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The Essential String Method

 

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Description

Description

The award-winning "Essential String Method" offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments, integrating musical awareness, creativity and technical development from the outset.
Making their way through the series, pupils encounter an attrractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activites involving both the instrument and the voice. These make learning fun and are easily incorporated into instrumental lessons, simultaneously developping the pupil's technical and musical abilities while reinforcing aspects of the school music curriculum.
Developed by leading string teachers, "The Essential String Method" provides a proven framework that draws on recognised concepts in good teaching practice, laying reliable foundations for future musical development.

Content

All in a Garden Green (Nelson)
All through the night (Nelson)
Apple Pie (Nelson)
Autumn from The 4 Seasons (Vivaldi arr Nelson)
Berceuse (Weber arr Nelson)
Boatman (Nelson)
Camptown Races (Foster arr Nelson)
Carnival Waltz (Elliott)
Conversation Piece (JS Bach arr Nelson)
Dance for a Party (Haydn arr Nelson)
Dr Johnson's Jig (Nelson)
Ecossaise (Beethoven arr Nelson)
Farmer's Fancy (Nelson)
Fill Every Glass (Nelson)
Fly like a Bird (Nelson)
High Jump (Nelson)
I am a fine musician (Nelson)
I have a Bonnet (Nelson)
Kumba Yah! (Nelson)
Lament (Thorne)
London Bridge Variations (Nelson)
M. Duport's Minuet (Mozart arr Nelson)
March (Handel arr Nelson)
Marching Scale (Nelson)
Michael Finnegan (Nelson)
Microwaltz (Nelson)
Midstream (Nelson)
Minuet (Telemann arr Nelson)
Moto Perpetuo (Nelson)
Mrs MacWalter (Nelson)
Mrs Merryweather (Nelson)
New Waltz Variations (Nelson)
Old French Song (Tchaikovsky arr Nelson)
Old MacDonald (Nelson)
Pease Pudding Hot (Nelson)
Peggy Morton (O'Carolan arr Nelson)
Peripatetic Polka (Nelson)
Poor Old John (Nelson)
Reeling Around (Nelson)
Row the Boat (Nelson)
Spring Time Round (Schubert arr Nelson)
Square Scale (Nelson)
Swinging Scale (Nelson)
The Busybody (Nelson)
The Last Word (Nelson)
This Old Man (Nelson)
Turkey in the Straw (Nelson)
Turn the Glasses Over (Nelson)
Two German Dances (Nelson)
Two Minuets (Mozart arr Nelson)
Upon Paul's Steeple (Nelson)

Other editions

BH 1300174 = Double bass Vol. 3 (English edition)
BH 1200472 = Cello Vol. 3 (English edition)
BH 1100143 = Viola Vol. 4 (English edition)
BH 1000850 = Violin Vol. 1 (English editon)
BB 1200516 = Cello Vol. 1 (German edition)
BH 1200469 = Cello Vol. 2 (English edition)
BB 1000949 = Piano accompaniment Violin Vol. 3 + 4 (German edition)
BB 1000947 = Violin Vol. 4 (German edition)
BH 1000895 = Violon Vol. 4 (English edition)
BH 1100141 = Viola Vol. 2 (English edition)
BB 1000948 = Piano accompaniment Violin Vol. 1 + 2 (German edition)
BB 1200518 = Cello Vol. 3 (German edition)
BB 1200519 = Cello Vol. 4 (German edition)
BH 1100142 = Viola Vol. 3 (English edition)
BB 1200517 = Cello Vol. 2 (German edition)
BH 1000889 = Violon Vol. 2 (English edition)
BH 1100137 = Viola Vol. 1 (English editon)
BH 1300175 = Double bass Vol. 4 (English edition)
BH 1200450 = Cello Vol. 1 (English edition)
BH 1300165 = Double bass Vol. 1 (English edition)
BH 1200473 = Cello Vol. 4 (English edition)
BH 102377 = Piano accompaniment violin/viola Vol. 1 + 2 (English edition)
BB 1000945 = Violon Vol. 2 (German edition)
BH 1000894 = Violin Vol. 3 (English edition)
BB 1000944 = Violin Vol. 1 (German edition)
BB 1000946 = Violon Vol. 3 (German edition)
BH 102378 = Piano accompaniment cello/double bass Vol. 1 + 2 (English edition)
BH 102380 = Piano accompaniment cello/double bass Vol. 3 + 4 (English edition)
BH 1300173 = Double bass Vol. 2 (English edition)
BB 1200529 = Piano accompaniment cello Vol. 1 - 4 (German edition)

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