CARL FISCHER/PRESSER - 8258
Holmes Above The First Position
Composer: Rupert Holmes
Publisher: Carl Fischer Music
Instrumentation: Beginning Violin
Holmes Above The First Position
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Holmes Above The First Position
Juilliard Store
144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States
Holmes Above The First Position
Juilliard Store
144 West 66th Street
New York NY 10023
United States
by Markwood Holmes and Russell Webber
This is a comprehensive approach to the second, third, fourth and fifth positions for the violin. Accompanied by detailed notes and instructions for each position, this book is largely devoted to mastering the third position. It builds a foundation for students interested in masterful violin playing and encourages them to study the higher positions further.
Contents:
- Playing in the Third Posion on the A string
- Waltz Steps
- Playing on the E string
- Marching Practice
- On the A and E Strings
- String changes, Using the 1st and 2nd Fingers
- In Springtime
- A Bugler's March
- String changes, Using the 1st and 3rd fingers
- String changes, Using the 1st and 4th fingers
- Scale of D major
- The Clown (French Folk Song)
- Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes
- First and Third Position Changes
- O Come All Ye Faithful
- On the D String
- Dancing in the Country
- Scales and Intervals
- On the D String
- Dancing in the Country
- Scales and Intervals
- Belgian Folk Dance
- Dance
- On the G String
- French Folk Song
- G and D Strings
- Theme from Symphony No. 1
- Scales
- Arpeggios (Broken Chords)
- Gliding of the Fingers
- Melody
- Marching
- Shifting with the second finger
- Drifting Along
- Shifting with the third finger
- From the Orient
- Scales and Arpeggios
- Harmonics
- Scales and Arpeggios
- English Dance
- Etude in B Flat
- The Diminished Fifth
- Spinning
- Shifting with the fourth finger
- March Song (Folk Song)
- Shifting with different fingers
- Siberian Nights
- Blue Skies
- Shifting with different fingers
- Sailing
- March in C
- Shifting, as in scales
- The Minstrel Boy (Folk Song)
- Waltz in D
- Change of Positions on same note (Finger Substitution)
- Minuetto
- Change on the same note, Different strings
- 1st finger extension
- String Changes
- Theme
- Shifting with Change of Bow Using Same Fingers
- Chorale
- Shifting with Change of Bow Using Different Fingers
- Summer Fancies
- Shifting to Harmonics
- Alpine Waltz
- Shifting to harmonics with the 3rd and 2nd fingers
- Memories
- Other Natural Harmonics
- Reveille
- The 2nd position on the A string
- On the E, and A and E strings
- In Old Paris (Two Folk Songs)
- On the D string
- Mental Twister
- Old English Dance
- On the G string
- Swiss March
- Rondo
- Connecting 1st and 2nd Positions with same finger
- Gliding
- Watch Your Steps!
- March in C
- Chromatics (Half Steps)
- Sighing Pines
- The Fourth Position
- Scale and Arpeggio of D
- Long, Long Ago
- From the E to the A string
- The Wild Rose
- Shifting with the same finger
- Shifting with different fingers
- Scale and Arpeggio in minor
- Romance (Old French Song)
- Major Scales
- Etude Caprice
- The Fifth Position
- Waltzing in Paris
- Shifting between 1st, 3rd, and 5th positions
- Cradle Song
- D String Study
- On the G and D Strings
- On the Hike
- Tambourin
- Short arpeggio Studies
- Military March