Violin

The latest addition to Hal Leonard's Essential Elements for Strings series is perfect for your advanced level students. Each book includes: detailed practice routine for scales three octave major and minor scales and arpeggios systematic fingering system for scales extensive shifting exercises for advanced positions shifting reinforcement in a musical context using unison orchestra excerpts advanced technical development sequenced rhythmic and bowing studies and more!

12 favorites from the Great American Songbook with play-along accompaniments on CD. Includes: Come Fly with Me Fly Me to the Moon (In Other Words) I'll Be Seeing You Love and Marriage My Kind of Town (Chicago Is) Take the A Train and more.

12 solos from Webber's greatest shows complete with full band accompaniment on CD. Titles include: As If We Never Said Goodbye Close Every Door Don't Cry for Me Argentina Everything's Alright Go Go Go Joseph Gus: the Theatre Cat Love Changes Everything The Music of the Night Our Kind of Love The Phantom of the Opera Unexpected Song Whistle down the Wind.

These 30 easy level (grade 2) violin duets from the masters, arranged by Rubank legends Harvey Whistler and Herman Hummel, are the ultimate way to introduce your youngest players to ensemble playing. Songs average 30-40 measures long, with optional repeats to create a longer piece at your discretion. Includes a treasure trove of titles: Abendlied (Schumann) Allegro from Der Freischutz (Weber) Ave Verum (Mozart) Carnival of Venice Chanson Triste (Tchaikovsky) Cielito Lindo Country Dance (Beethoven) Liebestraum (Liszt) Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes New World Symphony Excerpts (Dvorak) Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (students play the melody, not the triplet pattern) Jolly Coppersmith Melody for Strings (Rubinstein) Men of Harlech Menuet from Symphony No. 7 (Haydn) Procession (Handel) Theme from Fantasie Impromptu (Chopin) Rondo (Schubert) Theme from Symphony No. 1 (Brahms) Vienna Life (Strauss) Volga Boatman Waltz from HMS Pinafore

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) was the foremost composer and ambassador of tango music, who carried the signature sound of Argentina to clubs and concert halls around the world. This folio gathers 35 of his finest and arranges them for violin and guitar duets. Titles include: Adios nonino Buenos Aires Hora Cero Decarisimo Extasis Fievre (Fiebre de Tango) Greenwich La fin del mundo Made in USA Misteriosa Vida Nuevo Mundo Recuerdo New York Tango choc (Doudou) Yo canto un tango and more. Includes bio.

Solo arrangements of 12 songs with an accompaniment CD so instrumentalists can play along with a real band! Includes: Bridge over Troubled Water Bring Him Home Candle in the Wind Don't Cry for Me Argentina I Don't Know How to Love Him Imagine Killing Me Softly with His Song Nights in White Satin Wonderful Tonight more.

Includes 26 hit songs from his fabulous shows, including: All I Ask of You Any Dream Will Do Don't Cry for Me Argentina I Don't Know How to Love Him Memory The Music of the Night Only You Starlight Express Unexpected Song more.

An awesome collection of all the best Christmas songs, traditional and contemporary, including: All I Want for Christmas Is You Angels We Have Heard on High Auld Lang Syne Away in a Manger Blue Christmas The Chipmunk Song The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) Christmas Time Is Here Do They Know It's Christmas? Feliz Navidad Frosty the Snow Man Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm Last Christmas Let's Have an Old Fashioned Christmas Mele Kalikimaka Miss You Most at Christmas Time The Most Wonderful Time of the Year My Favorite Things Nuttin' for Christmas Pretty Paper Santa Baby Silent Night Wonderful Christmastime and more!

Instrumentalists will love these collections of 130 popular solos, including: Another One Bites the Dust Any Dream Will Do Bad Day Beauty and the Beast Breaking Free Clocks Edelweiss God Bless the U.S.A. Heart and Soul I Will Remember You Imagine Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye Satin Doll United We Stand You Raise Me Up and more.