Cello - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1319837 By DaCapo Primary Music. By Fred Plowright and Jane Cutler. Children,Classical,Contemporary,Folk,Instructional. Educational Method. 131 pages. DaCapo Primary Music #908395. Published by DaCapo Primary Music (A0.1319837). Welcome to The Singing Cello which is one of the Singing Instrumentalist series of books written for beginners of all instruments.The book gives a selection of entertaining repertoire and a thorough and complete musical experience from the very beginning.It is presented in four sections, each designed to introduce a particular aspect of music making, whilst taking on board instrumental skills. We invite teachers to use The Singing Cello as they see fit, mixing and matching sections and songs to give a balanced and enjoyable combination of singing, playing an accompaniment, playing the melody, rhythm work, composition and playing duets.The book enables pupils, teachers and parents to make a successful start with the chosen instrument.When the book has been completed, The Singing Cellist will have developed a clear understanding of the function of notation, an ear that can hear tuning and two parts and also be able to enjoy more dissonance as well as pure harmony. The Singing Cellist should be well on the way to becoming a ‘Complete Instrumentalist’, which is, coincidentally, the name of the book that follows this one!Jane Cutler Director of DaCapo MusicYou can find more DaCapo pieces for young instrumentalists at DaCapo Music Shop

Cello - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.549203 Composed by Gabrieli. Arranged by James M. Guthrie, ASCAP. Renaissance,Standards. 58 pages. Jmsgu3 #3461839. Published by jmsgu3 (A0.549203). Instrumentation: 8 Cellos arranged in two choirs. Full Score: 28 pg. Study Score: 14 pg. Parts: 2 pg. ea. Innovations First of all, Gabrieli preferred sacred vocal and certainly instrumental music. Hence, he concentrated on music that consequently took advantage of resonance and likewise reverberation for maximum effect. Seems like Gabrieli may have invented dynamics – or was rather the first to indicate them such as in his Sonata Pian’ e Forte. Consequently, he was also a pioneer in spatial techniques. He therefore developed and used very specific notation to indicate instrumentation. Gabrieli experimented with assembling massive instrumental forces into isolated groups separated by space. In this way, he consequently contributed heavily to the Baroque Concertato style. Polychoral Works Gabrieli probably used the layout of the San Marco church for his experiments. This is because he worked there as a musician and composer. Furthermore, the church had two choir lofts facing each other. He certainly used these to create striking spatial effects between instrumental forces. Certainly, many of his works are composed such that a choir or instrumental group could first be heard on one side, then consequently followed by a response from the group on the other side. Sometimes there was probably a third group positioned near the main altar as well. Spatial Music Above all, Gabrieli studied carefully detailed groups of instruments and singers. Furthermore, it seems like he created precise directions for instrumentation in rather than two groups. The instruments, because they could be appropriately situated, could consequently be heard with perfect clearness at distant locations. As a result, arrangements that seem bizarre on paper, can in contrast sound perfectly in balance. First Works Finally, Gabrieli published his first motets along with his uncle Andrea's compositions in Concerti (1587). These compositions furthermore indicate considerable usage of dialogue and echo effects. Consequently, here we see low and high choirs with the variance between their ranges indicated by instrumental accompaniment. Seems like Gabrieli’s later motets Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) move away from close antiphony. In contrast, he moves towards not simply echoing the material but developing it through sequential choral entrances. Even more, he takes this procedure to the extreme in the Motet Omnes Gentes. Unlike earlier works, here the instruments are certainly an essential part of the presentation. Also, only parts marked: Capella are supposed to be sung. Homophony Hence, after 1605, Gabrieli moves to a much more homophonic style. He writes sections purely for instruments – which calls Sinfonia – and smaller sections for vocal soloists, accompanied by a basso continuo.

Cello Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1104802 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #708040. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1104802). This book is perfect for beginners and those seeking to improve their musical skills.Boasting popular tunes like Happy Birthday and For He's A Jolly Good Fellow, it contains an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the BASS clef a breeze.Created with CELLO PLAYERS in mind, each page of the book is packed with teaching points, guidance notes for both students and teachers, a chart of note values, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, simple technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes.  Perfect collection for teacher-student play-along.Professional musician Keith Walker endorses this book, wishing he had access to it 50 years ago. Its simplicity and versatility make it popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers, as it can be played on any instrument.This book is an excellent resource for individuals of all ages and classrooms, available in 10 different versions for all Western art musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.A must-have for beginners of any age.

