Gypsy Violin

Learn how to play Violin in the gypsy style with help from someone who has mastered the genre, expert teacher Mary Ann Harbar. This book contains practice tips, a helpful glossary, a short essay on the Gypsy touch and a fine assortment of approximately 50 annotated traditional Gypsy tunes from Russia, Romania, Hungary and Bessarabia. Based on many years of research, travel, and participation in slavas or Gypsy jam sessions, this long-anticipated book makes a significant and colourful contribution to the Violin repertoire while providing a thorough grounding in the characteristic elements of the passionate Gypsy style. Gypsy Violin includes access to online audio containing every song in the book at performance tempo with Violin accompaniment.