The Essential String Method, Cello Book 2
- Instrumentation
- Cello
- Publisher
- Boosey & Hawkes, with the Guildhall School of Music & Drama (BH 1200469; ISMN 979-0-060-10513-5; ISBN 9780851625362); by Sheila M. Nelson with Catherine Elliott, Gerald Howard and Adrian Thorne
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About this piece
The second cello book of Sheila Nelson's Essential String Method, which teaches musicianship alongside technique through rhythm cards, singing, solfa and games. Its six stages bring in longer bows, louder and faster playing, slurs and new finger patterns through 26 short tunes and teacher duets, mostly by Nelson, with some by Catherine Elliott. Two of its pieces, Moravian Carol and Twinkle Duet, are on Trinity College London's Initial cello list.
Technical overview
Short first-position tunes with rhythm work, crescendos and diminuendos, and teacher-and-pupil duets. Later stages introduce slurs and a second finger pattern.
Technical focus
- Dynamics
- Ensemble Skills
- Hairpin Dynamics
- Rhythm
- Theory