David Blackwell

Featuring elegant melodies, the Rondeau from Mozart's Piano Sonata K309 is arranged for violin here by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are the award-winning authors of OUP's educational string series....

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement of the Andante from Mozart's masterful piano sonata caputures the essence of the classical style.

Taken from the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement captures the traditional Klezmer style while featuring the fast dance in 4/4 called the Bulgar.

This energetic spiritual has a jazzy feel and is full of memorable melodies, arranged and carefully tailored for the needs of the beginner violinist. Originally published in Solo Time for Violin Book...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement beautifully preserves the style of Czech folk music found in Dvo?ák's original, and the contrast of major and minor sections.

Originally published in Bach for Violin, this is a lovely arrangement of a contrasting pair of dances. The first is lively and in a major key, and the second more sombre in the tonic minor.

This is the middle section of a substantial organ piece, and takes the form of a highly expressive melody over a realized accompaniment. The violin line is filled with chromatic inflections, wide inte...

This celebrated Gigue concludes the third partita, a genre built on a sequence of dance movements like Bach's the suites. With busy semiquaver runs at a lively tempo, this piece is perfect for practis...

This Sonata is the opening movement of a cantata, rearranged here for solo violin. The dotted rhythms recall the style of a French overture, a form often associated with pageantry and procession, and...

The well-known movement from Bach's Advent cantata was first performed in Leipzig in 1731, and rearranged here for solo violin by Kathy and David Blackwell. The first line translates literally as 'Awa...

This charming folk melody from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book is full of lilting and dotted rhythms, arranged and carefully tailored for the needs of the beginner violinist . Originally published in So...

With lively semiquavers and well-crafted melodies, this set of two passepieds by Bach is arranged here for violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are award-winning authors of OUP's educational strin...

Featuring quaver runs and a change in metre, this is an energetic traditional tune arranged by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are the award-winning authors of OUP's educational string series. Original...

Featuring beautifully balanced melodies and stately rhythms, this pair of minuets by Haydn is arranged here for violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, who are award-winning authors of OUP's educational...

Arranged here for solo violin by Kathy and David Blackwell, this relaxing piece is a celebration of the music and island of Haiti, featuring its local dance rhythms. Originally published in Solo Time...

Well known for his numerous children's songs, this gentle piece by Nakayama features simple but pensive melodies, and utilises pentatonic scales in both of its sections. Originally published in Solo T...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3, this arrangement of the second movement of Haydn's Violin Concerto in G captures the gentle, songlike melody, and stylish embellishment of the period.

First published as part of a piece for wind trio, this movement is in sonata form and bears all the hallmarks of Mozart's Classical style. From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3.

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3, this piece is based on the third movement of Schumann's Piano Quartet. The rising and falling sevenths of the lyrical and expressive melody have a year...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3, this is an arrangement of the second of Pierné's Three Pieces for Organ (Op. 29). It features a 'singing' melody, well suited to the violin.

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this arrangement captures the tenderness of Grieg's original and well-loved piece for piano.

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3, this traditional American bluegrass tune is here arranged for violin and piano. It explores techniques used by traditional fiddle players, and includes...

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3, this is a fun and skilful arrangement of one of Scott Joplin's most famous piano ragtime pieces.

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 2, this misterious moto perpetuo is an original and highly effective study by the authors of the celebrated String Time series.

From the collection Solo Time for Violin Book 3, this Baroque Allegretto is a highly effective arrangement of a keyboard fantasia in ritornello form.