Violin Music by Women: Table of Contents by Volume
Volume 1: Beginning
This volume is all in first position (with some optional third position in the last piece). There's quite an assortment of styles for you to enjoy. Don't forget to read the composer biographies at the back of the violin book!
Eve Hungerford
An Old World Minuet, The Gipsy Fiddler, and The Marionettes
Minuetta Kessler
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Waltz, Op.114 #1
Edith L. Winn
From the Carolina Hills, Op. 15
No. 3: “A Picture”
No. 4: “The Sunshine Lad”
No. 6: “Buy My Pine”
Gail Ridgway Brown
Tiptoe Dance
Anna Priscilla Risher
The Bumblebee
Hannah M. Bartel
Kansas Memories Suite
“Rainy Daze”
“Green Tomatoes”
“’Lil Blue”
“The Ice Skating Pond”
Charlotte Louise Woodbridge
Dance of the Gnomes
Josephine Trott
Two Tuneful Sketches
“The Town Clock”
“At Dancing School”
Ethel Barns
Aria
Irma Seydel
Minuet
Eve Hungerford
An Old World Minuet, The Gipsy Fiddler, and The Marionettes
Minuetta Kessler
The Peanut Butter and Jelly Waltz, Op.114 #1
Edith L. Winn
From the Carolina Hills, Op. 15
No. 3: “A Picture”
No. 4: “The Sunshine Lad”
No. 6: “Buy My Pine”
Gail Ridgway Brown
Tiptoe Dance
Anna Priscilla Risher
The Bumblebee
Hannah M. Bartel
Kansas Memories Suite
“Rainy Daze”
“Green Tomatoes”
“’Lil Blue”
“The Ice Skating Pond”
Charlotte Louise Woodbridge
Dance of the Gnomes
Josephine Trott
Two Tuneful Sketches
“The Town Clock”
“At Dancing School”
Ethel Barns
Aria
Irma Seydel
Minuet
Volume 2: Intermediate 1
The Intermediate 1 volume contains pieces that use first, second and third positions, with occasional forays up to the half-string harmonic. There are chances to use your vibrato as well as show your fast fingers. Upbow staccato, spiccato and artificial harmonics are included-- stretch your technical muscles!
Florence Morey
Tanglefoot's Mad Chase
Ethel Harraden Glover
At Twilight
Gavotte
Irma Seydel
Bijou Minuet
Grace White
Impromptu
Over the Snow
Julia Klumpkey
The Goblins Will Get You
Gail Ridgeway Brown
Danse Rustique Mazurka
Mary O'Hara
The Sunset Dance
Florence Morey
Tanglefoot's Mad Chase
Ethel Harraden Glover
At Twilight
Gavotte
Irma Seydel
Bijou Minuet
Grace White
Impromptu
Over the Snow
Julia Klumpkey
The Goblins Will Get You
Gail Ridgeway Brown
Danse Rustique Mazurka
Mary O'Hara
The Sunset Dance
Volume 3: Intermediate 2
The music in volume 3, Intermediate 2, grows in musical and technical demands as you grow with it! Using first through fifth positions (with the last piece pushing the envelope into sixth), works range from a Classical period sonata movement to a previously unpublished contemporary composition by Marga Richter, and then on to a wild mambo by young New Zealand composer Claire Scholes. Have fun!
Josephine Trott
In a Spanish Garden
Marga Richter
Three Pieces for Violin and Piano
Ann Mounsey Bartholomew
Two Polonaises for Violin and Piano
Gena Branscombe
An Old Love Tale
Julia Klumpkey
Tango "Ad Astra"
Madame Delaval
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Mov. 1
Rosalind F. Ellicott
A Sketch
Ethel Barns
Berceuse
Claire Scholes
Knees Up Mambo
Josephine Trott
In a Spanish Garden
Marga Richter
Three Pieces for Violin and Piano
Ann Mounsey Bartholomew
Two Polonaises for Violin and Piano
Gena Branscombe
An Old Love Tale
Julia Klumpkey
Tango "Ad Astra"
Madame Delaval
Sonata No. 2 in F major, Mov. 1
Rosalind F. Ellicott
A Sketch
Ethel Barns
Berceuse
Claire Scholes
Knees Up Mambo
Volume 4: Advanced
The sky is the limit in this volume! Explore jazz styles in two pieces (one commissioned from Libby Larsen for the anthology), 20th century compositional techniques in two others, some virtuosic showpieces, and a stunning slow movement by Rebecca Clarke from her student days, unpublished before now.
Libby Larsen
Blue Piece for Violin and Piano
Lauren Wells
Serpentine
Audrey Call
The Witch of Harlem
Rebecca Clarke
Andante quasi Adagio from Sonata in D major
Marie de Grandval
Bohemienne
Helen Ware
Caprice Gennett
Ethel Barns
Nachtgesang
Amanda Maier
Allegro molto from Six Pieces for Violin and Piano
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Tango from Partita for Violin and Piano
Libby Larsen
Blue Piece for Violin and Piano
Lauren Wells
Serpentine
Audrey Call
The Witch of Harlem
Rebecca Clarke
Andante quasi Adagio from Sonata in D major
Marie de Grandval
Bohemienne
Helen Ware
Caprice Gennett
Ethel Barns
Nachtgesang
Amanda Maier
Allegro molto from Six Pieces for Violin and Piano
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
Tango from Partita for Violin and Piano