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Welcome to Violin Star

To the teacher: This series will inspire violinists to develop confidence and musical skills through a refreshing choice of pieces. The repertoire presents a logical and approachable progression from the very first stages of playing through to Grade 2.

Each piece is designed to develop a specific technique; as the series progresses, the pieces introduce the keys (and their related finger patterns) encountered at the early grades. There is a fun mix of musical styles, which include arrangements and original compositions.

For each of the three

Violin Star

levels, there is one Student's book and one Accompaniment book.

The Student's books contain the solo violin part, and an audio CD.The Accompaniment books have separate piano and violin accompaniments for every piece.The three different forms of accompaniment in

Violin Star

offer variety, flexibility and interaction for both pupil and teacher. Dotted around the Student's books you will find suggestions for supporting activities, which can be used in individual or group teaching and can form a base to develop your own ideas.

All 106 pieces in

Violin Star

were created during the course of my work as a peripatetic violin teacher.

Children are wonderful critics, and if they don't like the music they won't mince their words.The repertoire in

Violin Star

passed the test - in fact, it could not have been written without the students.

I hope you enjoy

Vio/in Star!

Edward Huws

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Book design,cover and text origination byKate Benjamin Illustrations by Mark Beech. represented by NB Illustration

Music origination by Andrew [ones Notation

CD recording credits: solo violin played by Alexandra Wood;

produced.by Ates Orga; balance engineering. editing and mixing by Ken Blair;

recorded rnMarch 2011 at Red Gables Studio, Greenford; a BMP Production for ABRSM

CDbacking tracks by john Maul. Frank Mizen and Chris Norton

Printed in England by Caligraving Ltd,Thetford. Norfolk

Published in 2011 by ABRSM (Publishing) Ltd, awholly owned subsidiary of ABRSM

f)2011 byTheAssociated Board of the Royal Schools of Music

eprinted in2011

978 186096 899 O 3380

rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval syst~. or transmitt~d in ~ny form or by any means, electronic, mechanical. photocopying.

recordíng, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. DONOT PHOTOCOPY

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First plucldng and bowing pieces

Big Ben Edward HuwsJones[EHJl(b.1948) 4

UttLe Ben EHJ 4

Musette J.S.Bach (1685-1750) 5

Ready, Steady, Bow! EHJ 5

Trick or Treat EHJ 6

Crotchets and mínims

FiddLe FaddLe Welsh

Open-String Boogie EHJ

SnowfLakes EHJ

The Hundred Pipers Scottish

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3/4 and dotted míntms

ViLanova Spanish

CircLes in the Air EHJ

Heading South Latin American

SiLent Night F.x.Gruber (1787-1863)

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Crotchets and quavers

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UncLejoe North American

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TroLLs,OrcsandCoblins Grieg(1843-1907) 12

First finger on D and A strings

First Finger Rag EHJ 13 Witches' CauLdron EHJ 13 Peeler's jig Irish 14

Tudor Pageant EHJ 14

Saraswati South Indian 15

Friday Evening Hungarian 15

First finger on G string

jitterbug EHJ

jewish Wedding Klezmer

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First finger on E string

Cow's Reei Scottish

On the River EHJ

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Paganini! Paganini (1782-1840) 18

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StrictLy Tango EHJ 19

London Eye EHJ 19

Maiden Fair 17th-century English 20 ALLSiLkand Satin EHJ 20

Second finger on G string

TooMuch Rosin! EHJ

Happy Hippo EHJ

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WiLliam TeLL Rossini (1792-1868) 25

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OLd- Timer North American 25 Greek Night Out Greek 26 Violin Star EHJ 26 House ofthe Rising Sun NorthAmerican 27 Spanish Steps EHJ 28

Third finger on G string

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Lady Meng jiang Chinese

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Thírd finger on E string

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The Collier's WaLtz Welsh

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