Description

This carefully curated collection features a graded selection of melodic cello and piano pieces that provide practice with the keys, note ranges, and fingering patterns typical of the early grades. The wide-ranging repertoire spans composers from Tallis to Tchaikovsky and Beethoven to Vaughan Williams. Each volume presents the pieces in chronological order, noting the year each was written.

Songs / Content

• 1. Melody in the Third Mode [Tallis]
• 2. Fairest Isle (from 'King Arthur') [H. Purcell]
• 3. Adoring I suffer from Julius Caesar in Egypt [George Frideric Handel]
• 4. Bist du bei mir [Stolzel]
• 5. Blow, blow thou Winter wind [Thomas Arne]
• 6. Minuet from Concerto Grosso in B minor [William Boyce]
• 7. Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo [Gluck]
• 8. Andante from Sonata in G, Op. 12 [Schonebeck]
• 9. Humming Song from Album for the Young [Robert Schumann]
• 10. Softly awakes my heart from Samson and Dalila [Saint-Saens]
• 11. Humoreske [Tchaikovsky]
• 12. On a tree by a river from The Mikado [Sullivan]
• 13. Dedication [Enrique Granados]
• 14. Je te veux [Eric Satie]
• 15. For the flowers are great blessings from Rejoice in the Lamb [Benjamin Britten]
• 16. Black and White Blues [Paul Harris]