RCM Violin Technique, Etudes, and Musicianship 2021 Edition, Levels 3-4

Author: Royal Conservatory Of Music
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Violin
Levels: 3-4

Carefully selected and curated to support teachers and students in their artistic and technical development, the Violin Series, 2021 Edition includes pieces from a diverse range of eras and styles that represent stepping stones to major violin repertoire. Each level is constructed to link repertoire selections to necessary techniques and corresponding etudes, while illustrating step-by-step connections for developing core skills.

Building upon previous levels, Violin Technique, Etudes, and Musicianship 34 introduces new keys, expands finger patterns, and encourages skill development. Students will explore two-octave scales spanning first to fourth positions, chromatic scales, dominant 7th and diminished 7th arpeggios, double-stop exercises, and broken double-stop intervals in sixths. This book features etudes arranged in both solo and duet forms, providing students with chamber music experience. Commissioned works allow students to enjoy character pieces tailored to specific technical challenges.

This book further promotes the development of musicianship skills with sight reading offering increased understanding of tonality, rhythmic subdivisions, time signatures, and key signatures. Ear training exercises focus on interval and chord identification, clapbacks, and playbacks in major and minor keys.

Contents:

• Kites - Katharine Rapoport

• Who Has Seen the Wind? - Shirley Givens

• The First Skating Lesson - Yaakov Geringas

• The Fellow - Ramin Entezami

• The Fair Isle - Neil Mackay

• Etude in E Minor - Louis Metz

• Fivepenny Waltz - Mary Cohen

• Brazilian Boogie - Paul Harris

• Five-time Champion - Harold Birston

• Cabin Song, op. 18, no. 1 - Clarence Cameron White

• The Rare Red Aurora - Carmen Braden

• Spuzzum - Christine Donkin

• Rondo in D Major - Jacques Fereol Mazas

• The Growling Old Man and the Grumbling Old Woman - Traditional Acadian fiddle tune, arr. Duncan McDougall

• Etude in C Major, op. 45, book 1, no. 16 - Franz Wohlfahrt, arr. Kathleen Wood

• Sanngiyuulauqtut (How Strong They Were) - Mathew Nuqingaq, arr. Darlene Nuqingaq

• Grasshopper - Yaakov Geringas

• Inch Worm - Kathryn Bird Kinnard

• A Rhinoceros and a Sloth Have a Conversation - Paul Harris

• Melodious Double Stops No. 6 - Josephine Trott

• Preparatory Exercise for Chromatic Scales - Herbert Kinsey

• Hot Chocolate Treat (In the cafe on the corner...) - Mary Cohen

• Etude in D Minor - Franz Wohlfahrt

• Ostinelli's Reel - Traditional Old Time, arr. Zav RT

• Etude in C Major - Louis Sphor

• Etude in F Major, op. 45, book 1, no. 6 - Franz Wohlfahrt

• Elgin Reel - Duncan McDougall

• Little Rhapsody - Christine Donkin

• Etude No. 5 in E flat Major - Rodolphe Kreutzer

• Great Crush Collision (March) - Scott Joplin, arr. Kelly Parkins-Lindstrom