Violin Books & Publications

Violin Magazines

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Featured Violin Books

	The Complete Guide to Making More Money in the Private Music Studio Mimi Butler Covers all aspects of the private studio: marketing, scheduling, billing, policies for make-ups, recitals and mentoring.		Rosindust: Teaching, Learning and Life from a Cellist's Perspective Cornelia Watkins
	Violins and Violinists Franz Farga	[No Image Available]	Violin Mastery Interviews with renowned violinists [Free online]
			The Cambridge Companion to the Violin (Cambridge Companions to Music)
	Violin Virtuosos Strings Backstage
	Principles of Violin Playing & Teaching Ivan Galamian		The Athletic Musician Barbara Paull A guide to playing the violin without pain

Other Highly Recommended Books for Violinists

• Great Masters of the Violin by Boris Schwarz; Fireside Publishing
• The Violin Hunter by William Alexander Silverman; Paganiniana Publishing
• The art of Practicing the Violin by Robert Gerle; J. W. Pepper & Son
• String Syllabus, ASTA, David A. Littrell, Editor
• The Musician’s Survival Manual: A Guide to Preventing and Treating Injuries in Instrumentalists, by Richard Norris; International Conference of Symphony and Opera Musicians (ICSOM)
• While others slept, by Florence Nightengale?
• The Amadeus Book of the Violin
• The 50 Greatest Composers and Their 1,000 Greatest Works Phil G. Goulding

Recommended Violin Study Guides

• Studying Music History, 2nd ed., David Poultney
• The Elements of Music, Vol. 1, Ralph Turek
• The Elements of Music, Vol. 2, Ralph Turek
• A History of Western Music, Sixth Edition, Donald J. Grout, Claude V. Palisca.
• Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music: Ancient to Baroque (6-CD set), Donald J. Grout.
• Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music : Classic to Modern (6-CD set), Donald J. Grout.
• Study and Listening Guide for Concise History of Western Music and Norton Anthology of Western Music, J. Peter Burkholder.
• Outlines of Grout History of Wesstern Music
• Scale-Studies for the Violin (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics, Volume 842), Johann Hrimaly.
• Sixty Studies Opus 45, Franz Wohlfahrt.
• Forty Studies For Violin, Herbert Chang.
• Daily Scale Exercises for Violin, Herbert Chang.
• Scale System : Scale Exercises in All Major and Minor Keys for Daily Study, Carl Flesch.
• Art of Violin Playing: Book One, Carl Flesch. New translation by Eric Rosenblith.
• Principles of Violin Playing and Teaching, Ivan Galamian.
• Art of Practicing the Violin: With Useful Hints for All String Players, Robert Gerle.
• The Art of Bowing Practice/3.3398: The Expressive Bow Technique, Robert Gerle.
• Orchestral Excerpts, Carolyn Rabson.
• The History of Violin Playing from Its Origins to 1761 and Its Relationship to the Violin and Violin Music, David D. Boyden.
• Violin Playing As I Teach It, Leopold Auer.
• Early Recordings and Musical Style : Changing Tastes in Instrumental Performance, 1900-1950, Robert Philip.
• String playing in Baroque music, Robert Donington.
• A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing (Early Music Series, 6), Leopold Mozart.
• The Great Violinists, Margaret Campbell.
• Great masters of the violin: From Corelli and Vivaldi to Stern, Zukerman, and Perlman , Boris Schwarz.
• Violin Virtuosos: From Paganini to the 21st Century, Henry Roth.

Professional Journals

• ASTA Journal
• Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy
• ASTA String Syllabus