Sounds of a Rainbow for Student/Teacher Violin Duet or Easy Violin and Piano, Book 3

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Whether a student or a great artist, the desire to make a beautiful sound is a constant in the life of any musician. Sound is the musician's voice, the means of communicating an artistic vision to the audience and it should be the aim for children of any age or standard to be engaged in good tone production.

The inspiration for writing the pieces for this book came to me from the wish to give the young children I teach music which would develop their ear for both good intonation and beautiful tone production. All the pieces have a strongly implied harmonic structure allowing them to be played without accompaniment. The purpose of the second violin part is therefore to enable the teacher to underline the harmony as well as to influence the student's tone production and intonation through his own sound, as much can be taught by good example. The violin student also has the option to play with piano. The accompaniments included within this book are written by Heidi Rolfe.

The choice of keys in this book covers most of the requirements for scales in the Associated Board syllabus Grades 3 and 4.

Finally I think that children enjoy the challenge of expressing different moods and emotions musically, and I hope that the range of ideas implied by the keys and the titles of these pieces will fire their imagination.

- Nigel Goldberg

Contents

1. Gavotte E major
2. Song for Tanja G minor I & III
3. Morning Breeze A major I & III
4. Autumn Song Bb major
5. Carnival Time C major II
6. Silver Water E minor
7. Russian Winter . D minor II
8. Homage to Haydn G major
9. Song of a Rainbow F major II
10. A Summer Day Bb major
11. Sebastian’s Song G minor I & III
12. Irish Reel A major
13. Walking Sadly D minor III
14. Happy Song C major II
15. Sad Song C minor II
16. Little Paganini G major
17. By the Light of the Moon Ab major
18. Polka B minor
19. Virtuoso Variations G minor

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