Kanteleen pyörtehissä, 10-15-kielisten kanteleiden soitto-opas
Kanteleen pyörtehissä, 10-15-kielisten kanteleiden soitto-opas
KIJ 119, 2024
Authors of the book: Anu Alviola & Aurora Visa.
136 pages.
The 10–15 string kantele guide by Anu Alviola and Aurora Visa, kantele pedagogues and experienced teachers, is a new technique and repertoire guide to the world of 10- and 15-string kanteles, popular melody and accompaniment instruments whose larger number of strings allows for more versatile music-making than the 5-string kantele. However, many pieces on the guide are also playable with 5-string kantele.
The guide introduces the basic playing techniques from chord playing to plucking, mixed style playing and joint melody and accompaniment playing. The suitability of the piece for different skill levels and different types of kantele are indicated with symbols, and clear finger position diagrams are included. The more than a hundred pieces in the guide include alse new repertoire composed and arranged for 10 and 15-string kantele.
The guide is written in Finnish.