Methods, Educational Material and Collections
Renate Bruce-Weber
Die fröhliche Violine Geigenschule für den Anfang Vol. 1 96 pages – paperback 23,1 x 30,3 cm € 14.95 ISBN 978-3-7957-5433-4 · ED 7299 Vol. 2 128 pages – paperback 23,1 x 30,3 cm € 17.95 ISBN 978-3-7957-5462-4 · ED 7786 Vol. 3 144 pages – paperback 23,1 x 30,3 cm € 18.95 ISBN 978-3-7957-5463-1 · ED 8432 The most important aspect of the violin method ‘Die fröhliche Violine’ is the fun of learning to play the violin: The textbook is aimed at an early playful beginning with the instrument. Over the course of the lessons, the pupils are deliberately addressed in a language that corresponds to their age. Furthermore, the method provides a stylistically varied range of classical and folkloristic instrumental pieces, and always gives a lot of interesting information on the music and its composers. Vol. 1: Detailed introduction to the bow hold – songs and instrumental pieces, using exclusively the first type of fingering while focussing on rhythmic, melodic and technical variety – playful touching and feeling of violin-playing techniques such as pizzicato, position playing, harmonics and double stops. Vol. 1 is accompanied by a CD (T 3272) containing all songs and pieces with funny dialogues spoken by children. A motivating addition to violin lessons and a great gift idea! Renate Bruce-Weber was born in Braunschweig in 1956. At the age of 7 she received her first violin lessons and won many prizes and scholarships, such as from the festival ‘Jugend musiziert’ and the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, USA. She studied violin with Professor Ludwig Müller-Gronau at the North West German Music Academy of Detmold and chamber music with Professor Wilhelm Isselmann. She taught violin at the Hamburg Conservatoire where she founded a children’s orchestra with which she gave many successful concerts. Since 2003 she has taught mainly children from Hamburg, St. Pauli in cooperation with primary schools in Hamburg.
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