Play the Viol
Title | Play the Viol PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Crum |
Publisher | Clarendon Press |
Pages | 185 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780198163114 |
Play the Viol meets the need for a comprehensive guide to playing technique which provides for the specific requirements of the adult beginner. The book covers the treble, tenor, and bass viol, and assumes no knowledge beyond an ability to read music.
I Can Read Music, Vol 1
Title | I Can Read Music, Vol 1 PDF eBook |
Author | Joanne Martin |
Publisher | Warner Bros. Publications |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1995-05 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780874874419 |
A beginning note-reading book designed for Suzuki-trained violoncello students who have learned to play using an aural approach, or for traditionally taught students who need extra note reading practice.
The Viol Rules
Title | The Viol Rules PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Crum |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Viols |
ISBN | 9780952822042 |
Play the Viol. Early Music
Title | Play the Viol. Early Music PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Viols |
ISBN |
Notes for Violists
Title | Notes for Violists PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Bynog |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 433 |
Release | 2020-11-19 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190916133 |
Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire offers historical and analytical information about thirty-five of the best-known pieces for the instrument, making it an essential resource for professional, amateur, and student violists alike. With engaging prose supported by fact-filled analytical charts, the book offers rich biographical information and insightful analyses that help violists gain a more complete understanding of pieces like Béla Bartók's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, Rebecca Clarke's Sonata for Viola and Piano, Robert Schumann's Märchenbilder for Viola and Piano, op. 113, Carl Stamitz's Concerto for Viola and Orchestra in D Major, Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for Viola or Violin Unaccompanied, and thirty other masterpieces. This comprehensive guide to key pieces from the viola repertoire from the eighteenth through the twentieth century covers concertos, chamber pieces, and works for solo viola by a wide range of composers, including Bach, Telemann, Mozart, Hoffmeister, Walton, and Hindemith. Author David M. Bynog not only offers clear structural analyses of these compositions but also situates them in their historical contexts as he highlights crucial biographical information on composers and explores the circumstances of the development and performance of each work. By connecting performance studies with scholarship, this indispensable handbook for students and professionals allows readers to gain a more complete picture of each work and encourages them to approach other compositions in a similarly analytical manner.
Lev's Violin
Title | Lev's Violin PDF eBook |
Author | Helena Attlee |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2021-04-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0241402565 |
*A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK* 'Utterly enthralling - a beautifully-written voyage of discovery that takes us deep into the heart of music-making' Deborah Moggach From the moment she hears Lev's violin for the first time, Helena Attlee is captivated. She is told that it is an Italian instrument, named after its former Russian owner. Eager to discover all she can about its ancestry and the stories contained within its delicate wooden body, she sets out for Cremona, birthplace of the Italian violin. This is the beginning of a beguiling journey whose end she could never have anticipated. Making its way from dusty workshops, through Alpine forests, cool Venetian churches, glittering Florentine courts, and far-flung Russian flea markets, Lev's Violin takes us from the heart of Italian culture to its very furthest reaches. Its story of luthiers and scientists, princes and orphans, musicians, composers, travellers and raconteurs swells to a poignant meditation on the power of objects, stories and music to shape individual lives and to craft entire cultures.
Violin Dreams
Title | Violin Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Steinhardt |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780547086002 |
"A rapturous, witty, and passionate memoir ... Violin Dreams is not only the story of a man becoming an artist, it’s a history of twentieth-century music.” -- John Guare, Tony Award-winning playwright Arnold Steinhardt, for more than forty years an international soloist and the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet, brings warmth, wit, and fascinating insider details to the story of his lifelong obsession with the violin, that most seductive and stunningly beautiful instrument. His story is rich with vivid scenes: the terror inflicted by his early violin teachers, the sensual pleasure involved in the pursuit of the perfect violin, the charged atmosphere of high-level competitions. Steinhardt describes Bach’s Chaconne as the holy grail for the solo violin, and he illuminates, from the perspective of an ardent owner of a great Storioni violin, the history and mysteries of the renowned Italian violinmakers. Violin Dreams includes a remarkable CD recording of Steinhardt performing Bach’s Partita in D Minor as a young violinist forty years ago and playing the same piece especially for this book. A conversation between the author and Alan Alda on the differences between the two performances is included in the liner notes.