The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike, each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques, fingerings, notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning.

The 21 pieces in Shooting Stars use 2nd, 3rd and 4th finger notes. The collection, which is the fourth volume of the series, also offers rhythmic challenges (triplets, basic syncopation, a piece in five time), a little chromaticism and some new bowings.

The old oak tree
Morris dancers
The misty isle
Alla Marcia
Head-in-the-clouds
Five-a-side
The carol singers
Carefree
Thingummyjig! -
Coconuts and mangoes
Winter wind
Moto perpetuo
Cossacks
Rustic Dance
Stiffkey blues
Look lively!
Miles away
Chinatown
By candlelight
Where the heather grows
Tarantella


Difficulty: very easy to easy