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Fun Tunes for Strings with CD (Violin)
Bud Caupto
Beginning Violin
Fun Tunes for Strings with CD (Violin)
Juilliard Store
144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States
by Bud Caputo
A delightful collection of familiar songs and carols from all over, this set of books with playalong CD is a treat for the beginning string player. Each book is loaded with melodious gems that can be played as solos or together with other players. Each selection is designed to help young students learn to shape phrases, breathe with the music and use the beginning fingerings learned on the A and D strings for violin, viola and cello and the G and D strings for the bass. Also included are fingering charts and the play-along CD has a lively jazz and pop combo-styled rhythmic accompaniment. Fun Tunes for Strings contains: Are You Sleeping, Merrily We Roll Along, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Jingle Bells, Allouette, When the Saints Go Marching In and more – 31 popular melodies in all!
Contents:
- Hot Cross Buns
- Merrily We Roll Along
- Camptown Races
- Jolly Old St. Nicholas
- London Bridge
- Long Long Ago
- Lightly Row
- Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
- Old McDonald Had A Farm
- Au Claire de la Lune
- Are you sleeping?
- Jingle Bells
- "A Tisket, A Tasket"
- Michael Row the Boat Ashore
- The Carnival of Venice
- Tom Dooley
- Blow the Man Down
- Pop Goes the Weasel
- Alouette
- This Old Man
- This Old Man
- Caisson Song
- Looby Loo
- When the Saints go Marching In
- Up on the Housetop
- Skip to my Lou
- French Folk Song
- Row Row Your Boat
- My Dreydl
- Ode to Joy