Starters Teacher's Handbook: Notes and accompaniments for ^IFiddle^R, ^IViola^R, and ^ICello Time Starters^R (All String Time)

Blackwell, Kathy; Blackwell, David

ISBN 10: 0193365855 ISBN 13: 9780193365858

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2012

Synopsis

The Starters Teacher's Handbook is the perfect resource for all teachers using Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time Starters. Brimming over with creative ideas, it contains imaginative accompaniments for all tunes in the pupil books, extra pieces and warm-ups, photocopiable resources, and a fantastic CD for use with all three instruments. With clear presentation and careful pacing, this book will be welcomed by anyone looking for a helping hand with the important early stages of learning an instrument.

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About the Author

Kathy Blackwell, B. Mus. (Hons.), LTCL, LGSM, studied music at Edinburgh University and continued with post-graduate studies in music at the University of Oxford. Kathy is a string teacher with many years experience of teaching violin and viola. She developed her teaching ideas at the coalface in both Music Services and in private practice, working with groups large and small and in one-to-one lessons. She was a strings consultant for the ABRSM Music Medals initiative, a new assessment specifically designed for students taught in groups, and a contributor to the accompanying book All together! Teaching Music in Groups (ABRSM, 2004). Her teaching experience has led her to co-author Fiddle, Viola, and Cello Time, published by Oxford University Press, with her husband, David. Kathy and David have presented workshops in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

David Blackwell studied music at Edinburgh University, after which he pursued a career in music publishing, first at ABRSM and then at Oxford University Press. He is co-editor of OUP's In the Mood: 17 Jazz Classics for Choirs and Carols for Choirs 5, and has published a number of single choral arrangements. He is co-writer with his wife Kathy of OUP's award-winning string series, Fiddle, Viola, Cello Time, and String Time, which have twice won the MIA award for Best Educational Publication. He now works as a freelance music editor, composer and arranger.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0193365855
• ISBN 13: 9780193365858
• Binding: Sheet music
• Number of pages: 88