de Keyser | Violin Playtime | Book 2

With Violin Playtime, the beginner violinist can make music from the very first lessons. In the three books that make up the series (all of which are available from Waltons), there are over a hundred little pieces with piano accompaniments, a treasure-trove of attractive tunes – some traditional, some by composers of the past, some newly composed. But this is more than just an easy anthology; the underlying approach is 'learn as you play', and a carefully devised ground plan of technical development makes it a manual in disguise, a tutor without text.

This book is approximately Grade 1-2 level. Lively illustrations contribute visually to the excitement of learning the violin.

Contents:

• Arne: Allegro from The Fairy Prince
• Balkan Traditional: Stamping Dance
• Boismortier: Minuet
• Bulgarian Traditional: Fast Dance, Folk Dance, Hora, Song without Words, The Winter, Winter's Frost Is Here at Last
• Campagnoli: Minuet, Rigaudon
• Contredanse (17th century)
• Diabelli: Vivace
• Folk Songs: Little Brown Jug, Morris Dance, Sicilian Chorale, Slovak Song, The Vicar of Bray, Ukrainian Dance, Valsette
• French Traditional: J'ai du bon tabac, Pussy-cat in the Snow
• German Traditional: Song of the Huntsman
• Gervaise: Canon
• Gypsy Ballad
• Hadjiev: Song without Words
• Lully: Andante
• Mozart: The Trumpets
• Plainchant: In the Monastery
• Polish Traditional: Down-bow Polka
• Praetorius: Canon
• Russian Traditional: At Prayer, Lament, Russian Dance
• Ukrainian Traditional: Carnival, Spring Has Come, The Gossip