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Description
Whether a student or a great artist, the desire to make a beautiful sound is a constant in the life of any musician. Sound is the musician’s voice, the means of communicating an artistic vision to the audience and it should be the aim for children of any age or standard to be engaged in good tone production.
The inspiration for writing the pieces for this book came to me from the wish to give the young children I teach music which would develop their ear for both good intonation and beautiful tone production. All the pieces have a strongly implied harmonic structure allowing them to be played without accompaniment. The purpose of the second violin part is therefore to enable the teacher to underline the harmony as well as to influence the student’s tone production and intonation through his own sound, as much can be taught by good example. The violin student also has the option to play with piano. The accompaniments included within this book are written by Heidi Rolfe.
The choice of keys in this book covers most of the requirements for scales in the Associated Board syllabus Grades 3 and 4.
Finally I think that children enjoy the challenge of expressing different moods and emotions musically, and I hope that the range of ideas implied by the keys and the titles of these pieces will fire their imagination.
Nigel Goldberg
Contents
1. Overture G major
2. Ländler A major
3. Lana’s Song A minor
4. Fisherman’s Tale Bb major
5. English Folk Song A major
6. Along the Sunny Path F major
7. Almost Alone… . D minor
8. Rustic Dance D major
9. Spring Song C major
10. Quick March! A major
11. Full Moon F major
12. Dance of the Gnomes D minor
13. Happy Song G major
14. Sad Song G minor
15. Off to School C major
16. Mountain Climb G major
17. Sicilienne G minor
18. Sicilienne Variation G minor
19. Intermezzo Bb major
20. Virtuoso Variations G major
21. Sunshine and Flowers C major
