Sounds on Strings/ getting to know your cello [Paperback]

Harry Spencer (Author), Maxine Alburty Madden (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 15, 1998

A pre-method or supplement for beginning students of the violin. This is a "kid friendly" book featuring larger notes, fun illustrations, and fun pieces. It is a valuable starting book for any age. Rote "aerobics" present the basic skills needed to build physical control of the instrument; at the same time note reading skills are presented a step at a time.

Available for these instruments: violin, viola, cello, string bass, and piano/teacher's manual.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A great teaching tool...wish I'd had it years ago!" -- Louise Saunders, a member of the Stockton Symphony, and the Valley Arts Quartet.

"I find 'Sounds On Strings' a very workable and attractive series for young students. The rhythms, clapping, pizzicato and arco combinations are fun and provide good incentives for advancement." -- Betty Iacovetti, Former string instructor of Fresno City College [retired] and currently on the music staff at Fresno Pacific University. She has a large class of private violin students of all ages.

"The fine layout of this book helps to promote student success and works very well in a beginning string orchestra. Teachers are able to guide the pace of their students with a basic concept per page. Congratulations!" -- Susan C. Brown, Director of Strings, Cabrillo College, Aptos, California Author of "Two Octave Scales and Bowings for the Violin and Viola"

"The simplicity of this book MAKES you learn faster. I love the pictures." -- Barak Hernandez, an adult beginning violin student with no background in music.

About the Author

Maxine Alburty Madden received her Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from the School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence and her Master of Arst degree from California State University, Fresno. She has taught string classes in Lawrence and Pratt, Kansas: Reno, Nevada and Fresno, California. In 1982 she observed Dr. Suzuki's teaching in Matsumoto, Japan. Currently, she has her own private studio for violin and viola in Fresno and is a violinist in the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra.

Harry Spencer received his Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and Master of Arts from Columbia University, NYC. He has taught both vocal and instrumental music in New Jersey and the San Francisco area. His major instrument is French Horn. He now resides in Fresno, California and plays in the Tulare County Symphony

Product Details

• Paperback: 33 pages
• Publisher: A M S E R (September 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893178021
• ISBN-13: 978-1893178021
• Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,466,095 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not For Adults, April 6, 2001

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"hermitus" (Hayward, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sounds on Strings/ getting to know your cello (Paperback)

I am a middle-aged writer/artist who bought this book hoping it would teach me something about the cello I recently rented and am trying to learn to play. This book, unfortunately for me, turned out to be a visual teaching aid for cello instructors who specialize in very young students who are amused by songs about eating hot dogs. It is my dream to play Luigi Boccherini well some day . . . ditties like Merrily We Roll Along are not the way I wanted to get started. The book has only two pages (simple drawings of a cello and bow) that contain any information whatsoever about the instrument, and one of those pages recommends games which encourage children to handle their bow like a toy, to be waved about like a worthless stick. If your child has a good bow, this is a very bad way to treat a valuable piece of musical equipment.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Strings & Scales, December 10, 2001

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This review is from: Sounds on Strings/ getting to know your cello (Paperback)

I'm an Adult Student and very interested in Beginning Cello Instruction books. If you don't know how to read music well - I found this book to be very helpful in explaining obscure things needed to read music. Other nicities the symbol for up bow and down, learning rests, etc. No book is as good as a teacher but this helps compliment them. It includes all those minutia but crucial points they seem to cram in a lesson and in the beginning we seem to forget.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bueno, August 24, 2001

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"cello_ali" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sounds on Strings/ getting to know your cello (Paperback)

Es un buen libro pero no comparto el hecho de enseñarles a los chicos a tocar números en vez de notas en un pentagrama. Justamente cuando tienen todo un mundo desestructurado por delante, enseñar números de dedos no me parece correcto. Hace tocar melodías totalmente escritas con números, sin figuras.