First Lessons Cello (Book + Online Audio)
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- Description
Publisher: Mel Bay
Series: First Lessons
Level: Beginner
Instrumentation: Cello
Page Count: 32
ISBN: 9781513460765
Item Number: 30661M
This text presents beginning cello technique and basic music reading fundamentals. There is an emphasis on using melodies and classical pieces to instruct each new concept. The 28 lessons include basic technique and reading skills, scales in the keys of D, G, C and F and 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.
The book includes access to online audio containing all of the exercises and pieces recorded with solo cello and piano accompaniment. It is useful as a teaching and practice tool as well as a performance accompaniment track.
Contents:
- Andante Grazioso, Wolfgang A Mozart
- Allegretto, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Bonaparte’s Retreat Theme from Rodeo
- "Bourée" from Water Music, George Frederic Handel
- British Grenadiers
- Can, Can, Jacques Offenbach
- Camptown Races
- Country Gardens
- Dixie
- Etude, Nikolai Paganini
- Fanfare Minuet
- French March
- Gavotte
- Gavotte
- Gavotte from Sonata No. 2 , Opus 5, George Frederic Handel
- Gavotte in G
- Gavotte in D, Arcangelo Corelli
- German Dance, Ludwig van Beethoven
- German Dance in D, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Glockenspiel, Wolfgang A Mozart
- The Harmonious Blacksmith, George Frederic Handel
- Hungarian Folk Song Number, Bela Bartok
- Jamaica English Dance Tune
- King William’s March, Jeremiah Clarke
- "Largo" from The New World Symphony, Anton Dvorak
- Lavender’s Blue
- Lightly Row
- London Symphony, Joseph Haydn
- "Marche" from The Algerian Suite, Camille Saint-Saens
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Menuet, J S Bach
- Minuet, Georg Philipp Telemann
- Jingle Bells
- Ode to Joy, Ludwig van Beethoven
- The Old Gray Goose
- Ride, Ride Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Rigaudon, Henry Purcell
- Russian Dance Tune
- Scherzando, Bela Bartok
- Simple Gifts, Shaker Melody
- Soldier’s March, Robert Schumann
- Sonatina, Ludwig van Beethoven
- Surprise Symphony, Joseph Haydn
- Symphony Theme, Johannes Brahms
- "Theme" from the Fourth Symphony, Franz Schubert
- Trumpet Minuet
- Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
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