Compatible String Ensembles: Easy Concert Duets

Description

30 Easy Level Arrangements for Any Combination of String Instruments

Learning to play chamber music is an important milestone in the music student’s journey. These progressive duets offer beginning players the opportunity to play along with others, or with the helpful support of the teacher in a lesson. Each duet adds new techniques and challenges that align with the natural advancement of lessons to build ensemble skills. This book features familiar melodies from traditional, folk, and Classical repertoire including tunes that many string teachers will recognize from Suzuki books. Appropriate for recitals or even small group concerts, there are 30 selections of different tempi, styles, and keys for variety, while remaining in string-friendly ranges.

Violin | Viola | Cello | Bass
Composers: George Frideric Handel • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Korean Folksong • French Folk Song • Spanish Folk • Czech Folk Song • Traditional • Isabella Leonarda • Antonín Dvorák • Clara Schumann • Scottish Folk Song • Thomas Bayly • Lowell Mason • Edvard Grieg • Johann Sebastian Bach • Ludwig van Beethoven • Johann Pachelbel • Henry Purcell • Shaker Tune • Antonio Vivaldi • Welsh Folk Song • Joseph Bologne • Johannes Brahms • George Root • Gioachino Rossini • Charles Tindley • Franz Wiedemann

Contents:
• Air (from Water Music (by George Frideric Handel)
• Andante grazioso (from Piano Sonata No. 11) (by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
• Arirang (by Korean Folk Song)
• Au Clair de la Lune (by French Folk Song)
• De Colores (All the Colors) (by Spanish Folk Songs)
• Dobrú Noc (Good Night) (by Czech Folk Song)
• French Folk Song (by Traditional)
• Frère Jacques (Round) (by French Folk Song)
• Largo from Sonata No. 1 (from 12 Sonatas, Op. 16) (by Isabella Leonarda)
• Largo (from Symphony No. 9) (by Antonín Dvorák)
• Lieder Op. 12, No. 4 (Liebst de um Schönheit) (by Clara Schumann)
• Light Row (Hänschen klein) (by Franz Wiedemann)
• Loch Lomond (by Scottish Folk Song)
• Long, Long Ago (by Thomas Haynes Bayly)
• Merrily We Roll Along (by Lowell Mason)
• Morning Mood (from Peer Gynt Suite) (by Edvard Grieg)
• Musette in D (BWV Anh. 126) (by Johann Sebastian Bach)
• Ode to Joy (from Symphony No. 9) (by Ludwig van Beethoven)
• Pachelbel Canon (by Johann Pachelbel)
• Rigaudon (by Henry Purcell)
• Simple Gifts (by Traditional Shaker Tune)
• Spring (from The Four Seasons) (by Antonio Vivaldi)
• The Ash Grove (Llwyn Onn) (by Traditional Welsh Melody)
• The Water is Wide (by Scottish Folk Song)
• Theme from Sonata No. 1 (from Six Sonatas for Two Violins</i) (by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges)
• Theme from Symphony No. 1 (by Johannes Brahms)
• There's Music in the Air (by George F. Root)
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (by Traditional French Melody)
• We Shall Overcome (by Charles Albert Tindley)
• William Tell Overture (by Gioachino Rossini)