World Music

First Things First is a collection of traditional folk songs, classical themes, rounds, and original pieces representing over ten countries and styles from around the world. The compositions are arranges to be extremely versatile in meeting the needs of younger beginners in an elementary level string orchestra. Each instrument has the melody line as well as an additional harmony line. By using all the parts, a string orchestra is achieved. With the addition of the piano, any size string class can successfully perform these selections.

Top Tunes is a popular series of 50 favourite melodies, all in easy-to-play arrangements that the beginner will soon feel at home with. A glance at the titles in every book will show the broad range of classical favourites, folk songs, children's songs and show songs. As well as the clearly printed melodies, chords are provided for guitar or keyboard accompaniment.

Study & Play is ideal for developing your playing in an enjoyable and musically sound way. Each edition within this concept features a CD to add something extra to your study routine. When you play this Israeli Concertino the CD allows you to practice at a slower study tempo, as well as the normal tempo, so that you can improve your insight into the music. This carefully edited volume also contains a violin part and a piano part. Of course, the superb CD is also great to play along with if there's no pianist available. This instructive piece will bring you much fun and is sure to enrich your repertoire.

Celebrate a year of holidays, and add a musical flavor to your celebrations with these 40 tunes arranged for two players. Some of the tunes even have lyrics to enhance the fun. Each Tunes for Two collection consists of individual spiral-bound duet books presented in score form with melody on the top line and harmony beneath so you can play each tune by yourself or with others. Duo arrangements of the tunes in this collection, in the same keys, are available for violins, violas, cellos, basses, mandolins, soprano recorders, and alto recorders. The tunes in this collection are laid out so that there are no page turns to interrupt the flow of your playing.