Waggon Wheels
by Katherine Colledge and Hugh Colledge
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1991
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes
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About this piece
Waggon Wheels is a book of 26 short pieces for young cellists by Katherine and Hugh Colledge. It is the second volume of their Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series, following Stepping Stones. Boosey describes the series as introducing 'new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations'. In this volume the pieces 'cover 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers and slurred bowing'. The pieces have picture titles such as In a garden, Penny-farthing, Westminster Abbey, Knickerbocker glory, Windscreen wipers and Lollipop man. Katherine wrote the string parts and Hugh the piano accompaniments. The music is © 1988, and the cello version is © 1991. Boosey sells a cello book with online audio (BH 13829) and an edition with piano accompaniment. The publisher's demonstration and accompaniment tracks are by Carina Drury and Robin Bigwood. Pieces from the book are set for ABRSM Initial Grade and Grade 1, Trinity Initial and Grade 1, and RCM Preparatory and Grade 1.
Technical overview
26 short first-position pieces in simple metres, usually a page or less each. Boosey says they work on 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers and slurred bowing. The one page of score seen, No. 1 'In a garden' (D major, 4/4), uses only separate crotchets on the D string (D–E–F#).
Technical focus
- D String Notes
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