CelloSongs Book 1: Fun Pieces for Learner Cellists
by Thomas Hewitt Jones and Alison Moncrieff-Kelly
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 2025
- Publisher
- Stainer & Bell (H517; ISMN 9790220230288)
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About this piece
Twelve original pieces for cello and piano by composer Thomas Hewitt Jones and cellist Alison Moncrieff-Kelly, an ABRSM examiner who was "the ABRSM Cello Consultant on the current syllabus"[1]. The set opens with Wistful Waltz, a homage to Adam Carse, and moves through a pavan, a calypso, a lament, a swing number and Smiley Scales. Some pieces add small bits of theatre, such as counting aloud and tapping on the side of the cello in Lunch Break. Each piece comes with performance notes, and QR codes link to recordings and piano-only backing tracks for practice at home.
Technical overview
Written in first position, in keys such as D minor, A minor and C major, mostly in crotchets, minims and quavers. Slurs run to four quavers, some two-note slurs leap across strings, and the Lament has off-beat entries tied across the beat. The waltz ends on a held low D on the C string, and dynamics run from p to mf with hairpins.
Technical focus
- 2 Note Slurs
- 4 Note Slurs
- C String Notes
- Collaboration with Piano
- Dynamics
- String Crossings
- Syncopation