Product Description

This instruction book along with the accompanying DVD and CD is the perfect start for an Absolute Beginner of any age on the Violin!

There are many familiar folk, fiddle, sacred and classical melodies with short warm-up exercises and study pieces to advance students technically in an easy and enjoyable way! Simple duets, scales, a note-reading worksheet, glossary and practice chart are also included in this book along with many graphs to show left-hand finger placement.

This ABCs of Violin Book 1 is the first in a series of five books. The method features melodies by composers such as Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. Popular fiddle tunes like Arkansas Traveler, Irish Washer Woman and Turkey in the Straw, and some of the world's most loved melodies like Amazing Grace, Ave Maria and Home of the Range appear. Christmas Carols Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, O Come All Ye Faithful, The First Noel and Deck the Halls, and Hanukah favorites My Dreydl and Hanukah are all included.

Each book in the series has its own piano accompaniment book to facilitate study and recital performance.

The ABCs of Duets Book has harmonies to many of the melodies in ABCs of Violin Book 1.

Author Janice Tucker Rhoda teaches Violin for the Absolute Beginner classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education in Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4882 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 51 pages

Yuri Mazurkevich, Professor of Violin, Boston University
"The best string method books I've seen! Teachers will excel using this method and students will love the music."

About the Author
Janice Tucker Rhoda, selected for Marquis Who's Who in America, has designed her path-breaking instruction series The ABCs of Strings to encourage students of all ages to play the Violin, Viola, Cello and Bass.

Ms. Rhoda is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts where her teacher was well-known violinist and pedagogue, Eric Rosenblith, protégé of Carl Flesch. She also studied with such luminaries as Nancy Cirillo, Rudolf Kolisch, Yuri Mazurkevich, George Neikrug, Daniel Pinkham, Gunther Schuller, Roman Totenberg and Benjamin Zander.

Ms. Rhoda, who has taught students to play the violin for over 25 years, was the director of the Suzuki Program at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts for several years and now teaches Violin for the Absolute Beginner classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education. She also gives Teacher Training classes worldwide.

Customer Reviews

Great book for a new violin player
I purchased this for my wife and she loves it. It is a nice violin starter guide with a great assortment of songs and instruction. I was very pleased with the incredibly fast shipping!!! Thanks! I'd highly recommend this item!!!
-Mel

Great for the absolute adult beginner!
I am 30 years old and never touched a violin in my life, but had always wanted to learn how to play. I ordered this book, along with her DVD, and have learned a lot! The ABCs of Violin for the Absolute Beginner - DVD The book teaches basic note reading, as well as warm ups and short songs. The DVD helps with knowing the parts of the violin, proper handling, and tuning. I recommend this book, but also some sort of video accompaniment. Youtube has a lot of free videos on violin basics, as well.

Violin Book
The book was for my wife. She seems to like it. I know nothing about violins, but the book seems good.