Viola Time Scales: Pieces, puzzles, scales, and arpeggios - Softcover

9780193358942: Viola Time Scales: Pieces, puzzles, scales, and arpeggios

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0193358948 ISBN 13: 9780193358942

Publisher: Oxford University Press Music, 2007

Viola Time Scales is filled with creative ideas to make learning scales and arpeggios easy and fun. Packed with lively original tunes, well-known pieces, and easy duets, the book is carefully paced and organized to build confidence every step of the way. The emphasis is placed firmly on having a good time while learning - with Viola Time it really is fun to play!

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About the Author:

Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons.), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore. David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series, Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and arranger.

Review:

The inside cover of Viola Time Scales reads: "WARNING! Open this book and you may seriously enjoy playing scales and arpeggios!" And that just might be true. Viola Time Scales is a fantastically fun little exercise book laid out in two-page sections for each key that it presents ... It is useful for any student just learning to read music and might even serve as a first etude book. The book is well organized, increasing with difficulty and skill as it progresses. Regan Toews, Canadian Viola Society Newsletter, Autumn 07

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