Edited by Pejtsik, this collection is wonderful for students looking for music that stays within first position but offers a variety of rhythms. This book does not have any suggested fingerings which (with any luck) they don’t need! Playing “by number” isn’t a habit one wants to get into, so this is a book that challenges you in a familiar range of notes.
Kodaly originally conceived this as a third movement to Sonata 4. But over time his style of writing changed and did not fit with his 1909 mood, thus it was published as an independent piece. Edited by Ginsberg.
This collection includes 43 short pieces, none of which have more than 3 sharps or 3 flats. The range of notes includes through 4th position to the harmonic. Time signatures and tempi vary, there are chords and doublestops, some ornamentation … It is what I call “lateral music” when you feel fluent in a range of notes but approach them differently in each work. People who play a method book (Suzuki) are surprised to see how many works they can’t play easily though they’d learned to play well the pieces in a given volume. This is not what many people would consider beginner material. Helpful fingerings are provided in this volume.
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