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. Canon [Tallis]
• 2. Branle des Sabots (from Orchesographie) [Thoinot Arbeau]
• 3. Ayre, What is it all? [Thomas Campion]
• 4. Allemande (from Banchetto Musicale) [Schein]
• 5. Song 22 [Gibbons]
• 6. Italian Rant [Anon.]
• 7. Minuet [H. Purcell]
• 8. Minuet from Music for the Royal Fireworks [George Frideric Handel]
• 9. Trio from Minuet No. 5, XII Menuets pour le Clavecin ou Pianoforte [Joseph Haydn]
• 10. Das klinget so herrlich from The Magic Flute [Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]
• 11. Marmotte Op. 52 No. 7 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
• 12. Liebhaber in allen Gestalten (Lover in many forms) [Franz Schubert]
• 13. Ein Jungling liebt ein Madchen (A youth loves a maiden) from Dichterliebe [Robert Schumann]
• 14. The Little Sandman [Johannes Brahms]
• 15. Chanson Russe from Album for the Young [Tchaikovsky]
• 16. Czech Dance [Smetana]
• 17. The Elephant from The Carnival of the Animals [Saint-Saens]
• 18. Andante from Very Easy Melodious Exercises in the First Position, Op. 22 [Elgar]
• 19. Moravian Folk Song [Janacek]
• 20. The Bear [Rebikov]
• 21. A New Year Carol from Friday Afternoons, Op. 7 [Benjamin Britten]
• 22. March