All Books articles – Page 6
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Book review: Rethinking Social Action Through Music: The Search for Coexistence and Citizenship in Medellín’s Music Schools
Jonathan Govias reviews a book by Geoffrey Baker examining the concept - and feasiblity - of ’social action through music’
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Book review: A Life in Music: Memories of 80 years with the violin
Julian Haylock reviews the autobiography of violinist and Royal Academy of Music pedagogue György Pauk
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Book review: Notes for Violists: A Guide to the Repertoire
Carlos Maria Solare reviews David M. Bynog’s latest book, the latest in the Notes for Performers series
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Book review: Feine und bedeutende Streichinstrumente
Benjamin Hebbert reviews an anthology of instruments by German violin dealer Rudolf Eckstein, witht text in German and English
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Book review: Sight Reading Strings: A progressive method
Alex Laing reviews a new sightreading method catering for all string players - violin, viola, cello and double bass
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Book review: Lev’s Violin
Helen Michetschläger reviews Helena Attlee’s book about lutherie in Cremona, through the eyes of a non-luthier
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Book review: Monograph of the Antonio Stradivari Cello c.1690 ‘Barjansky’
Florian Leonhard reviews an extensive study of the famous cello, including dendrochronology, CT scans and posters
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Book review: The Complete Special Edition of Bach’s Fugues for Solo Violin: Vol.1
Robin Stowell reviews the first two volumes in Biobach Music’s details edition of Bach’s fugues
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Book review: The King of Violins: The Extraordinary Life of Ma Sicong, China’s Greatest Violin Virtuoso
Tully Potter reviews a biography of a renowned violinist who fell foul of Maoist China
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Book review: My Violin Needs Help!: A repair diagnostics guide for players and teachers
Celia Cobb reviews a manual that explains the basics of violin maintenance to the layperson
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Book review: The Hardanger Riddle
Julian Haylock reviews the third novel in Paul Adam’s Cremona Mysteries series
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Live-streamed concert review: Xavier Foley (double bass) Kelly Yu-Chieh Lin (piano)
Leah Hollingsworth tunes in to the Shriver Hall Concert Series (Discovery Series) on 6 March 2021
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Book review: Fractal Fingering: A scaleable concept of finger geometry for the double bass
Caroline Emery reviews David Allen Moore’s innovative method for learning the double bass
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Book review: The Baroque Violin & Viola: A Fifty-Lesson Course
Simon Standage reviews Walter S. Reiter’s two-volume work on learning to play the period instruments
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Book review: Complete Method for the Double Bass/String Quartet op. 2 (Giovanni Bottesini)
Leon Bosch reviews the first two publications in a project to create urtexts of all the Italian composer’s works
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Book review: The Piedmontese Violin Makers in the 17th and 18th Centuries
Alberto Giordano reviews Claudio Amighetti’s magnum opus on the luthiers of north-west Italy
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Singende Saiten: Die schönsten Solostücke für Violine oder Bratsche
Celia Cobb examines an unusual method for practising with different clefs and key signatures
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Book review: The Viola d’Amore: Its History and Development
Carlos Maria Solare examines Rachael Durkin’s scholarly work about the early stringed instrument
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Book review: Once Upon a String: Fiddle Method - Vol.1
Alex Laing reviews the first volume of Shamma Sabir’s innovative fiddle playing method