School of Bowing Technique for Cello, Op.2: Book 2 (Sections III-IV)

Otakar Ševcík's Op.2 is a fundamental tutor for teaching the violin. It focuses on the elementary problems of right-hand technique which Ševcík practices in 4,000 variants of systematically organized exercises for all bowings. This famous tutor has remained in use to the present day and is equally valued by players of other string instruments.

The distinguished cellist Tomáš Jamník has arranged the School of Bowing Technique for the violoncello, taking into account its differences from the violin. He has transcribed individual exercises for the violoncello without neglecting Ševcík's original pedagogical aims. As a result, this edition differs fundamentally from the only known cello arrangement of this opus by Louis R. Feuillard.

Preface

Introductory Note

Section III.

Exercises on two strings

• No.29. Example with 575 variants
• Variants in quavers
• Triplet variants
• Variants in semiquavers

Exercises for skipping over one or two strings

• No.30. Example with 190 variants

Section IV.

Arpeggios on two strings

• No.31. Study with 17 variants
• No.32. Three-note arpeggios with 58 variants
• No.33. Arpeggios in groups of four notes with 75 variants
• No.34. Arpeggios in groups of six notes with 31 variants
• No.35. Arpeggios in groups of eight notes with 23 variants

Double-stopping and single notes in alternation

• No.36. Two studies with 174 variants

BA 11548, text in Czech, English, German ; ISMN: 979-0-2601-0848-6