Superduets Book 1 by Mary Cohen

Superduets Book 1 by Mary Cohen

Superduets Book 1 provides a wonderful new repertoire of original and entertaining duets for beginner violinists. It can be started as soon as pupils have mastered basic playing technique. Encouraging rhythmic confidence and listening skills, and exploring a wide range of techniques, sound effects and movements, Mary Cohen's Superduets are tailor-made for players at the very earliest stages of learning. These delightful pieces serve as a unique introduction to the joys of social music-making and help pupils to develop the invaluable skills required for ensemble playing at an early stage. The violin books are also compatible with the cello books, opening up possibilities for mixed ensemble playing.

Mary Cohen’s Superduets 1 and 2 are both winners for beginner violinists and offer some exciting ways of introducing the basics of music reading and violin technique, together with ensemble trainingEach of the ten pieces in book 1 is prefaced by a rhythm-and-beat exercise (on two staves) using the crotchet and its rest (‘wait’), and quavers. After showing the difference between beat and rhythm, she suggests a variety of ways of keeping the beat in both pizzicato and arco playing: she includes both the more usual clapping and stamping, and more novel suggestions, such as ‘flick hand from side to side like a cat’s tail’, ‘shrug shoulders grumpily’, tapping collegno, and tapping (the stand) with the screw end of the bow. The very short imaginative pieces are written on two staves and used to introduce pitch reading (including open strings G D and A, and the notes B (on the A String) and E and G (on the D String), dynamics and rhythmic control.

Music Teacher Magazine, May 2000

Mary Riggs Cohen is a graduate of Wake Forest University and received her doctoral training at the Catholic University of America. She received postdoctoral family therapy training at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Center and was a clinical supervisor in the psychology training program there through the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Cohen is a licensed psychologist in New York and Pennsylvania. She has 30 years of experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families and has specialized in the treatment of Asperger syndrome for 12 years.

While Clinical Director of the Social Learning Disorders Program of the University of Pennsylvania Psychiatry Department, she developed the Social Skills Seminar for young adults with autism spectrum disorders. The program has been taught year round at the University of Pennsylvania and at various locations in the Philadelphia metropolitan area for more than 8 years and most recently in New York City. Her Pennsylvania clinical practice is at the Center for Neuropsychology and Counseling in Warrington. She is an associate of the Asperger Center for Education and Training in New York and has her New York clinical practice at Spectrum Services in Manhattan. Dr. Cohen is a consultant to several schools and autism programs as well as colleges that provide specialized services for students on the spectrum.

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ISBN 13	9780571518890
ISBN 10	0571518893
Title	Superduets Book 1
Author	Mary Cohen
Series	Faber Edition Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber Music Ltd
Year published	1998-10-15
Number of pages	16
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.