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

​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

​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the last piece pushing the envelope into sixth), works range from a Classical period sonata movement to a previously unpublished contemporary composition by Marga Richter, and then on to a wild mambo by young New Zealand composer Claire Scholes.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

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