First Festival Solos
20 Easy Solos for Violin with Piano Accompaniments
By Larry Clark and Sean O'Loughlin

Carl Fischer Music
BF68 - $12.99

Carl Fischer presents a new collection of solo pieces with piano accompaniments for use at festival adjudicated events or in recitals. Solos range in difficulty from grade 1 to 2 and are progressively arranged, featuring a wide variety of musical styles from original compositions to beautiful arrangements of folk songs and classical pieces. Includes a CD of full-version recordings for the student to use as an example, as well as piano-only recordings to use in practice. The CD also contains piano accompaniments as printable PDF files. (Also available for flute, clarinet, alto sax, trumpet, or trombone.)

Carl Fischer Music
O2466X - Score and DVD - $16.99

The second volume of Wohlfahrt’s quintessential violin method has been given expert treatment with updates and edits by world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine. It contains modernized fingerings, bowings and dynamics by Pine, all newly engraved for this edition. At the same time it remains faithful to the original, maintaining the same pedagogical sequence as Aiqouni’s classic edition. This edition also includes a DVD of Rachel Barton Pine playing all 42 etudes with two camera views so students can choose to see either the bow or the left hand technique. The disc also contains MP3 audio tracks. For intermediate to advanced players.

Also available:
Foundation Studies, Volume 1
O2465X - Score and DVD - $16.95

The Spanish Album represents classical music’s resurgence in Spain in the mid-nineteenth century, and the nationalistic emphasis of the Romantic era certainly provided fertile ground for the use of the unique sounds of the Iberian Peninsula. In the realm of violin music, Pablo de Sarasate’s compositions revealed Romantic Spain to much of the world and were inspirations for many other composers’ violin works in the same vein. Eric Wen has compiled a great representative survey of this musical period, and his foreword provides a lively and informative background for the pieces and composers in this book. Includes Camille Saint-Saëns’ Havanaise en mi majeur, Pablo de Sarasate’s Malagueña, José Aviles’ La Media noche, and 14 others.

Carl Fischer Music
BF74 - Score and Part - $39.99
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Carl Fischer’s Repertoire Classics series consists of comprehensive and progressively graded collections of classic solos with piano accompaniment. Each book contains a fine mix of transcriptions of familiar classics along with solos written specifically for the instrument. Many of the pieces in these collections appear on state contest/festival required music lists. The pieces featured cover the performance levels of grade 2 through 5, representing all style periods, and include works by some of the greatest composers of all time.

As an added bonus, the included data CD contains MP3 audio files of the piano accompaniments to make practicing more fun. It also contains piano accompaniment parts for all pieces in the collection in PDF format. Our innovative and unique packaging allows Carl Fischer Music to provide you with large and useful collections of solo literature at affordable prices, and players will find them useful for years to come.

Examples of works in this volume include: Kreisler’s Rondino on a Theme by Beethoven, Haydn’s Minuet in D Major, Debussy’s Beau Soir, and many more.

The most direct way to describe the essence of the concept and benefits of these exercises for the aspiring violinist is to simply quote one of its students, as well as the creator himself. From Rachel Barton Pine: “Vamos’s double-stop exercises fill a void in the literature of technical exercises for violinists and violists. Today there are many classic books with thirds, sixths, octaves, etc., by such composers as Schradieck, Ševĉik, Flesch, and Dounis. However, none of these wonderful collections features a systematic series of fixed double-stops that enables the aspiring violinist or violist to practice and master every possible combination of finger patterns across two strings without shifting.”

Dr. Roland Vamos also outlines the purpose of this method: “So what exactly do I hope the student that carefully studies these exercises will accomplish? Perhaps the most important accomplishment is the development of a strong left hand that is set up so that the fingers rise and drop consistently landing on the same part of the finger. The first joint of each will hopefully develop strength and flexibility while the thumb gently supports the side of the neck without tension. These exercises, when practiced slowly and carefully, should also help to develop a keen sense of pitch and intonation.” For intermediate players.

Foundation Studies for the Violin, Volume 1 -
60 First Position Studies (from Opp. 45, 54, 74)
Book w/DVD
By Franz Wohlfahrt
Edited and Revised by Rachel Barton Pine
Violin

Carl Fischer Music
O2465X — Book and DVD — $16.95
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The quintessential violin method just got even better with a new edition expertly updated and edited by world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine. It contains modernized fingerings, bowings and dynamics by Pine, all newly engraved for this edition. At the same time it remains faithful to the original, maintaining the same pedagogical sequence as Aiqouni’s classic edition. This edition also includes a DVD of Rachel Barton Pine playing all 60 etudes, with two camera views so students can choose to see either the bow or the left hand technique. For beginning to intermediate players.

