Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello
Title | Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Duncan |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 41 |
Release | 2023-01-25 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1513472240 |
Beautiful Airs & Ballads of the British Isles for Cello is a collection of 30 traditional Irish, Scottish, and English melodies that are particularly suited to the cello. Traditional airs, love songs, songs of home and longing as well as compositions of Turlough O'Carolan and J. Scott Skinner make up the collection. The arrangements include stylistic phrasing and variations as well as chord changes for accompaniment.
Fun with the Cello
Title | Fun with the Cello PDF eBook |
Author | WILLIAM BAY |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2010-10-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1609747453 |
A collection of 47 big-note, easy level one solos on folk favorites designed to build technique, range, and endurance while maintaining student interest. Fun to play and serves ideally as a supplement to any method. All of the solos in this text may be played together in ensemble with the Fun with Violin, Fun with Viola, and Fun with Bass books. Includes many favorite tunes: Battle Hymn of the Republic; Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home; Blue Bells of Scotland; Cockles and Mussels; Down by the Riverside; Erie Canal; and many more.
Fun with the Viola
Title | Fun with the Viola PDF eBook |
Author | William Bay |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2010-10-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1609747658 |
A collection of 47 big-note, easy level-one solos on folk favorites designed to build technique, range, and endurance while maintaining student interest. Fun to play and serves ideally as a supplement to any method. All of the solos in this text may be played together in ensemble with the Fun with Violin, Fun with Cello, and Fun with String Bass books.
Celtic Gems for Cello
Title | Celtic Gems for Cello PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Duncan |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 2022-02-15 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1513459260 |
Celtic Gems for Cello contains 68 of the most played and loved melodies from the Celtic tradition including 25 reels, 31 jigs, 8 slip jigs and 4 Irish hornpipes. Tunes of similar style are grouped with melodies that work well in sets, or medleys. Stylistic bowing and ornament ideas as well as suggested chord changes are included to give options in interpreting the tunes.
Selections from the Arnold Book of Old Songs for Cello and Guitar
Title | Selections from the Arnold Book of Old Songs for Cello and Guitar PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2022-12-28 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781625592323 |
Gregg Nestor has selected nine of the sixteen settings best suited for adaptation to cello and guitar. They can be successfully mixed and matched and presented as short mini-cycles grouped around their nationalistic heritage, or as encore material for recitals.
Fun with the String Bass
Title | Fun with the String Bass PDF eBook |
Author | WILLIAM BAY |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2010-10-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1609747607 |
A collection of 47 easy-to-play, big-note, level-one solos on folk favorites for young students of the upright bass. Designed to build technique, range, and endurance while maintaining student interest. Fun to play and serves ideally as a supplement to any method. All of the solos in this text may be played together in ensemble with the Fun with Violin; Fun with Cello; and Fun with Bass books. Includes many favorite tunes: Hail! Hail! the Gang's All Here; I've Been Workin' on the Railroad, and many more.
Castles, Kirks and Caves
Title | Castles, Kirks and Caves PDF eBook |
Author | ABBY NEWTON |
Publisher | Mel Bay Publications |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2010-10-07 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 1609746279 |
This is the second popular book of beautiful Celtic tunes compiled and arranged for the cello by Abby Newton. Most of the tunes in this collection are from her recent recordings, Castles Kirks and Caves and Ferintosh. the book is organized in three parts: Tunes, Sets, and Duos. the first part, Tunes, contains an assortment of twenty-eight tunes culled mostly from the well know Scottish and Irish traditional tune books including collections by Capt. Simon Fraser, Patrick McDonaldNiel Gow and James Oswald. the second part, Sets, consists of several tunes played in succession. Part three, Duos, includes two part scores (with treble and bass lines) that come mainly from James Oswald's Airs for the Seasons and Burke Thumoth's Collection of Scots and Irish Tunes 1745.