24 Classic Solos for Strings – Cello
by Various · arranged by Kathryn Griesinger
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2024
- Publisher
- Carl Fischer (BF176; ISBN 9781491166895; piano accompaniment sold separately as BF178)
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About this piece
A collection of 24 short recital and contest pieces for cello and piano, edited and arranged by Kathryn Griesinger. Fifteen of the pieces are by composers who are rarely heard in student books. They include Florence Price (Adoration), the Afro-Cuban violinist José White (El Pensamiento), Rentarō Taki (Menuetto) and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (Viking Song), plus children's and salon pieces by Cécile Chaminade, Amy Beach, Mélanie Bonis, Louise Farrenc, Emilie Mayer, Amanda Maier, Louise Reichardt, Pauline Viardot and Sophie Gail. The rest are familiar teaching pieces by Handel, Mozart, Schumann, Grieg, Tchaikovsky and others. Each piece fits on one page, which makes the book a good source of a first recital piece for students who have finished a first-position method.
Technical overview
Mostly first position in friendly keys (D major, A minor), with forward and backward extensions marked (x1, x4, -2) and occasional accidentals. Bowings include slurs of two to four notes, hooked dotted-eighth/sixteenth pairs, tenuto and staccato notes and long legato lines, with rit./a tempo and coda signs to navigate.
Technical focus
- 2 Note Slurs
- 3 Note Slurs
- 4 Note Slurs
- A String Notes
- Accidentals
- C String Notes
- Collaboration with Piano
- D String Notes
- Dotted Rhythms
- Dynamics
- Extensions
- G String Notes
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Hooked Bowings
- Legato
- Staccato
- Tempo Changes