Violinworks Book 1

Tuning notes

Pizzicato open strings, String names, Feeling the pulse, Missing beats, and Reading rests

Open String Waltz (pizz.)

Feeling the pulse (Two beats)

Cha cha cha (pizz.)

Pizzicato polka

Minuetto from 'Don Giovanni'

The Fiddler Tunes Up

Pachelbel’s Canon (Open strings)

Cha cha cha (Higher bow)

Bluegrass Waltz

Open String Waltz (arco)

Tuneful Octaves

Call and response (1st-finger)

Pachelbel’s Canon (1st-finger)

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Habañera from 'Carmen'

Russian Polka

A Gasn Nigun

Indian Song

The Cajun Fiddler (1st-finger)

Call and response (High 2nd-finger)

Diarra Lora Lora

Shake Them ’Simmons Down

Au clair de la lune

Spanish Dance

Prelude

Lyme Bay

Maiden Castle

The Bell Ringer

Mattachins (Sword Dance) from 'Capriol Suite'

Swiss Dance

There goes the train that carried my girl from town

Hungarian Folk Song

Lavender’s Blue

Okayama Gardens

TRY…

Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

Botany Bay

Ode to Joy

‘Das klinget so herrlich’ from 'The Magic Flute'

Trällerliedchen

Down by the Salley Gardens

Bunessan

Because he was a bonny lad

La Marmotte

The Devil in the Bush

Call and response (Dotted crotchet rhythms)

Auld Lang Syne

Aire

Largo from the ‘New World Symphony'

Southwind

Un Poco de Tango

I’ll mount the air on swallow’s wings

Frère Jacques/Mahler Symphony No. 1 (Third Movement)

Bushes and Briars

The Raggle Taggle Gypsy

Scarborough Fair

Die Hoffnung

‘Non sò più cosa son, cosa faccio’ from 'The Marriage of Figaro'

Freu dich sehr, o meine Seele

Dundai

Korobeiniki

Sliding Semitone Blues

Childgrove

Tuuditan Tulisoroista

The Turtle Dove

Call and response (Syncopated rhythms)

Old Folks at Home

Deep River

Siyahamba

Matilda

Call and response (Compound time and semiquavers)

The Kesh Jig

Sonata in G (First Movement)

Colorado Cottonwood

Theme from ‘Spring’ (First Movement)

Milonga

Blow the Wind Southerly

Canaries