Books about Strings

Books about The Strad

This guide lists more than 5,200 works for the solo cellist written by 3,100 composers over the past thirty years. Entries give information on the date of composition, duration, publisher or source, first performances, and recordings, instrumentation, new performance techniques used, and degree of difficulty. Indexed by composers and cellists.

"Encompasses all music in editions for one to ten players involving one or any combination of violin, viola, violoncello, double-bass, and viols. Other combinations include strings in company with woodwinds, brass, percussion, keyboards, guitar, mandolin, harp and electronic equipment" -- Pref.

Books about String Music in Print