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The purpose of this study is to explore how the French School of Cello technique evolved over two and a half centuries and how it has influenced cello playing and pedagogy in the United States and in Canada, and whether it is still possible to distinguish it from other schools of bow and left hand technique. The study includes a historical background and overview of the origins of the French cello school: its importance and influence on today's major schools of cello playing, a comparison of the world's five major cello schools, and a proposal of the existence of a Global school of cello playing that has evolved in North America. A cello family tree in Chapter 4 traces the multiple cello school influences on the author. Interviews of five established cello teachers in North America are discussed in Chapter 5. Appendices include the unabridged interviews of the five cellists and a table of content of Bazelaire's Méthode.

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La folia / Marin Marais -- Seven variations on a theme from the Magic Flute / Ludwig van Beethoven -- Concerto in G minor / Georg Matthias Monn -- Sonata for cello and piano in C major / Sergei Prokofiev / text

Trois pieces / N. Boulanger -- Sonata op.8 / Z. Kodaly -- Pohadka / L. Janacek -- Sonata no.1, op.32 / C. Saint-Saens / text

Suite italienne / Igor Stravinsky -- Capriccio per Siegfried Palm / Krzysztof Penderecki -- From Jewish life / Ernest Bloch -- Sonata, op. 6 / Samuel Barber. / text

Fantasiestucke : op. 73 ; Stucke im Volkston : op. 102 / Robert Schumann -- Sonata, op. 40 / Dmitri Shostakovich. / text

Cello concerto in D major, op. 101. Allegro moderato / Joseph Haydn ; cadenza by Nora Karakousoglou -- Sonata for piano and cello in B-flat major, op. 45 / Felix Mendelssohn -- Diptychom : for solo cello / Georgios Kassoglou -- From Carnival of the animals. The swan ; Allegro appassionato : op. 43 / Camille Saint-Saens -- Sicilienne / Maria-Theresia von Paradis -- Sicilienne, op. 78 / Gabriel Faure -- Mazurka, op. 11, no. 3 ; Gnomentanz : op. 50, no. 2 ; Tarantella, op. 33 / David Popper. / text

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The main purpose of this essay is to develop the most effective and logical sequence of skills for teaching children how to play the cello. This essay deals with the questions "When does one introduce specific skills for playing the cello?" and "Is there a sequence of skills that is universally the most beneficial for learning how to play the cello?" The chapters include a detailed examination of the existing cello methods currently available to cello teachers, and explore whether the ideal comprehensive cello sequence exists. It is important for teachers to have a complete plan for the young cellist and to have the proper repertoire that will make this thorough education a possibility. Many teachers use multiple scale and method books that do not fit into a sequence. These books are not designed to be used with each other, and it can be inconvenient to have numerous books in every lesson. I have created a method that contains a logical sequence of skills, spans from the very beginning stages of learning to the most advanced stages of learning, has corresponding scales and exercises for each piece, and avoids confusion and clutter of multiple books by placing scales, exercises, and pieces side by side. This study is meant to assist young teachers by providing a clearly progressive and comprehensive cello method with a corresponding instructional website.