Carl Fischer Music
ABC19X - Book & CD - $14.99

The fourth volume of Janice Tucker Rhoda's ABCs of Violin method addresses second position playing with melodies, warm-up exercises, study pieces, scales and arpeggios. It also includes graphs to show new left-hand finger placement, a note-reading worksheet and practice chart. Learn to play harmonics and pizzicato a chord along with intensive work shifting through first, second and third positions. This edition also includes a CD containing MP3 performance tracks with piano accompaniment, piano accompaniment only, and printable PDF file of all piano accompaniments.

The third volume of Janice Tucker Rhoda’s ABCs of Violin method addresses third position playing with melodies, warm-up exercises, study pieces, scales and arpeggios. It also includes graphs to show new left-hand finger placement, a note-reading worksheet and practice chart. Spiccato bowing technique, trills and double stops are also introduced in this book. This edition also includes a CD containing MP3 performance tracks with piano accompaniment, piano accompaniment only, and printable PDFs file of all piano accompaniments.

Carl Fischer Music
BF59 - $24.95
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Austrian-born violin pedagogue Eric Rosenblith shares his thoughts and musings on his craft and career in “Ah, You Play the Violin…: Thoughts Along the Path to Musical Artistry. This book reveals that there are many thoughts and ideas – aside from those learned during one’s early period of study – which can be helpful in the pursuit of one’s technical, musical and artistic goals. These helpful ideas can be extremely diverse, and the many choices which an aspiring musician/artists needs to make should ideally be intimately connected with his or her own individual personality, temperament and physique. This approach will produce a broad outlook at multiple benefits for one’s professional and artistic future. A foreword by musician, author and historian Gunther Schuller is included.

Carl Fischer Music
BF31 • $19.95

I Used to Play is a new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its no. 1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classic tunes, rather than etudes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities. It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again!

See also I Used to Play Cello

Carl Fischer Music
BF54 - $29.95

World-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine compiled a collection of 19 pieces, mainly for unaccompanied violin, ranging from her original compositions and cadenzas to new arrangements of existing violin staples. Pine was inspired to create it when she was asked to write a cadenza for Meude-Monpas’ Concerto No. 1 in D Major, a rediscovered concerto that had not been played since the composer’s lifetime in the eighteenth century. Highlights include an original cadenza for Paganini’s Violin Concerto No. 2 in B Minor, a new arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner, and many others. The book also contains a lengthy introduction discussing her love of composition and arrangements. Fans and budding virtuosos alike will delight in this unique and personal collection.

Carl Fischer Music
ABC29 • $29.95

Janice Tucker Rhoda’s best-selling ABCs of Violin Book 1 and ABCs of Violin Book 2 have been combined and packaged with The ABCs of Violin for the Beginner DVD and The ABCs of Violin for the Intermediate Player DVD. The result is The ABCs of Violin: Anthology Edition, a complete course of exercises, solos and DVD lessons for the progressing student violinist at a great value. For beginner to intermediate players.

Woodland Music Press
A05I229 • $16.95

Julliard-trained pianist, composer, arranger, vocal coach, and educator Jacqueline Hairston presents a soulful gift to violinists with this collection of spirituals arranged specially for the instrument. While notated in classical style, Hairston encourages improvisation and bending of notes, with a flexible piano accompaniment. Some familiar songs included are: “Swing Low,” “Wade in the Water,” and “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See, Lord.” For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
ABC3CD • $15.95

This beautifully recorded CD for violin solo and piano accompaniment includes all of the pieces in Janice Tucker Rhoda’s ABCs of Violin for the Intermediate Player – Book 2 (ABC3), from the best-selling ABCs of Strings series. It is to be used in conjunction with this book and The ABCs of Violin Intermediate DVD (DVD22) and will facilitate home practice, allowing students of all ages to prepare for recitals and have fun playing along with the music! For intermediate players.

Carl Fischer Music
BF48 • $19.95

Carl Fischer Music presents the first U.S. edition of violin pedagogue Venjamin Sher’s Twenty-four Virtuoso Etudes. Previously available only in Russia, Venjamin Sher’s violin etudes, written between 1954 and 1959, are acclaimed and required literature for all violinists in the former Soviet Union. First published by the Compozitor Publishing House of St. Petersburg, Sher’s etudes reflect a lifetime of experience as a performer and teacher. This collection sets itself apart from other instructional compilations in that it incorporates new forms and textures discovered by the composer, and while practicality is its focus, artistic value is never compromised, drawing from the example of etude collections by Nicolo Paganini and Henryk Wieniawski. This beautiful new edition is edited by esteemed professor of violin Klimenty Veksler, who also lends valuable insight with a foreword. Students and professional violinists alike will find Sher’s Twenty-four Virtuoso Etudes greatly useful in honing both technique and expression.

