Violin and viola

Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides

by Yehudi Menuhin

An immensely important series of books, each one on a different instrument or group of instruments within the 'orchestral' family. Yehudi Menuhin was the general editor of the series originally launched in the 1970s. Every contribution is by an acknowledged master of his chosen instrument. The series is aimed at music students of all ages, amateur musicians, music teachers and all readers actively committed to music. It is the unique merit of the series that each book represents the individual view of its author (within an accepted framework) and, since each contributor is a musician of outstanding talent as well as an expert in his or her particular field, this approach gives the music guides their character and validity.

Genres: Music, Nonfiction

250 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1976

About the author

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, OM, KBE is widely considered one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He also served to help popularize yoga in the West by arranging for B.K.S. Iyengar to teach throughout Europe in the 1950s.

In 1993, he was made a life peer, as Baron Menuhin of Stoke d'Abernon in the County of Surrey, U.K.

Reviews

[Beatrice]

E' un libro che ho trovato pesante da leggere, ma sicuramente non posso farne una colpa agli scrittori, entrambi musicisti eccellenti, che offrono anche molti consigli utili sull'insegnamento. La sezione sul repertorio è la più interessante ed è sicuramente da approfondire. Consigliato a tutti i violinisti e violisti, soprattutto agli insegnanti e agli studenti di livello avanzato.