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Reviews Music & Books

Take the Stage: Easy pieces for beginning violinists with a "showbiz" theme (violin, piano). Hilary Burgoyne. Boosey & Hawkes, 1993. $10. This attractive volume uses a variety of stylesto build musical and technical skills. Beginning with pizzicato open strings in a "Soft Shoe Shuffle," the nineteen pieces cover such techniques as simple syncopations, slurs, and "blue notes." The book progresses gradually from open strings to using one finger, then two, then three. Interestingly, both "high" and "low"positions of the second finger are covered before the third finger is introduced, liberating the student early from being locked into the whole step-half step positioning of the first three fingers. In fact, "liberating" is a good word to describe many of the concepts employed in Take the Stage. "Ghost Train" permits the student to take the bow off the string