Cello Time Runners (book 2) + CD / cello
| Publisher | OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Genre: |
classical & sacret
music for music school jazz, blues, ragtime & swing spirituals, folk, country & traditional |
| Arrangement: | melody |
| Cast: |
solo
duet |
| Format: | book + CD |
| Series: | Cello Time |
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| Product code: | OUP220850 |
| Author / Editor: |
Blackwell, Kathy
Blackwell, David |
| No. of songs: | 34 |
| Pages: | 32 |
| Language: | English |
| Size: | 23 x 31 cm |
| Weight: | 152 g |
Audio examples
Songlist (34)
- Start the show
- Banyan tree
- Heat haze
- Medieval tale
- Chase in the dark
- Spy movie
- Gypsy dance
- Pick a bale of cotton
- On the go!
- That's how it goes!
- Blue whale
- Mean street chase
- Allegretto in G
- Trad.: Cornish May Song
- Daquin: Noel
- Prelude from Te Deum
- Paris café
- Starry night
- Cello Time rag
- Caribbean sunshine
- Jacob's dance
- Song from the show
- The road to Donegal
- Cat's eyes
- Mexican fiesta
- Summer evening
- Extension rock
- Show off!
- You and me
- One day
- Aerobics!
- Hungarian folk dance
- Show stopper
- Farewell to Skye
Product description
Cello Time is a great series for young cellists. Packed with lively original tunes, easy duets, and traditional pieces, the books are carefully paced and organized to build confidence every step of the way. With plenty of entertaining illustrations and a CD to play along to, with Cello Time it really is fun to play! The book includes: pieces using 2nd finger, pieces using backward and forward extensions, A range of styles from folk to jazz, semi-quavers, dotted crotchets, and 6/8 time, duets with parts of equal difficulty. Scales and arpeggios of the keys in the book, plus G major 2 octaves. Music Fact-Finder page to help explain words and signs. CD with performances of all the pieces to play along to. Pieces counted in, drumkit added for the jazz and rock numbers. Straightforward piano and cello accompaniments available separately.
Kathy Blackwell is English composer, arranger and music teacher. She 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 was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals, and a contributor to the accompanying book All Together! Teaching music in groups. She has worked for Music Services and privately and her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time with her husband, David.
David Blackwell is English composer, arranger and music teacher. He studied music at Edinburgh University. He has written and edited a wide range of educational music for strings and for piano, including Piano Mix and Piano Star (ABRSM), The Foundation Pianist (Faber, 2 vols.), Get Set Piano Christmas Crackers (HarperCollins) and pieces in Piano Time series. His choral and organ music is published in the UK and America, and includes Carols for Choirs book 5, In the Mood and Oxford Hymn Settings for Organists, six volumes of hymn preludes.
