RCM Violin Technique, Etudes, and Musicianship 2021 Edition, Levels 5-8

Author: Royal Conservatory Of Music
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Violin
Levels: 5-8

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 58 expands technical exercises to include three-octave scales and arpeggios, chromatic scales, dominant 7th and diminished 7th arpeggios, one-octave flageolets, and a mix of one- and two-octave double-stop chords consisting of thirds, sixths, and octaves. Etudes range from those by traditional composers to modern commissions that explore unique technical concepts.

Comprehensive musicianship skills are further developed through sight-reading passages where students encounter double stops, left-hand pizzicato, artificial harmonics, and a variety of articulations and position work within keys of up to four sharps or flats in simple or compound time. Ear training exercises focus on intervals, chords, chord progressions, clapbacks and playbacks.

Contents:

• Grande valse-ballet - Harold Birston

• Agitation - Yaakov Geringas

• Etude in C Major, op. 20, no. 1 - Heinrich Ernst Kayser

• Jolly Rondo - Susan Griesdale

• Melodious Double Stops No. 10 - Josephine Trott

• Etude in F Major, op. 32, book 2, no. 22 - Hans Sitt

• Etude in C Major, op. 45, book 2, no. 42 - Franz Wohlfahrt

• Dancing Digits - Christine Gale

• El cascabel (The Little Bell) - Lorenzo Barcelata, arr. Curtis J. Stewart

• Prelude - Mary Cohen

• Serpentine Scales - Harold Birston

• Etude in G Major - Enrico Polo

• Etude in A Minor, op. 45, book 2, no. 47 - Franz Wohlfahrt

• Etude in D Major, op. 74, book 2, no. 44 - Franz Wohlfahrt

• Tongue Twister - Yaakov Geringas

• Etude in G Major, op. 45, book 1, no. 28 - Franz Wohlfahrt

• Vigorously, op. 36, no. 10 - Jacques Fereol Mazas

• Cave of the Winds (March and Two-step) - R. Nathaniel Dett, arr. Kelly Parkins-Lindstrom

• Etude in A Minor, op. 20, no. 26 - Heinrich Ernst Kayser

• Etude No. 2 in C Major - Rodolphe Kreutzer

• Etude No. 3 in C Major - Rodolphe Kreutzer

• Wild Fire - Mary Cohen

• Etude No. 7 in D Major - Rodolphe Kreutzer

• Melodious Double Stops No. 17 - Josephine Trott

• Love My Mum - Yaakov Geringas

• Smoky River - Christine Donkin

• Etude in E flat Major, op. 20, no. 15 - Heinrich Ernst Kayser

• Etude in C Major, op. 20, no. 33 - Heinrich Ernst Kayser

• Exercise in A Minor, op. 37, no. 3 - Jakob Dont

• On Singing Tones, op. 36, no. 7 - Jacques Fereol Mazas

• Exercise in A Major, op. 37, no. 9 - Jakob Dont

• Ronde villageoise, op. 36, no. 30 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas

• Caprice in C Major, op. 3, no. 3 - Federigo Fiorillo

• Cantabile una corda, op. 3, no. 14 - Federigo Fiorillo

• Homage to the Red River - Alyssa Delbaere-Sawchuk

• Etude No. 15 in B flat Major - Rodolphe Kreutzer

• Barcarolle - Christine Donkin

• Lift Every Voice and Sing! - J. Rosamond Johnson, arr. Curtis J. Stewart

• Polonaise in G Major, op. 36, no. 26 - Jacques Fereol Mazas

• Finger Exercise, op. 36, no. 54 - Jacques Fereol Mazas