This gentle Andantino in G major is the third of de Bériot's 12 Petits Duos. It's a sweet and wholesome piece with a slightly darker, more turbulent middle section.
This gentle Andantino in G major is the third of de Bériot's 12 Petits Duos. It's a sweet and wholesome piece with a slightly darker, more turbulent middle section.
The New Round O is a tune from The Dancing Master, a big book of music and instructions for English Country Dances, first published in 1651 by John Playford.
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You'll need some violin-playing friends for this one! Each piece is a canon (or round), which means you play together but starting at different times!
Ain't this an oddity! Bizzarie by Ancelotti is a quirky duet with many chromatic twists and turns. Bring out its eerie, dance-like qualities with vibrant bow strokes!
Stay up to date with the repertoire that you have learnt. What are you learning now, what's still 'active', and what are you going to learn next?
Keep a record of what you have achieved in each of your practice sessions, as well as discoveries and new insights that have occurred to you whilst practising!
Use this Practice Plan template to help clarify your goals, and what you're going to achieve in each of your practice sessions.
The yearningly melancholic Prelude No. 4 in E minor by Chopin, from his set of 24, Op. 28. It’s originally for piano, but we think it’s pretty nice on the violin, too!
This piece features lots of semitones, with a swinging feel to the music. Use the bow movement to give momentum to your phrasing, and watch out for the glissandi!
Après un Rêve by Gabriel Fauré is a song about a dream of running away with an imaginary lover, towards an ecstatic light... we've arranged it here for the violin!
This energetic, upbeat March was composed by Johann Strauss Sr to celebrate a victory by Field Marshal Radetzky von Radetz. It was premiered in Vienna in August 1848.
Joseph-Hector Fiocco is best known for his virtuoso showpiece ‘Allegro’, arranged here for TWO violins!
King George II wanted to celebrate the end of a war... so he asked Handel to write him some music! This fiery piece premiered alongside a giant firework display...
Home Sweet Home is a ViolinSchool favourite! A lovely, yearning melody written by David Worswick that’s full of longing and nostalgia.
… plip-plop … plip-plop … here’s the absolutely gooooorgeous melody from Chopin’s Prelude No. 15, known as the “Raindrop” prelude.
Scuttlefish, Scuttlefish! is a delightfully quirky little piece with lovely, flowing passagework in G major and E minor... Enjoy … glug, glug!
'Air' is one of J.S. Bach's most famous pieces of music, known the world over. This memorable tune was originally written for a small chamber orchestra to play.
This beautiful melody was written by David Worswick especially for ViolinSchool. It’s a gorgeous, nostalgic tune, dripping with expression. Tuck in!
Chopin was inspired by Bach's '24 Preludes & Fugues' to write his 24 Preludes of his own! This is the 7th - written in the style of a Mazurka (a Polish folk dance).
Practise lots and lots of different combinations of tones (whole steps) and semitones (half steps) to create some fabulously evocative patterns!
Get ready to play the Rumbango by practising these rumbangolicious arpeggio exercises. Feel the groove of the syncopated rhythms and irregular beats!
This study is jam-packed full of violinistic nutrients … scales, arpeggios and lots of string crossings! And, there are 72 bowing and rhythm patterns to choose from!
Make sure there’s nothing makeshift about the way you make shifts! Glide smoothly between 1st and 3rd position on each string, landing perfectly in tune every time!
Take a deep deep dive, descending chromatically in semitones (half steps) and then make sure you come back up for air! Oh, and don’t get eaten by any sharps!
