Viola Time Sprinters: Piano Book

 
9780193360822: Viola Time Sprinters: Piano Book

Synopsis

for piano This book contains the piano accompaniments for Viola Time Sprinters. Characterful and easy to play, these piano parts provide stylish accompaniments to the viola melodies, and help capture the spirit of the pieces. Essential for teachers and musical parents, these books will help motivate all young violists as they learn to play.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Biographie de l'auteur

Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons.), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series, Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and arranger.

Revue de presse

This book very generously has 38 pieces in it, all of which display the experience and understanding of this technical level that we have come to expect from these authors . . . The content, format and presentation of this volume is exemplary. ( Music Teacher, January 2009)

Viola Time Sprinters is another clever instalment in Kathy and David Blackwell's Viola Time series for beginner viola students . . . Viola Time Sprinters is a well thought out and extremely useful collection of fun music for beginning violists. ( Regan Toews, Canadian Viola Newsletter, August 08)

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.