accompaniment PDF. The audio features all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo violin and piano accompaniment.

• Uses melodies and pieces to introduce technique and fundamentals.
• Includes scales in A, D, G, and C; slurs, accents,and staccato bowing.
• 47 melodies, including works by Bach, Beethoven,Brahms, Mozart, and more.
• Companion audio download available online contains all exercises and pieces.
• Free online piano accompaniment PDF.

Lesson 1
Holding the Violin
Playing the Open Strings
Quarter Notes and Half Notes

Lesson 2
Notes in the First Position on the A and E strings
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Lesson 3
Key Signatures
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Jingle Bells

Lesson 4
Repeat Signs
Russian Dance Tune
Lightly Row
Dotted Notes
Camptown Races

Lesson 5
Eighth notes
Hungarian Folk Song #1
The Old Gray Goose

Lesson 6
Notes in the First Position on the D string
Ode to Joy (Ninth Symphony Theme)	Ludwig van Beethoven
Rests
Scherzando	Bela Barotok

Lesson 7
D Scale
Gavotte
Country Gardens
Can, Can	Jacques Offenbach

Lesson 8
Dynamics
Dixie
"Largo" from The New World Symphony	Anton Dvorak

Lesson 9
Notes in the Key of D on the E string
Riguadon	Henry Purcell

Lesson 10
Time Signature
Lavender's Blue
Allegretto	Ludwig van Beethoven

Lesson 11
Slurs
Gavotte
Simple Gifts	Shaker melody

Lesson 12
Accents
Fanfare Minuet
King William's March	Jeremiah Clarke

Lesson 13
Key of G
London Symphony	Joseph Haydn

Lesson 14
Crescendo and Descresendo
Jamaica	English Dance Tune

Lesson 15
The Upbeat
British Grenadiers
Symphony Theme	Johannes Brahms

Lesson 16
Accidentals
Minuet	Georg Philipp Telemann
The Harmonious Blacksmith	Georg Frederic Handel

Lesson 17
Key of C
Trumpet Minuet

Lesson 18
Ritard
French March (duet)

Lesson 19
Playing two notes with the same bow direction
Gavotte in C
"Marche" from The Algerian Suite	Camille Saint-Saëns

Lesson 20
The Fourth Finger
"Bourée" from Water Music	Georg Frederic Handel
Etude	Nikolai Paganini

Lesson 21
Fourth Finger and Open Strings
"Gavotte" from Sonata #2, Opus 5	Georg Frederic Handel
Menuet	J. S. Bach

Lesson 22
Key of A
German Dance	Ludwig van Beethoven

Lesson 23
German Dance in A	Ludwig van Beethoven
Andante Grazioso	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Lesson 24
Sixteenth Notes
Ride, Ride	Dmitri Kabalevsky
Bonaparte's Retreat

Lesson 25
Dotted Eighth Note
Soldier's March	Robert Schumann
Theme from the Fourth Symphony	Franz Schubert

Lesson 26
Staccato
Glockenspiel	Wolfgang A. Mozart

Lesson 27
Staccato and Legato
Surprise Symphony	Joseph Haydn
Gavotte in D	Arcangelo Corelli

Lesson 28
Grace Notes
Sonatina	Ludwig van Beethoven

Audio Sample

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