This unaccompanied jazz-style piece is popular with advanced pupils. It features many technical challenges including much double stopping, awkward shifting and string-crossing, many kinds of articulation and dynamic contrasts.
This expressive piece requires musical phrasing, good bow control and careful attention to intonation, especially in diminished chords.
The complete Suite can be tackled by pupils of Grade 8 standard, while the Courante and two Menuets are accessible to Grade 6 pupils.
Each of the six movements has its own character. All require fine bow control and a variety of different articulations, including repeated patterns, uneven bowing and string-crossings.
The Suite can serve as a useful introduction to stylistically appropriate concepts of phrasing and dynamics.
A mixture of fast and cantabile movements in an approachable contemporary style. It is a feast of contemporary effects such as arco battuto, tremolo, LH pizzicato and false harmonics.
The movements are: Make me a Garment; No Justice; The Wind Blow East; The Keys to the Prison; Trouble, Trouble.
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A good introduction to compound rhythm. The second half of the piece is identical to the first, but with the addition of slurs.
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