Saßmannshaus, Egon/Sassmannshaus, Kurt
Early Start on the Violin, Volume
A violin method for children
Description
Volume 2 in our series, with colour illustrations and easy-to-read fingering charts, contains not only nursery rhymes and folk songs but also classical recital pieces for two violins to help learners improve their ability to read music. They will become acquainted with dotted notes, 16th notes (semiquavers) and their first double stops as well as with changing between high and low finger positions. The volume is pioneering with its early introduction of playing in different positions: by combining finger patterns, the cornerstone of good scale technique, learners can play major and minor scales in every position without using open strings and this often in the very first year of lessons! This allows them to transpose the familiar nursery rhymes they have already mastered into other keys and higher positions. Together with the beginning shifting exercises, it provides a solid basis for early virtuosity a great advantage offered by no other tutor in the same way.
To accompany this volume we recommend the two volumes of the Violin Recital Album (BA 9668, BA 9669), edited by Kurt and Christoph Sassmannshaus and Melissa Lusk. They contain delightful recital pieces in first position with piano accompaniment and an optional second violin part, allowing young players to display their progress in recitals.
Content
· Preface
· The Third Finger Is The Tonic
· Triads In C major, G major And D major
· Songs With The New Finger Pattern
· The Dotted Quarter Note
· The Second Finger Changes Between High And Low Positions
· The First Finger Is The Lowest Note Of The Chord
· Triads In E major, A major And B major
· Exercises With The New Finger Pattern
· Changing Between High And Low Finger Positions
· The Three Finger Patterns
· Playing In Different Positions With The Three Patterns
· Double Stops
· The Second Finger Is The Tonic
· Triads In F major, B-flat major And C major
· Exercises With The New Finger Pattern
· Sixteenth Notes
· The First Finger Changes Between High And Low Positions
· C major Notes In First Position
· Exercises And Pieces In C major
Product informationEdition no.: BA09677
ISMN: 9790006536412
Composer/Author: Saßmannshaus, Egon / Sassmannshaus, Kurt
Title: Early Start on the Violin, Volume 2A violin method for children
Instrumentation of the work: Violin
Detailed instrumentation: Violin
Volume / Series: Bärenreiter's Sassmannshaus
Illustrator: Panowsky, Charlotte
Product format: Performance score
Instrumentation: Violin
Language(s) of text: English
Publisher: Bärenreiter
Binding: Stapled
Print run: 6th printing 2020
Pages/Format: 64 S. - 30,0 x 23,0 cm
The authors
In 1976 Egon Sassmannshaus, one of the most experienced and renowned violin teachers in Germany, published his tutor Früher Anfang auf der Geige. This standard work for young string players quickly became the most popular and best-selling tutor in the German-speaking countries for beginners on the violin. His son Kurt Sassmannshaus functioned as co-editor of the English-language edition, Early Start on the Violin (BA 9676, BA 9677, BA 9678, BA 9679), adapting his father's successful tutor to meet the needs and requirements of English-speaking children.
The combined knowledge and experience of both father and son make these four volumes the most thoroughly researched and thought-through violin tutor for beginners all over the world.
Editions in other languages
German: BA 9672
Spanish/English: BA 9665
French/English: BA 9667
