29 essential orchestral cello part excerpts for auditions with unique color-coding that shows suggested fingerings, bowings, and commentary. The excerpts have copious stylistic pointers throughout each excerpt.
A suite for solo cello includes 8 short movements: Intrada, Cantabile, Minuetto I and II, Siciliano, Pizzicato, Toccatina, and Finale Giocoso. Movements are of uneven difficulty, some staying in first position while others require fluence through 4th. Another good grow-witih-me selection.
For solo cello, theme with five variations and coda. Theme stays within first position note range, with fingered double stops. Two variations include a 4th position G, three variations include double stops. It’s manageable with room to grow!
Requires fluency through 4th position, and includes chords, some trickier rhythmic issues (triplets is only the beginning). Prelude, Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Bouree I and II, Gigue
Solo cello. The Train Whistle, Truckin’ Through the South, Broadway, Laid-back Devil, Sailing Down the River, The Flag Waver, An American in France, Like Crazy, The Crack of Dawn, October Waltz
This cello suited was commissioned for Jeffrey Zeigler. Al-Sham is the Arabic nickname for Damascus, and the first movement “Barada” takes its name from the river that flows through it. The second movement “May 25th” captures the grief and disgust of the massacre that day at Houla The third movement “Naaman’s Song” represents a cleansing and recovery in the river. The final movement “Shora” is a vigorous dance celebrating the vitality and strength of the Syrian people and the ability of the human spirit to recover after suffering unspeakable loss. (Excerpted from the composer’s notes)
This piece is named after Nigerian scholar, ethnomusicologist and composer Dr. Akin Euba, and dedicated to Matt Haimovitz and his wife/composer Luna Pearl Woolf.
Duration ~ 6 minutes. American composer Nkeiru Okoye’s was inspired by Bach’s contrapuntal works for solo violin, when she composed this work . Described as both thrilling and declamatory, building into a powerful statement of the spiritual tune. “Let Us Break Bread Together.”
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