Piano,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1318327 Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Lauri Hamalainen. Chamber,Children,Classical,Instructional,Traditional. Educational Method. 60 pages. Suomi Music #906990. Published by Suomi Music (A0.1318327). Violin Friends Method Book 2: 49 progressive pieces and fun exercises for intermediate violin students.Let’s play, together!Violin Friends Method Book Volume 2 is a fun and colorful collection of great music for the intermediate violin player presenting music from F.Wohlfart, J.S.Bach, A.Vivaldi, J.Kalliwoda, H.Purcell, L.van Beethoven, W.A.Mozart, D.Kabalevsky, S.Saroyan, P.Tchaikovsky, F.Alday, J.Strauss, C.Dancla, O.Sevcik, J.Trott, A.Carse, E.Spiess, and L.Hämäläinen, as well as folk music from Finland.Violin Friends 2 is the second part of the Violin Friends family of music books.Every method book uses QR codes to open play-along videos on the Violin Friends Youtube channelViolin Friends method book 2 contains:Warming-up exercises4 scales in 2 octaves25 duos21 small pieces3 trios13 technical exercisesAll Violin Friends music is easily learnable with the help of simplified piano parts, Youtube play-along videos on the Violin Friends Youtube channel, and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud and the Violin Friends homepage www.violinfriends.com.Fun music for motivation, growth and improvement.The Violin Friends series of music books aims to inspire beginning string players and to give them much joy through music. Play, Together, Joy!Do to want your students to practice more, learn faster, and get better grades at examinations?Violin Friends and Viola Friends method books have a proven track record of taking teaching to the next level with innovative ways of engaging students since 2016.The books will inspire students to learn music independently at home and make the teachers' jobs easy. Violin Friends combines the most effective ways to build up the playing technique and enables students to use these skills immediately. Every new scale is followed by engaging duos and carefully selected pieces by the most influential classical composers. Students will learn the music faster with the help of play-along videos on Youtube and mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud. Students who have studied the books are known to have made faster progress, performed more often, and got better grades at examinations.Benefits for teachers include one book combining warming-up exercises, repertoire, scales, etudes, great music that inspires students, and a time-saving teaching method that makes teaching easy and more fun.Students will be motivated to play music with their friends right from the beginning of their studies. They will be happy to use a colorful and fun music book with a magnificent repertoire, lots of play-along videos on Youtube, and free mp3 backing tracks on SoundCloud.

Piano,Violin - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.886697 Composed by Panagiotis Theodossiou. Concert,Contemporary,Standards. 76 pages. Panagiotis Theodossiou #3575309. Published by Panagiotis Theodossiou (A0.886697). Hellenic Suite, for violin and piano (2010)      I.Seashore Procession, Thalassaki (traditional tune from Dodekanisos)    II.Dance of the Youngsters, Pentozalis (traditional tune from Crete)    III.Litany in Spring, Egomia (from the Evening Service of Holly Epitaph)    IV.Dance of the Elders, Matoklada (rebetiko carsilama tune by Markos Vamvakaris)    V.Ancient Ritual, Orestes Stasimon (from Orestes Tragedy by Euripides)     VI.Dance of the Past, Dance (traditional tune from Heipiros)   VII.Homelands Lost, Mia Smyrnia stoPapathyri (traditional tune from Asia Minor)  VIII.Dance of the Future, Pyrihios (traditonal dances from Sera and Shereanit'sa  from Pontos)      Four laments, four dances. Eight scenes depicting Hellenic History from 6th century B.C., or even earlier, up to our days, based on fragments of ancient Greek music, folk and byzantine tradition and rebetiko song tunes as well. From Greece of the distand past, to Greece of the present and, maybe, to Greece of the years to come, Hellas of the Future.      The work is dedicated to the Greek Composer Giannis Konstantinidis. It has been performed by Andrea Hemmenway and Konstantinos Papadakis in Fall Arts Concert organised by Hellenic University Club of Philadelphia in The Ethical Society Hall of  Philadelphia in 2010. The same artists perfomed the work at Kendal Concert Hall in Kendal, Pennsylvania in 2011.       Version for viola and piano available. Excerpts of violin - piano version has been performed by Tania Sikelianou and Timos Gennatos at : Ellinikon Eidyllion, Selianitika, Aigion in 2011.