Carl Fischer Music
BF20 • $29.95

Newly engraved and freshly typeset, this is a long-awaited enhanced re-release of The Art of Violin Playing: Book 2. Newly and expertly translated by Eric Rosenblith, a former student of Carl Flesch, it deals with practically everything of concern to the violinist, and is the most comprehensive and thorough treatise available for violin. This edition will maintain its longevity as a trailblazing magnum opus.

Carl Fischer Music
B3438 • $18.95

Viotti’s Concerto No. 22 in A minor was a great performance favorite of violin pedagogue Fritz Kreisler, both with orchestra and piano reduction. This new edition contains Kreisler’s original piano reduction and cadenzas, which serve not only as accompaniment but enhance the piece by adding new melodic lines and counterpoint. Along with his bowings and fingerings, Kreisler’s edition of the Concerto No. 22 will restore it to its rightful place as a true masterpiece for violin performance. For advanced players.

Josephine, the Singer
By Martin Bresnick
Solo Violin

Carl Fischer Music
B3449 - $12.99
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Josephine (the Singer) takes its title from Franz Kafka’s last published story, Josephine the Singer or the Mouse People. This valedictory tale was Kafka’s prescient meditation both on musical divas and on what he considered might be the future of the Jews as a persecuted minority in Europe in the twentieth century. Bresnick’s composition is an extended passacaglia on a subject derived from Bresnick’s earlier work, Songs of the Mouse People. This subject itself is found to be consistent with the narrow intervals employed in most mouse melodies. Josephine (the Singer) was commissioned by the International Max Rostal competition in Berlin as the required solo composition for violin. For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
B3439 • $14.95

Poem is an expressive piece for violin and piano, written by Yevhen Stankovych, a world-renowned composer from the Ukraine. Commissioned in 2005 for performance by the semi-finalists of the 2008 Benjamin Britten International Violin Competition in London, Poem utilizes the lyrical qualities of the violin and features an equally powerful yet unimposing piano accompaniment. It is also available by rental in an arrangement for violin and orchestra.

Carl Fischer Music
B3440 • $12.95

An exquisite piece for two violins by Igor Shcherbakov (b. 1955), one of the most distinguished figures among a gifted generation of modern Ukranian composers in the late-twentieth and twenty-first centuries, who is known for his unique ability to infuse his works with spiritual and humanistic undertones.

I Used to Play Viola
An Innovative Method for Adults Returning to Play
By Doris Gazda and Larry Clark

Carl Fischer Music
BF82 – Book & CD – $19.99
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I Used to Play is a popular new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its number one goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classic tunes, rather than etudes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities.

It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again! See the complete series here.

Carl Fischer Music
B3441 • $9.95

Magic Fairy Tale is a delightful piece for viola and piano by renowned Ukranian composer Igor Shcherbakov, a well-known Ukrainian musical and public figure, teacher, professor of the National Academy of Music, and president of the Kiev Composers Union.

The second volume of Janice Tucker Rhoda’s ABCs of Cello method focuses on learning second position with melodies, warm-up exercises, study pieces, scales and arpeggios. It also includes graphs to show new left-hand finger placement, a note-reading worksheet and practice chart. As a direct continuation of the ABCs of Cello for the Absolute Beginner, Book 1, students will learn additional slurred bowing techniques and rhythms, as well as new key and time signatures. This edition also includes a CD containing MP3 performance tracks with piano accompaniment, piano accompaniment only, and printable PDFs file of all piano accompaniments.

BF66 • Cello • $19.95
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I Used to Play is a new series for adults looking to get back into playing their instruments of yesteryear, and will help jumpstart their memory and comfort with music. Its #1 goal is to get people re-acquainted with their instrument(s) by not only reviewing theory and technique with etudes, but also providing them with types of music they want to play, like pop, jazz, and classical tunes. Each book contains a CD with audio MP3 files of complete performances of most songs, plus accompaniment-only play-along versions. The CD also contains printable PDFs of piano parts for practice or performance opportunities. It’s just the push former players need to fall back in love with their instruments again!

