Catherine Howe
HOW TO PLAY STRING HARMONICS...
In 2020 I wrote a piece of music called 'Moonlight over the Ocean'. Once when I was on summer holiday with my family in a town on the...
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Catherine Howe
- Apr 1
HOW TO STAY RELAXED WHEN PLAYING A STRING INSTRUMENT...
We learn, over many years, to play our string instruments by being taught technical stuff: hand positions, position changing, scales and...
Catherine Howe
- Mar 31
HOW TO PLAY GREAT STACCATO, WITH HELP FROM THE 'LITTLE BIRDS...'!
One of the first pieces I ever wrote was a piece called ‘Little Birds Flit About’. In our kitchen, we have what we like to call our...
Catherine Howe
- Mar 18
WHY 'NKOSI SIKELEL' iAFRIKA'?
In the late 1990s, I visited South Africa on a tour with a ballet company. We flew to Cape Town and spent a week there, then went to...
Catherine Howe
- Mar 7
'THE SKYE BOAT SONG'...
Many people recognise this tune now as it's the theme music to the TV series 'Outlander' Here's an easy arrangement for string quartet.
Catherine Howe
- Feb 23
WHY I DECIDED TO MAKE THE RECORDINGS...
Hi folks... At the moment I'm working on the Shop part of the site, altering the titles in the gallery so that you can see the...
Catherine Howe
- Feb 23
I HAD TO INCLUDE FOLK SONGS...
I want to include folk tunes on the site because I just love them and they remind me of past times in my life.
Catherine Howe
- Feb 23
IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF THE FOLK TUNE 'DANNY BOY'!
‘Danny Boy’ is my favourite. The words were written by Fred Weatherley in 1910 to a different tune than the one we now know.
Catherine Howe
- May 6, 2022
WHO ARE 'STRING BEGINNERS'?
Welcome to the first blog post of thelittlemusicbazaar.com, the website where you can buy original pieces of music and folk song arrangement
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