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Eastern European Fiddle Tunes

Catalogue No: ED12886D
80 Traditional Pieces for Violin

Arrangementviolin
Product FormatSheet Music/Online Material
EditorCooper, Pete
£17.50
Typically dispatched in 5-7 working days
SeriesSchott World Music
Pages72
Publication Date3 November 2021
Grade of Difficultyeasy - intermediate
ISBN9781847615381 (1847615384)
ISMN9790220138935 (M220138935)

Following the success of 'Irish Fiddle Solos' and 'English Fiddle Tunes', Pete Cooper's new book contains a rich selection of tunes from many Eastern European countries including Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Macedonia, and pieces from the Klezmer tradition. There are 80 tunes in a variety of styles: mazurkas, polkas, kolomyikas, freylekhs, horas, csárdás, legenyes, sîrbas, rucenitsas, kopanitsas, etc. The material is wide-ranging in complexity, including very simple pieces as well as many more challenging tunes requiring intermediate to advanced technique. The introduction provides explanations of rhythms, scales, modes, and notes on the individual tunes. As with many other books in the series, there are MP3 files that can be downloaded for free, with all the pieces performed by Pete Cooper.

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. How "different" is this music?
  3. Scales and Modes
  4. Fiddle Chords
  5. Position Shifts
  6. Asymmetric Rhythms
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Recorded sources
ED12886D