36 SEVEN PIECES FOR THE ORGAN COMPOSED BY ALEXANDRE GUILMANT. FIRST SONATINA in A minor. Op. 74 "Must be classed as one of the finest works in modern organ literature. The first movement is practically in usual Sonata form. The development section is particularly brilliant, and the quiet cadence leading into the recapitulation is of arresting beauty." "The slow movement, in the nature of a chaconne, is beautiful and restful. A brilliant cadenza leads to an exciting introduction to a most interesting triple fugue (confined to manuals). Afterwards the composer works backwards through the sections preceding the fugue, unwinding himself, as it were, before starting on a magnificent Coda befitting a magnificent work."-Daily Mail. London: NOVELLO AND COMPANY, Limited. A Modern School for the Violin BY AUGUST WILHELMJ AND JAMES BROWN. THE purpose of this Work is to provide, in one systematic and comprehensive scheme, all that is necessary for the acquirement of the Art of Modern Violin Playing. "A Modern School for the Violin" consists of Six Books devoted to Daily Technical Practice, Six Books of Studies for Violin alone, and a number of Pieces with Pianoforte Accompaniment, the Violin parts being specially edited for the purposes of teaching. SECTION A.-TECHNICAL PRACTICE. IN SIX BOOKS. The foundation of "A Modern School for the Violin" is laid by means of a series of Six Books dealing exclusively with the important subject of DAILY TECHNICAL PRACTICE. The First Book of Technical Practice (Book IA) is limited to the 1st Position; the Second Book (2A) to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Positions; the Third Book (3A) to the first five Positions; and so on. Bowings and other technical devices are introduced in a similarly progressive manner throughout. Each Book of Technical Practice is divided into "Lessons" (or Chapters), and each Lesson contains a number of short repeating Exercises on some definite point of Violin Technique-as Fingering, Bowing, &c., with the needful explanations. Included in each Book will be found a complete set of Scales and Arpeggi, arranged according to the particular stage of advancement reached. Taken as a whole, this section is intended to facilitate, and to insist on, a thorough, steady, and continuous progress in the mastery of the Instrument, this being the only possible means of preparing the groundwork for artistic achievement with all its lasting delights. SECTION B.-STUDIES. IN SIX BOOKS. Section B is formed of a series of original and selected Studies, in Six Books. Each Book of Studies (Section B) is carefully co-ordinated, in respect of difficulty and range of subject, with the correspondingly numbered Book of Technical Practice (Section A). Thus the First Book of Studies (1B) is written in the 1st Position; the Second Book (2B) in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Positions; the 3rd Book (3B) in all Positions up to and including the 5th; and so on. It should further be explained that the two Sections are designed to complement one another, and that the "School" must be practised, not in single Books of Technical Practice and Studies alternately, but in pairs. Thus, Books 1A and 1B are to be taken concurrently, then Books 2A and 2B, 3A and 3B, and so on, and the appropriate pairs are now issued bound together in cloth (see Cloth Bindings below). No. 19. No. 20. No. 13. TWELVE FOLK DANCES FROM DENMARK In completion of the scheme of "A Modern School" a number of Pieces are published, in a form designed to fulfil the requirements of Violin Teachers and Students. In each number the Violin part is furnished with complete Fingerings and Bowings, besides remarks as to the methods of rendering, &c. (1st to 6th Position) 2s. od. PIERRE RODE (Op. 9). (All Positions) 2s. 6d. (1st Position) 25. od. TWELVE CAROLS BALLADE AND POLONAISE. SONATA IN A. W. A. MOZART LONDON: NOVELLO AND COMPANY, LIMITED. |