Blue Piece for violin and piano is a musical poem which honors the American down-home, twelve-bar blues. Its relaxed, laid-back melodic line meanders about chord tones, dwelling on the "blue third"

A lyrical violin solo excerpted from the composer's violin concerto.

Available for violin and viola, this method facilitates the intermediate student's progress from introductory studies to the comprehensive systematic approaches of Ivan Galamian and Carl Flesch. In addition

For the virtuoso soloist, the Tchaikovsky Violin Album contains three excerpts from Swan Lake: Pas de Deux (Black Swan), Scene (White Swan), and

A virtuosic tour de force for soloist and orchestra cast in four large movements. The opening movement, an extended violin cadenza/cantilena supported by imaginatively varied orchestra commentary, emerges