MARK O'CONNOR VIOLIN METHOD BOOK 1 & AUDIO CD TO PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT

The O'Connor Violin Method employs classic violin technique and theory to teach students to become skilled violinists. But more than that, the O'Connor Violin Method uses familiar traditional American music to engage and motivate the young student. The lavishly illustrated books focus on well known traditional American tunes such as Oh! Susanna, Amazing Grace, Appalachia Waltz, and Soldier's Joy. The method seeks to instill a deep appreciation of America's musical history with background stories of all those that contributed to this rich heritage: Immigrants, African-American slaves, soldiers - all of whom together created what has become the new American Classical Music. A unique feature of this method is that through the progressive development of initially simple works, O'Connor demonstrates that there is more than one way to play a piece, adding an 'improvisational' twist not found in other methods. The goal of the O'Connor method is that young people everywhere will fall in love with playing music. Included with each volume is a CD with piano accompaniment tracks. Binding is tight and square. No loose, missing, torn, dog-eared, water stained pages. There is a marking on one page which I have shown in the photographs, and on the last page there are light pencil mark erasures. The rest of the pages are clean and bright. The CD is unused and still sealed in the vinyl pocket at the back of the book. The book will ship in a cardboard sleeve inside of a poly mailer.