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Violin, Viola and Cello Resources

Learning a stringed instrument is about technique and musicality, but also exploring the historical context of the music when it was written.  Below you will find some resources we'd like to share. This list is by no means exhaustive, but just some of our favorites!

Violin, Viola and Cello Methods + Technique

Scales/
Scale Prep

  • ​Sevcik School of Violin Technics, Book 1

  • Schradieck School of Violin Techniques

  • Carl Flesch Scale Book (violin, viola, and cello)

  • Sevcik Preparatory Scales and Shifting, op. 8

Methods
(Technique)

  • Sevcik School of Violin Technics, violin and viola

  • Fundamentals of Violoncello Technique Volume 1

  • Fundamentals of Violoncello Technique Volume 2

  • Sevcik School of Bowing Technics

  • Introduction the Positions Volume 1, violin and viola

  • Introducing the Positions Volume 2, violin and viola

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Methods
(Repertoire)

  • Suzuki Volume 1, violin and viola

  • Suzuki Volume 2, violin and viola

  • Bach in the First Position, cello

  • Solos for Young Cellists, Volume 1

  • Solos for Young Violinists Volume 1

  • Solos for Young Violinists, Volume 2

Etudes/
Studies

  • Wohlfahrt 60 Studies, op. 45, violin and viola

  • 50 Selected Studies in the First Position, violin

  • 170 Foundation Studies Volume 1, cello

  • Kayser 36 Studies, op. 20, violin and viola

  • Lee 40 Melodic and Progressive Etudes op. 31, cello

  • Kreutzer 42 Etudes, violin and viola

  • Duport 21 Etudes, cello

  • Popper High School of Cello Playing

  • Rode 24 Caprices

  • Dont 24 Etudes and Caprices

  • Paganini 24 Caprices

Other Resources
 

Media Resources

Biographies/
Historical

  • Heifetz, As I Knew Him, Ayke Agus

  • Testimony, Solomon Volkov

  • Beethoven, Maynard Solomon

  • Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt

Theory/Other

  • Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks

  • Counterpoint, Walter Piston

  • Principals of Orchestration, Rimsky Korsakov

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Documentaries

  • The Art of the Violin

  • Mstislav Rostropovich, The Indominable Bow

  • Remembering Jaquelin du Pre

  • Jascha Heifetz, God's Fiddler

  • David Oistrahk, Artist of the People?

Technique

  • The Art of Violin Playing - Carl Flesch

  • A New Approach to Violin Playing - Kato Havas

  • Violin Playing As I Teach It - Leopold Auer

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