Easy Pieces for Cello

Written for student cellists, to be accompanied by their teacher on Piano, or a second cello.

The Dream.MUS

The Journey.MUS

Nocturne.MUS

Finale PrintMusic 2008 - [The Dream.pdf

Finale PrintMusic 2008 - [The Journey.pdf

Finale PrintMusic 2008 - [Nocturne.pdf

I don't play the cello but these seem to be very useful student pieces.

I especially like the nocturne which has a fine melody and accompaniment - although it looks harder with the double stopping.

Thanks for sharing this music.

Herb

could you upload it in .pdf form? or scan the pages? I am a cellist, I would like to look at it, and maybe I can help you, or say something, but I can't open it with my finale:( :)

The double stopping is quite simple. The "A" is an open string, so it can all be done in first position, and only requires one fretted finger. I'm not sure i like the tritone between the tritone between the Eb and A in bar 33 etc, but I wanted to keep the dominant pedal note going all the way through, although, at this point, it is in F major, so it's technically not a dominant pedal note. Anythoughts?

The double stopping is quite simple. The "A" is an open string, so it can all be done in first position, and only requires one fretted finger. I'm not sure i like the tritone between the tritone between the Eb and A in bar 33 etc, but I wanted to keep the dominant pedal note going all the way through, although, at this point, it is in F major, so it's technically not a dominant pedal note. Anythoughts?

Yes, I see what you mean.

One possibility might be to walk down chromatically in m33 and then up in m35 so the lower half notes in the top cello part would go:

E, Eb, D, F, Eb, Enat, D

and then change the other cello part and piano left hand to match. I'm not sure if this is an improvement or not :).

Midi please?

I only listened to the nocturne and thought it was a pretty, useful student piece. The only thing I didn't enjoy was the picardy third at the end...It is pretty corny in my opinion

You could leave out the F# in that last bar of the first cello, leaving them in an open fifth. The F# in the piano would suggest D major anyway, but it wouldn't be as immediately obvious.