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Review: ‘Dragonscales’ Makes Learning Strings an Adventure
Violist Nick Revel has produced an enjoyable, extensive, and adventurous exploration of left- and right-hand exercises for violin, viola, and cello.

Violist Nick Revel has produced an enjoyable, extensive, and adventurous exploration of left- and right-hand exercises for violin, viola, and cello.

Bärenreiter, a publisher known for scholarly attention to historical source materials, has now released another urtext for the Schumann concerto.
This book covers information every cellist needs to know in a way that preempts common errors and misconceptions.

This trio of eminent and experienced string teachers has collaborated to produce 'Teaching Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass,' an in-depth study of historical and modern pedagogical practices
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This sumptuous combination of an artist’s sketchbook and an architectural design statement features work by the lead architect for the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge and Tanglewood House

The suites are among the highlights of 18th-century string literature and have also long been performed on viola

Dvořák’s Violin Concerto has in more recent times gained the recognition and appreciation it deserves

His six string quartets show the range and variety of his new style, from its formative stages to his consummate artistic development over decades
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Kanneh-Mason invites cellists on an enchanting tour with treasures from all eras

Despite her short career, she found her own voice in music, exemplified in these four short, expressive works

Driven by deep love and an infectious sense of wonder, Vernon has written a different kind of Beethoven book

In the 20th century, composers increasingly began writing for the viola, encouraged by the emergence of eminent soloists.
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This is a heartfelt story of musical connections and personal history, vividly and powerfully told

The authorized biography of the Syrian-born bassist and pedagogue François Rabbath is unbelievably thorough

Group biography of the British composers Ethel Smyth, Rebecca Clarke, Dorothy Howell, and Doreen Carwithen weaves together the stories of these four high-achieving women

Debussy wrote these two short dances to a commission from the instrument-making firm of Pleyel, keen to market its newly developed chromatic harp.
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For all its atonality, Schoenberg’s Second Quartet reverts to the classic four-movement form.

Here are three in a series of over 50 books arranged by Wolfgang Birtel for two, three, and four cellos, including pieces by Scott Joplin, Edward Elgar, and Angel G. Villoldo.

With 16 carefully graded pieces in each book of Solo Time for Violin, repertoire ranges from the Baroque to modern and introduces various styles and techniques for the developing performer.

Jean Sibelius' Malinconia for cello and piano rewards the players with a soulful opening cello cadenza and a hauntingly beautiful melody that brings out the cello’s most captivating tonal qualities.
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Many young violin students will be familiar with Joachim Raff’s Opus 85, not realizing that it is the third of six equally enchanting pieces of Opus 85.

Schott's "Joy of Music: Virtuoso and Entertaining Pieces for Violin & Piano" is aimed at professional musicians and advanced amateurs interested in new discoveries outside the standard repertoire.

This Offenburg 2-violin adaptation of Bach's 15 Inventions by Mihoko Kimura is based on Bach’s autograph manuscript for clavier, originally intended as teaching material for his sons.

Grazyna Bacewicz's "Easy Pieces for Violin & Piano," penned in 1945—five in each of two books—is ideal for the beginning years of lessons.
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