Sassmannshaus, E.: Early Start on the Violin Vol. 4

A violin method for children age four and older by Egon Sassmannshaus. With numerous children's songs.
English Edition with Spanish text supplements.

The Early Start on the Violin provides children with an age-appropriate and basic introduction. Learning to play the violin with fun and necessary endurance – this school provides the right framework. In the design and illustration clearly rejuvenated and substantially unchanged, this school is still the first recommendation for lasting enjoyment of the violin.

The Saßmannshaus schools impress with the finely tuned structure of the learning content and exercises. After the entrance with open strings and simple note values follows the "third" as a base interval. Within the first volume (914225) all the fingers are used with children's songs in the musical values from the whole up to eighth notes. Even simple exercises are lined with texts, so that the vocal aspect can be highlighted and the melodies can be perceived as a whole.

The second volume (914226) offers two-part classic pieces. Dotted notes, sixteenth and first double stops and high and low finger positions are introduced. This volume is pioneering in the introduction of shifting in already learned pieces.

Focus of the third volume (914227) is the duet play in different time signatures and keys. Known grip patterns and bowings are practiced and developed.

The fourth volume (914228) eventually expands the shifting, introduces new bowings and exercises them in increasingly sophisticated classic duets. Since time immemorial, these schools are a reliable guide for the teacher and provide diverse material for the students.

The authors

Egon Saßmannshaus has created the standard work for young strings with his school work »Early Start« ... for Violin, Viola and Cello. His years of experience as a violin teacher have been incorporated into the work. Also his five children have chosen the music as a life's mission.

His son Kurt Saßmannshaus has made a name as a violin teacher, chamber musician and conductor after studying in Cologne, in the US and in China. At the new edition of Saßmannshaus schools he was involved significantly with his siblings. He is with his father author of the English edition.

Publisher: Bärenreiter BA09679.

Contents:

• Preface
• Third Position
• Brush Strokes And Spiccato
• Major And Minor Scales
• Triple Stops (Three Voice Chords)
• The Climbing Game
• Harmonics
• Shifting
• Ornaments
• Martelé
• Staccato
• Second Position
• Pieces In Various Positions
• Scales On One String
• Two Octave Scales In All Keys
• Three Octave Scales And Arpeggios