Cello Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1104324 By Various. By Various. Arranged by Robert A KEATCH. Children,Christmas,Instructional,Multicultural,Traditional,World. Individual part. 32 pages. PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA #707535. Published by PARKLAND PUBLISHING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (A0.1104324). This book is perfect for beginners and those seeking to improve their musical skills.Boasting popular tunes like Happy Birthday and For He's A Jolly Good Fellow, it contains an impressive collection of easy-to-learn melodies and duets that make reading and playing the BASS clef a breeze.Created with CELLO PLAYERS in mind, each page of the book is packed with teaching points, guidance notes for both students and teachers, a chart of note values, the Circle of Fifths for major keys, scales, simple technical exercises, and an alphabetical index of tunes.  Perfect collection for teacher-student play-along.Professional musician Keith Walker endorses this book, wishing he had access to it 50 years ago. Its simplicity and versatility make it popular among elementary school instrumentalists and teachers, as it can be played on any instrument.This book is an excellent resource for individuals of all ages and classrooms, available in 10 different versions for all Western art musical instruments, allowing for unison or octave play.A must-have for beginners of any age.

Cello Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1029293 Composed by CÉSAR CANO. Contemporary,World. Individual part. 16 pages. POLYHYMNIA Ediciones musicales #4799037. Published by POLYHYMNIA Ediciones musicales (A0.1029293). Perfil del ánima (Profile of the anima), Op. 86 is a solo cello piece written in a single movement. It is part of the series of PROFILES that I am composing since 2002 for solo instruments. The anima is a concept expounded by C.G. Jung in his book The Man and his Symbols. It is a personification of all female psychological tendencies in the psyche of a man, such as vague feelings and moods, prophetic forebodings, receptivity to the irrational, personal capacity for love, love of nature and, very importantly, his relationship with the unconscious. It is best perceived in dreams. If the dreamer is a man, he will discover a female personification of his unconscious. If it is a woman, it will be a male figure. Jung named them respectively anima and animus. My work has some quotes that evoke the anima, as a fragment of the 2nd movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony, which he wrote under the fascination of Alma Schindler, his future wife. Another citation is a motif of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka, an elf from Slavic mythology, which usually lives in a lake or river. Rusalka is an ancient fairy-tale figure, already appearing in literature in 1387. Her longing is to become a human being and to love as an earthly woman, even at the price of suffering and death. My piece evokes this inner and unconscious dialogue between the masculine and feminine in all of us, represented by the cello’s low and high registers. The use of many and varied instrumental resources (chords, microtones, harmonics, timbral variations, complex rhythms, tremolos, glissandi, pizzicati, etc.), together with its broadness and thematic complexity, make Profile of the anima a demanding work for the soloist. I finished its composition on December 21th, 2016. It is dedicated to Rafał Jezierski, who performed its world premiere on February 14th, 2017, in the Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, within the cycle of concerts organized by the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos.

Cello Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.844590 Composed by Charles Czerny. Arranged by Phil Beaman. Classical,Folk,Instructional. Individual part. 3 pages. Phil Beaman #3928129. Published by Phil Beaman (A0.844590). This fun piece is loosely based on a popular Russian folk polka. In 1853 Charles Czerny took this polka tune and created a piano etude as part of his set Amusement des Juenes Amateurs. I have taken some of his themes and adapted and arranged them for instrumental solo. I have assembled them into a Rondo form: Intro-A-B-A-C-A-D-A-Coda.  It is an etude (study) to sharpen your playing of scales, arpeggios, melodic interval leaps, and various articulations. But it doesn't at all sound like an exercise because of the playful nature of the polka. This dramatic piece shows your technical accomplishments while delivering a crowd pleasing tune with great flourish.I have marked it as Intermediate in difficulty as a general average. The notes and rhythms are Easy, the quick Tempo makes it Early Intermediate, and the range which is a half step beyond a full 2 octaves makes it Advanced Intermediate for some instruments. Has double stops in the intro and coda.3 pages, 1:45 minutesTemporary piano recording of instrument part