Katrina Wreede, award winning composer, teacher, and violist (formerly with the Turtle Island String quartet), offers beginning violin students a collection of duets that progress from "Open Strings" to the "Hallelujah Chorus". You will enjoy wonderfully creative tunes, including "Spider Dance", "Pepperoni Pizza Piece", and "A Fiddle in Every Pot", as well as easy arrangements of well-known melodies, like "Ode to Joy-Beethoven" and "Simple Gifts". These duets are intended to be played by student and teacher. But, the Performance Assistant lets you "bring your teacher home".

This book, and software, is part of our Performance Assistant series. It is the only Performance Assistant for which we also offer the sheet music.

To order, use our Secure Order Form, look for "Performance Pieces for Two Violins" and check Part Number:

• 799601 for the Performance Assistant software ($15), or
• 799602 for the Performance Assistant and the sheet music ($25)

The complete Table of Contents is shown below. Click on the speaker icons to hear the samples.

1. Open Strings
2. First Finger
3. French Park Scene
4. Bavarian Drinking Song
5. Homage to Pachelbel
6. Ode to Joy-Beethoven
7. Rosaleah's Hi/Low Waltz
8. Spider Dance
9. Medieval Chant
10. Pepperoni Pizza Piece
11. Swiftly with Slurs, Scales and Staccato
12. Trills for Betsy
13. Hooked Bow Hocket
14. Gypsy Lament
15. Hank's Red Dog Blues
16. Simple Gifts
17. Chromatic Jig
18. "Retake" Two-step
19. Moto Perpetuo
20. Interlude Noire
21. Tango para Dos Violines
22. A Fiddle in Every Pot
23. Chromatic Tarantella
24. Hallelujah Chorus-Handel

For more information, contact:

Copyright © 2003, The Virtual Virtuoso
Last modified on: 21-Jul-2003.