See also I Used to Play Violin

Carl Fischer Music
BF60 - $21.95
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This collection is dedicated to the legacy of Pablo Casals and comprises ten pieces that he often performed throughout his extensive career. His great love of Bach is reflected by his arrangements of the Adagio from the Toccata in C Major for organ, and the Chorale Prelude from Jesu, meine Freude. The great Catalan-Spanish tradition from which he came speaks out in the Intermezzo from Granados’ opera Goyescas and Casals’ own Cant dell Ocells (Song of the Birds). Two other pieces in this collection, Mazurka in G minor and Vito, were composed by David Popper, who is remembered today as the leader of the Hungarian school of cello playing. Casals often played many of these virtuoso pieces for the cello as encores on his programs. The ten pieces in this collection contain updated fingerings and bowings, and the book also features rarely-seen photos of Casals himself. For intermediate to advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
BF47 • $21.95

Many of the titles in this classic cello solo collection, all written by renowned cello pedagogue William Henry Squire, appear on concert and festival lists throughout the United States. Also featured in this collection are Squire compositions that were previously out of print. A CD of piano accompaniments is included, allowing cellists to practice the pieces with greater ease and effectiveness.

Carl Fischer Music
B3445 – Score and Part - $19.99
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Bresnick’s melancholy solo for cello with piano was inspired by the poem “Gods Come and Go, Prayers Remain Forever,” by the great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai. In the words of the composer: “Although Amichai surely meant to calm and console us by the gentle wisdom and beauty of his words, I now also hear a strain of existential reproach. In my work, Prayers Remain Forever, I join my prayer to his.” For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
B3442 – Score and Solo Part - $11.95

From the celebrated American composer David Carlson, Carl Fischer Music publishes an introspective, graceful Vocalise for cello with piano accompaniment. For advanced players. Also available for flute and piano (W2644).

Flux
By Jason Eckardt
Alto Flute and Violoncello

Carl Fischer Music
MXE28F - Score - $23.95  
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The composer's website offers a good deal of information about his works. From program notes ("As the title suggests, Flux is in a perpetual state of transformation. Although there are passing moments of relative stability, the music never finds lasting repose.") to audio samples, Flux is revealed as an homage to Elliott Carter, using the full range and textures of the instruments. For advanced performers. Dur.: 6'

Carl Fischer Music
MXE36 – Score and Parts - $24.99
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Martin Bresnick began playing the oboe at the age of eleven and performed seriously throughout graduate school, and was delighted to be invited to write an oboe quartet for the group Double Entendre. It became an unexpected journey into his family’s past. From the composer: “Delighted to receive a commission to write an oboe quartet for Double Entendre, I was pleased at the thought I would find myself ‘Going Home’ (with a glancing reference to the great English horn melody of Dvorák); I intended to take a gentle musical journey back to my youthful studies and beloved instrument. Instead, without willing it, I was taken back to childhood memories of my mother and my grandparents; to their songs and stories of ‘Vysoke Litovsk,’ the small Russian-Polish (now Belarussian) town where they and my ancestors had lived for many generations. I was taken back to memories of my own visit to Vysoke in 1995. Just as my mother and grandparents remembered, I found the dense birch and pine forests, the small railway station and the Potocki estate. The Catholic Church, just being restored, stood not far from the brilliant blue and gold-onion domes of the Orthodox Church. And, as they remembered, the Pulwa river (a tributary of the Bug river) ran beside the lunke or meadow. Goats and horses were grazing there, tethered to the green grass. The ruined synagogue, at the edge of the meadow, was just a short distance down an unpaved dirt road that led to a small wooden house, once the home of my family.” For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
MXE19 – Set of Parts - $24.95

"For the better part of three months I fought an exasperating battle. While trying to compose a piece for clarinet, cello, and piano, a plethora of distractions had consumed my mind. This frustration seemed to amplify with the amount of time that passed. It was then that the following quotation came to my attention: ‘Life does not consist mainly, or even largely of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one’s head.’ —Mark Twain. And so The Muse of Distraction was born. Rather than trying to fight the 'storm of thoughts,' I allowed myself to compose a piece that embraced the frustration and irritation of those previous three months. Eventually these distractions were no longer my adversary. They became my muse.”

For advanced players.

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score - CY1387F - $46.00   
Set of Parts – CY1387M - $98.00   

This unique work was written specifically for violinmaker Carleen Maley Hutchins’ Violin Octet, a modern consort of eight finely-matched violins ranging in size from an 11″ violin to a seven foot contrabass, extending tonally across the range of written music and consisting of a treble, soprano, mezzo, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, and contrabass violins. Henry Brant was an early proponent of her groundbreaking creations and wrote this piece in 1965, causing a sensation when it was premiered in New York.

