Duets for Violins

by Shinichi Suzuki

This book contains the second violin part and some third violin parts written by Dr. Suzuki to selected pieces from Suzuki Violin School, Volumes 1, 2, and 3. When a student starts playing advanced pieces he may learn the second part. Contents Lightly Row (Folk Song) * Song of the Wind (Folk Song) * Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song) * O Come, Little Children (Folk Song) * May Song (Folk Song) * Long, Long Ago (Bayly) * Allegro (Suzuki) * Perpetual Motion (Suzuki) * Allegretto (Suzuki) * Andantino (Suzuki) * Etude (Suzuki) * Minuet No. 1, Minuet III from Suite in G Minor for Klavier, BWV 822 (Bach) * Minuet No. 2, Minuet, BWV Anh. II 116 from Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach (Bach) * Chorus from Judas Maccabaeus (Handel) * Mussette, Gavotte II or the Musette from English Suite III in G Minor for Klavier, BWV 808 (Bach) * Bourrée from Sonata in F Major for Oboe, HHA IV/18, No. 8 (Handel) * Gavotte (Martini) * Minuet, BWV Anh. II 114/Anh. III 183/Anh. (Bach) * Minuet in G, Wo0 10, No. 2 (Beethoven). This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.

The International editions include an updated title page that designates the book as the International Edition.

Genres: Music

16 pages, Paperback

First published November 16, 1995

About the author

Shinichi Suzuki (鈴木 鎮一 Suzuki Shin'ichi, 17 October 1898 – 26 January 1998) was the inventor of the international Suzuki method of music education.

He developed a philosophy for educating people of all ages and abilities & is considered an influential pedagogue in music education of children.
Suzuki often spoke of the ability of all children to learn things well, especially in the right environment, and of developing the heart and building the character of music students through their music education.

Before his time, it was rare for children to be formally taught classical instruments from an early age and even more rare for children to be accepted by a music teacher without an audition or entrance examination. Not only did he endeavor to teach children the violin from early childhood and then infancy, his school in Matsumoto did not screen applicants for their ability upon entrance.

Suzuki was also responsible for the early training of some of the earliest Japanese violinists to be successfully appointed to prominent western classical music organizations.
During his lifetime, he received several honorary doctorates in music including from the New England Conservatory of Music (1956), and the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, was proclaimed a Living National Treasure of Japan, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize.

Source: Wikipedia.