{"product_id":"octotunes-12-pieces-for-flex-string-ensemble","title":"Octotunes 12 Pieces For Flex String Ensemble","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Octotunes 12 Pieces For Flex String Ensemble\" is a music book created by Sheila Nelson, an award-winning teacher, writer, and performer. The book consists of short and enjoyable pieces suitable for flexible ensembles, including solo violin, violin duo, three violins and cello, and string quartet, with an optional keyboard accompaniment part. The book is designed for students who have completed Sheila Nelson's Essential String Method Book 1 and provides an early experience of ensemble playing, without extensions, shifts, or changes of finger pattern from the basic open string scales. The pieces stay within the keys of A and D major, with rhythms limited to quavers, crotchets, crotchet rests, minims, and dotted minims, and time signatures limited to 3 and 4. Octotunes help develop reading skills in two stages, with the student first encouraged to learn and sing tunes from the sol-fa charts before transferring to the stave notation with additional dynamics and bowing. Originally solos with a keyboard using only the eight notes of an open string scale, each of the pieces was written and named for one of Sheila Nelson's youngest pupils. The book is suitable for beginners and helps with concert performances with the light keyboard accompaniment that provides some notes not available to the strings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Encore Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41834866868283,"sku":"M060117527","price":40.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0552\/9275\/6027\/files\/M060117527.jpg?v=1726334929","url":"https:\/\/www.music2u.com.au\/products\/octotunes-12-pieces-for-flex-string-ensemble","provider":"Music2u.com.au","version":"1.0","type":"link"}