Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet – Florence Price
With February as Black history month, there are more and more resources that are being produced to help teachers and students explore this part of music history . Here is a Great Composers Note Reading Worksheet on the American female composer, Florence Price. While Florence Price’s music is too advanced for the beginner. Here is note reading worksheet to introduce her name and a little bit about her for the student working on identifying note names. The violin worksheet covers notes on the A and E strings. The viola and cello worksheets cover pitches on the D and A strings. For the teacher using this in an orchestra setting, the answers for the blanks are the same for all the worksheets. I adjusted the E string notes down 1 octave for the viola and cello worksheet.
Note Reading Worksheets
Florence Price Sheet Music
For sheet music by Florence Price, check out IMSLP’s collection. Several arrangements by Elaine Fine of Adoration are available for different combinations of instruments.
Price’s work The Deserted Garden would be accessible for a violin student in level 4. ABRSM has included it in their 2024 Violin Syllabus at Level 4. This piece is still under copyright by G. Schirmer in the United States. Because of this teachers should purchase the sheet music from a music dealer. The sheet music is available from these dealers: J.W. Pepper, Sheet Music Plus, Virtual Sheet Music, Sheet Music Direct
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The Deserted Garden (Grade 4, B2, from the ABRSM Violin Syllabus from 2024) Composed by Florence Beatrice Price. This edition: scorch. Classical. 3 pages. ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) #VEPs_G4_B2. Published by ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) (HX.1246290). |
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With some shifting into 3rd position, 4th finger harmonics, this is very accessible to the student learning 3rd position. There is a good dynamic variety that would help the student that is working on bow control. Legato playing throughout would help the student learning to develop musical line and phrasing. This is a great piece for the Suzuki teacher who wants to add in 20th century works, compositions by African-American composers, and women composers into the student’s repertoire.
