Chapter 8 -- Instrumental Programs

String Pedagogy

Paul Rolland

Paul Rolland Collection of string music materials can be found at http://www.library.uiuc.edu/mux/specialcollections/rolland.htm. Pedagogy materials based on the Rolland approach include the following:

• Paul Rolland/Sheila Johnson, Young Strings in Action, published by Boosey and Hawkes;
• Paul Rolland, Action Studies, published by Boosey and Hawkes;
• Rolland and Fletcher, First Perpetual Motion, published by Boosey and Hawkes; and
• Fletcher, Rolland, Rowell, and Krolick, New Tunes for Strings, published by Boosey and Hawkes.

George Bornoff

Pedagogy materials based on the Bornoff approach are as follows:

• Bornoff's Finger Patterns for Violin, published by Carl Fischer (1948),
• Bornoff's Fun for Fiddle Fingers,
• Bornoff's Techno-melodic Studies,
• Bornoff's Patterns in Position,
• Bornoff's Fiddler's Holiday,
• Bornoff's Tonal Patterns in Melody,
• Bornoff's Pure Technique,
• Bornoff's Viva La Viola,
• Bornoff's Cello Enchanté, and
• Charles Budesheim's Adventures in Strings, edited by George Bornoff.

Most of these materials are available through the Foundation for the Advancement of String Education (FASE), a non-profit educational organization promoting Bornoff's approach and materials.

Kato Havas

The following are pedagogy materials based on The New Approach:

• Havas, A New Approach to Violin Playing, published by Bosworth and Co., distributed by Shawnee Press, Inc.
• Havas, The Twelve Lesson Course, published by Bosworth and Co., distributed by Shawnee Press, Inc.
• Havas, Stage Fright: Its Causes and Cures, published by Bosworth and Co., distributed by Shawnee Press, Inc.
• Chet Porcino, Flying Fiddles, available through Bosworth and Co.
• Gloria Bakhshayesh, Dancing Bows, available through Bosworth and Co.
• Gloria Bakhshayesh, Ringing Strings, available through Bosworth and Co.
• Ian Bewley, A Cellist's Inner Voice, available through Bosworth and Co.
• Claude Kenneson, A Cellist's Guide to the New Approach, published by Amadeus Press.
• Juhani Heikkila, Violin Playing -- Poetry or Pain, published by Musikkipedagoginen.
• The Kato Havas Teaching Video, distributed by Timberwood Industries.

Colourstrings

The following publications are pedagogy materials based on the Colourstring method:

• Géza Szilvay, Colourstrings Violin ABD by Books A, B, C, and D, published by Colourstrings International, available through Fennica Gehrman; and
• Lázló Rossa, arr. Colourstrings Violin Duos I-III, published by Colourstrings International, available through Fennica Gehrman.

Shinichi Suzuki

http://www.sharmusic.com/SuzukiMethod.asp

Fiddling

A few resources include

• Mel Bay, Complete Fiddling Book;
• Mel Bay, Kidfiddle;
• Carol Ann Wheeler, Children's Fiddling Method, Volume 1; and
• Carol Ann Wheeler, Fiddle Club, Volume 1