Carl Fischer Music
Set of Parts and Instructions - CY1465 - $18.75   

Written for the Viola d’amore, a viol-type instrument from the baroque period, this piece was inspired by Margaret Stark’s sculpture “Bird with Passenger,” and is meant to be accompanied by the sound of music boxes and optional pipe organ.

Carl Fischer Music Custom Print
CY3181F - Score - $21.95   
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An early work completed in 1968, String Quartet No. 1 is comprised of four diverse movements. For advanced performers.

Wir Weben
By Martin Bresnick
String Sextet (3-1-1-1)

Carl Fischer Music
CY2748 - Score and Parts - $81.75     CY2748F - Score - $45.95  
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Bresnick's string sextet was recorded in 1985 by Musical Elements, under the direction of Daniel Asia, and can be found on the New World CD Martin Bresnick: Music for Strings. The liner notes give a wonderful insight into the composer and the work, inspired by a Heinrich Heine about striking German textile workers in 1844. "The musicians’ repeated melodic and contrapuntal patterns imagines the work of the weavers—an audible realization of the terrible beauty of repetitive labor." For advanced performers.

Carl Fischer Music
FE228 • Score and Parts • $182.25   
Part 1 also available on custom print (FE227)

Carl Fischer Music
FE233 • Score and Parts • $116.00   

Carl Fischer Music
Score and Parts - CY2317 - $75.75   
Piano Score – CY2317F - $31.00   
Set of Parts - CY2317P - $52.75   

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score - MXE22F • $39.75   
Set of Parts - MXE22M • $55.00   

Carl Fischer Music
CY2073M • $49.95   
Full score also available for order (Carl Fischer Music - PCB130)

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score – CY3420F - $35.95   
Set of Parts – CY3420M - $53.00   

Commissioned by the Da Capo Chamber Players, Paul Lansky’s quirky, accidental-ridden Odd Moments is now available on custom print.

Carl Fischer Music Custom Print
O4996 - Performance Set - $50.99   
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The piano trio was written in Vienna, Austria in 1956-7. The four-movement work was premiered in March, 1960, by the Tressel-Claudio-Bogas Trio in San Francisco. The slow movement was composed at the time of the Hungarian uprising and is dedicated to the refugees, while the final movement consists of a theme and several variations. “ . . . vital and alive, with wonderful and complicated rhythms and considerable melodic beauty. It was obviously very interesting to play, and the enthusiasm of the performers (American Arts Trio) communicated through the performance.” — Kent County News, West Virginia. For advanced performers. Dur.: 25'

Carl Fischer Music
Full Score - SC17 - $27.00   

Carl Fischer Music
Set of Parts - MXE20M • $51.00   
Full Score, Sound Diffusionist, Engineer - MXE20F • $71.00   

16’s title refers to the sixteen words that the composer felt should have been excised from George Bush's January 2003 State of the Union address: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." Eckardt wrote this piece as a response, concerning his “faith in art's ability to contribute to -- if not transform -- society.”

16 was commissioned by the Auros Group for New Music with support from the Brannen-Cooper Fund and is dedicated to Susan Gall.

Carl Fischer Music
Set of Parts - BE6M - $171.75    —  Full Score - BE6F - $46.75  
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"The Lydian String Quartet tearing into the opening notes ... as if it had insulted their mother." So begins Hyla's 4th String Quartet, which devolves in time: "after a couple of minutes the language starts to become clear and we can see where we're coming from, if not where we're being taken." (Galen H. Brown, sequenza21.com) The Lydian Quartet's recording appears on the Tzadik album, Lee Hyla: Wilson's Ivory-bill. A YouTube video is also available, as performed by Spektral Quartet.

Carl Fischer Music
O3408M • $32.50   

Previously available on rental, Carl Fischer Music has made the string quartet parts for Arthur Honegger’s Trois Fragments available on custom print. Trois Fragments was originally published in 1923 and consists of extracts from Les Pàques à New York by Blaise Cendrars.

Carl Fischer Music
Three Performance Scores – CY2306 - $125.25   

Meant to be performed with the text from the original A.A. Milne story, Jon Deak’s new ensemble work is an innocent, yet tongue-in-cheek composition framing Eeyore Has a Birthday.

Ron Harris Publications
RHH0203 • $8.95

This popular choral anthem and instrumental solo has been meticulously arranged for lever harp. In This Very Room is perfect as a wedding song or devotional piece and this Barbara Fackler arrangement is sure to please the advanced harpist.