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CHORALES & WARM-UPS
Chorales & Warm-Ups
10 Intonation Studies and Chorales—
Brian Balmages. Enhance your warm-up and
develop stellar intonation with this thoughtful set of
ten intonation studies and chorales. Designed to help
students hear harmony in a logical and progressive
way, exercises include harmonizing scales to open
strings, the use of open string drones during chorales,
studies in various keys, attention to bow distribution
and much more. Complete with an extensive
discussion featuring practical uses for each study and
suggested combinations throughout the year.
10748213 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50.00
10748215 Additional Score. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.00
Bach and Before for Strings (Four-Part Chorales
from the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries)—
David Newell. Four-part chorales are a great way
to improve ensemble playing. And, since each book
includes all four voices - soprano, alto, tenor, and
bass - there are a number of programming options.
Students love playing chorales, because they sound
so good! The chorales range in difficulty from very
easy to very sophisticated and are suitable for year
two through high school string orchestras. This is
the perfect book for helping students master the
important concepts of chorale performance.
5990493 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.45
5990494 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.45
5990495 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.45
5990496 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.45
5990497 Piano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.45
Bach Chorales for Strings—J. S. Bach/Thurston.
J.S. Bach's wonderful chorales are perfect for
orchestras...for performance, warm-up, and for the
study of precise intonation and ensemble playing. This
set of 28 chorales retains Bach's original four-part
settings, with only octave doublings added for a richer
texture and to keep the instruments in a comfortable
range. These chorales are suitable for both concert
and church use, with several being appropriate for the
Christmas and Easter seasons.
2311132 Violin 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95
2311140 Violin 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95
2311157 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95
2311165 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95
2311173 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.95
2311124 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20.00
H Daily Warm-Ups for String Orchestra—
Michael Allen. This set of excellent warm-ups
provides a great way to start off your rehearsals.
This sequential set of exercises that can be used
at a number of different developmental levels.
Students will receive daily reinforcement of valuable
fundamentals as the exercises progress through these
techniques: tuning, warm-up patterns, finger patterns,
stylistic bowings, double stops, long tones, string
crossing, shifting, chromatic alterations, and scales.
2293512 String Orchestra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40.00
2360790 Additional Score. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.50
Fine Tuning—Frank Spinosa and Harold Rusch.
This collection includes 50 short pieces such as
chorales, classical works and folk tunes at the
intermediate level. The book is neatly organized by
key signatures and groups the major with its relative
minor, helping you teach key relationships while
building intonation skills and ensemble playing.
4918454 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.25
4918462 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50
4918470 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50
4918488 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.50
4918447 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.95
The First Ten Minutes—Merle J. Isaac.
This unique book for the developing orchestra
will immediately improve the group's intonation,
rhythmic accuracy, and balance. Five major keys are
comprehensively explored with scales, arpeggios,
broken thirds, scales in rhythms, and rhythm patterns.
Each tonal study area culminates in two ensemble
numbers suitable for performance.
4805057 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4805065 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4805073 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4805081 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4805040 Piano. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.50
4805032 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.95
Harmonized Rhythms for String Orchestra—
Charles Forque & James Thornton/
ed. Gerald Anderson. Learning to feel the pulse in
music is a necessary part of developing rhythmic
independence, and, ultimately, mature musicianship.
Harmonized Rhythmsprovides a resource of short
original exercises designed to promote rhythmic
precision with a unique melodic
and harmonic approach.
5464219 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
5464227 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
5464235 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
5464243 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
5464250 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.95
Rhythm a Week—Anne Witt. This is effective tool
encourages the mastery of common rhythms. Based
on Igor Hudaloff's ARhythm a Day,this technique
book targets specific rhythmic problems facing
string players. Students focus on isolated rhythmic
examples, and then apply the knowledgeto their every
day performances. An invaluable resource!
5661020 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.99
5661038 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.99
5661046 Cello/String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.99
5661053 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.95
Sound Innovations: Creative Warm-Ups
(for Intermediate String Orchestra)—
Bob Phillips, Kirk Moss, Matt Turner &
Stephen Benham. Sound Innovation: Creative Warm-
Ups emphasizes four aspects of string performance
essential to the refinement of musicianship and skill at
the intermediate level. The levels can be used in any
order as individual warm-ups or as structured units.
Students will develop high-level listening skills through
practicing intervals, chord tones and balance, various
chord qualities, drones, and extended hand patterns.
Students will also learn to analyze, audiate, and
perform bowing fluency exercises to learn expressive
bow strokes and execute fluid string crossings.
10775844 Violin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.99
10775845 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.99
10775846 Cello/String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.99
10775847 Conductor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34.99
Treasury of Scales—Leonard B. Smith. This is
a "must have" set of warm-ups! Consisting of 96
masterfully harmonized scales in all keys, major
and minor, this is an exceptionally useful, functional
book for building musicianship and awareness in
students of any age. Considered by many to be an
indispensable part of daily warm-ups, this outstanding
book should definitely be a part of every music library
from junior high through college.
4521407 Violin 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.99
4521415 Violin 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4521423 Viola . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4521431 Cello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
4509113 String Bass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.95
