Stringsongs develop the reading skills begun in Tetratunes, by the use of singing and part-playing, without requiring the more advanced keys or position work. The main aims are developing musicianship, the use of basic bowing skills for interpretation, accurate pitching based on singing and well-understood scales, and the ability to listen to a contrasting part.
Contents
- A boat, a boat (Jenkins)
- Ave Maria (anon)
- Come, follow (Hilton)
- Drummer's march (Nelson)
- Echo dance (Nelson)
- Emperor Waltz (Strauss)
- Favourite round (anon)
- Fiddle and flute (trad)
- Gavotte (Handel)
- Haste thee, nymph (Arnold)
- I sing when I'm happy (Nelson)
- Idle cowboy (Nelson)
- Little Brown Jug (Eastburn)
- London's burning (trad)
- Long, long ago (Bayley)
- My dame hath a lame, tame crane (trad)
- O my love (anon)
- Oh, how lovely is the evening (anon)
- Rumba time (Nelson)
- Sound for us (anon)
- Summer is a-coming in (anon)
- Summer song (Nelson)
- Tallis' canon (Tallis)
- The flower wondrous-fair (Beethoven)
- The four posted bed
- The rose (Hayes)
- Three blind mice (trad)