de Keyser | Violin Playtime | Book 3

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 takes violinists to Grade 2 standard. Lively illustrations contribute visually to the excitement of learning the violin.

Contents:

• Cossack Dance, Fleur Valse, From Old Vienna, Grande Etude
• Austrian Traditional: Bugle Call
• Bulgarian Traditional: Presto, The Forest and the Plain, Yearning
• Balkan Traditional: Heroes' March
• Cui: Innocence
• Dutch Traditional: Clog Dance
• English Traditional: Michael Finnigan, Over the Hills and Far Away, The British Grenadiers, The Ploughman, To the Maypole
• German Traditional: Buzz, Buzz, Buzz; The Cockerel
• Gluck: Aria from Iphigenia
• Kabalevsky: Galop
• Polish Traditional: Krakowiak
• Russian Traditional: Circus Bearfight, Hora, The Icy Wind, Winter's Journey
• Tchaikovsky Russian Folk Song
• Telemann: Minuet