Cello Time Duets -

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Résumé :
for cello duet
Cello Time Duets is an exciting and attractive collection for cellists of all ages by the award-winning educational composers Kathy and David Blackwell. With repertoire ranging from imaginative original compositions to arrangements of classical and folk music, there is something for everyone in this varied selection. The duets carefully progress from pieces suitable for established beginners through to repertoire ideal for students at approximately Grade 4 and beyond. In addition, there six mini duet warm-ups exploring different techniques and skills. Some duets have parts of equal difficulty, while others have an easier part and a harder part, making the book ideal for students at different levels to play together. With lively concert repertoire and fun sight-reading material, this excellent resource will develop players' ensemble skills as well as providing much to enjoy!...

Biographie:
Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons.), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series, Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and arranger. In 2017 Kathy and David Blackwell received two awards: from ESTA UK in recognition of their exceptional services to string teaching, and from the Oxfordshire Music Education Partnership for significant contribution to music education in Oxfordshire and beyond.

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Sommaire:

• Let's Celebrate!


• Bird Song


• Run for your life!


• Bill Grogan's Goat


• Lani sem kupil


• Silver Moon Boat


• Buttered Peas


• Sharing a Surprise!


• Lullaby for Angus


• Two Trick Pony


• Sort of Rocky


• Eh soom boo kawaya


• Morag's Cradle Song


• Melody: from String Quartet, No. 13, Op. 130


• Rondeau: from String Quartet, Op. 1 No. 6


• March: from Six Marches, HWV 419


• Simple Gifts


• One, two, three, four, paper hat


• Dance: from 12 German Dances, WoO 13 No. 9


• La Mourisque


• Swallowtail Jig


• Menuet: from The Anna Magdalena Bach Book of 1725


• Arpeggio Games


• Ma Yofus


• Terzinka


• Allegretto: from Sonata for Violin and Keyboard, Op. 1 No. 3


• Early one morning


• Gymnop?die: from Trois Gymnop?dies


• Gavotta: from Violin Sonata, Op. 2 No. 9, RV 16


• Celebration Canon