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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMary Cohen’s Superduets 1 and 2 are both winners for beginner violinists and offer some exciting ways of introducing the basics of music reading and violin technique, together with ensemble training. Each of the ten pieces in book 1 is prefaced by a rhythm-and-beat exercise (on two staves) using the crotchet and its rest (‘wait’), and quavers. After showing the difference between beat and rhythm, she suggests a variety of ways of keeping the beat in both pizzicato and arco playing: she includes both the more usual clapping and stamping, and more novel suggestions, such as ‘flick hand from side to side like a cat’s tail’, ‘shrug shoulders grumpily’, tapping collegno, and tapping (the stand) with the screw end of the bow. The very short imaginative pieces are written on two staves and used to introduce pitch reading (including open strings G D and A, and the notes B (on the A String) and E and G (on the D String), dynamics and rhythmic control.
Music Teacher Magazine, May 2000
Table of ContentsA Tiny Dinosaur Chips Its Way Out Of An Egg; An Express Train Rushes Past; Chinese Lantern Procession; Did You Know?; Dudelsack; Hailstones Bouncing; Jellyfish Lazing Around In The Sea; Raindrops Dripping; Snowflakes Falling; The Witch's Clock Strikes; Two Bats Baterwauling; Two Cats Caterwauling; Weather Which Keeps Cats Indoors
