Cello Practice, Cello Performance

Author: Miranda Wilson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442246782
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 155

Book Description
What does it mean to perform expressively on the cello? In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, professor Miranda Wilson teaches that effectiveness on the concert stage or in an audition reflects the intensity, efficiency, and organization of your practice. Far from being a mysterious gift randomly bestowed on a lucky few, successful cello performance is, in fact, a learnable skill that any player can master. Most other instructional works for cellists address techniques for each hand individually, as if their movements were independent. In Cello Practice, Cello Performance, Wilson demonstrates that the movements of the hands are vitally interdependent, supporting and empowering one another in any technical action. Original exercises in the fundamentals of cello playing include cross-lateral exercises, mindful breathing, and one of the most detailed discussions of intonation in the cello literature. Wilson translates this practice-room success to the concert hall through chapters on performance-focused practice, performance anxiety, and common interpretive challenges of cello playing. This book is a resource for all advanced cellists—college-bound high school students, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professional performers—and teaches them how to be their own best teachers.

Cello Secrets

Author: Brian Hodges
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538102870
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 189

Book Description
Cello Secrets explains over 100 of the most helpful insider tricks cellists use to master the instrument. With each technique carefully explained and illustrated, the book serves as an accessible textbook for all advanced cello players, from talented teenagers to college students, to conservatory pre-professionals. This book guides advanced students through technical maintenance and performance preparation, helping them beyond what can be covered in lessons. Co-written by Brian Hodges and Jo Nardolillo, these tips grow from extensive study of the art of high-level teaching with many of today's leading pedagogues, and have been developed into strategies, tricks, and techniques that are taught in masterclasses and seminars around the country. The book provides: Insightful Information Demystifying Cello Technique Troubleshooting Practical tips and advice Experienced professionals talking from their own career Cello Secrets organizes these ideas into a single book, and will have great value for private teachers and as a textbook in cello pedagogy courses. Professionals and skilled amateurs can use the text as a guidebook in improving their own skills.

Position Pieces for Cello

Author: Rick Mooney
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457404986
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
Position Pieces for Cello is designed to give students a logical and fun way to learn their way around the fingerboard. Each hand position is introduced with exercises called "Target Practice," "Geography Quiz," and "Names and Numbers." Following these exercises are tuneful cello duets which have been specifically composed to require students to play in that hand position. In this way, students gain a thorough knowledge of how to find the hand positions and, once there, which notes are possible to play. Using these pieces (with names like "I Was a Teenage Monster," "The Irish Tenor," and "I've Got the Blues, Baby"), position study on the cello has never been so much fun!

Cello Playing is Easy

Author: Tanya Lesinsky Carey
Publisher: Careyworks Incorporated
ISBN: 9780979405303
Category : Cello
Languages : en
Pages : 162

Book Description
"This five book series will guide the emerging or experienced cellist or teacher through concise, organized steps to becoming or producing a fine cellist. It is designed to be an on-the-music-stand companion for a daily journey of cello discovery."--P. [4] de la couv.

Notes for Cellists

Author: Miranda Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780197623732
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Cello Practice

Author: Philippe Malgrat
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2322220469
Category : Music
Languages : fr
Pages : 68

Book Description
This guide is intented for adult music loverswho want to learn to play an instrument avoiding as much as possible theoretical academic lessons. It is mostly a collection of useful information, adapted to the present time, to learn cello playing by your own after a few preliminary lessons. Then, after one or two years of practice, you will reach a sufficient level to approach the baroque German, French and Italian repertoire as well as pieces of variety, what I did. You can even play at home with a virtual accompaniment that will adapt to your rhythm, fruit of the latest research of IRCAM (French Research Institute of Music). This guide includes practical considerations, often unknown, such as the transport of your instrument by plane, the free and legal downloading of scores, the sites where to find a teacher who will come to your home. For a total monthly budget of less than $ 100 for the first three months, including the first lessons, all this is accessible to you !

One Hundred Years of Violoncello

Author: Valerie Walden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521607612
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
The first book to address the full range of performance issues for the violoncello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. Richly illustrated with over 300 music examples, plates and figures, this book provides playing instructions which can easily be applied by modern players to their own performance of period music.

Cello Playing for Music Lovers

Author: Vera Mattlin Jiji
Publisher: Cello Playing for Music Love
ISBN: 1412095603
Category : Cello
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
You can teach yourself to play the cello. This comprehensive, authoritative guide covers basics to Bach. Including 116 selections, it explains reading music, playing-by-ear and theory. Play-along CD.

113 Etudes for Cello

Author: Friedrich Dotzauer
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781494329785
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
Perhaps Dotzauer's most famous cello work is his 113 Etudes in four volumes. Masterfully prepared by him, this edition is a reprint of the authoritative G. Schirmer plate 26746 printed around 1917. This is the first volume in the series. 57pps, Extra note and staff paper in back for teacher annotations. Edition Fleury 2013. A must have for any student, teacher or cellist to have in his/her library.

Practice for Performance

Author: Daniel Morganstern
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 9780786643646
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Practice for Performance provides a rare and intimate view into a very thoughtful and successful performer's personal toolkit. Set in the context of his own personal history of growth as a performer, cellist Daniel Morganstern (principal cellist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York) displays rare honesty in discussing the problems that faced him at various point of his career, and the ways to solve them. The discoveries sensibly unfold in a fascinating account of experiences with many notable artists whose comments and examples shaped the author's thinking. These ideas are not to be found in any other treatise on the subject of musical preparation. The examples in this book, both musical and non-musical, offer a foundation to help evoke instinctive musical responses in the mechanical processes of playing the cello, and have been advantageously applied to other instruments as well, including voice.