Pop Goes the Cello

Aaron Minsky

- Imaginative and entertaining pieces
- A variety of contemporary styles, including pop, rock, Latin, and country
- Technical challenges such as double stops, syncopated rhythms, harmonics, thumb position, and percussive effects
- Useful fingering and bowing suggestions

This fun and innovative collection introduces cellists to a range of pop and rock styles. Building on the trail-blazing approach to cello playing that he developed in Ten American Cello Etudes and Ten International Cello Encores, Aaron Minsky presents the intermediate student with attractive new pieces that explore a number of technical and musical challenges.

Forces or Category

Solo cello

Difficulty

Moderately difficult to Difficult

Table of Contents

Varsity Days
Gathering of the Tribes
The Hipster
Tiny Dancing Bears
Perpetual Coolness
Mississippi Showboat
On Top of the World
Good Chimes
The Prelude Waltz
Space Cowboy