Instructional Video5:19
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How To Play Violin/Fiddle - The Swan - Position Shifting

5th - 12th
Listen as Paul plays "The Swan," which requires a lot of position switching. This video does not include a lesson, just a clip of the song being played.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mad Hot Tango: Caeli Smith

9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 15-year-old violinist Caeli Smith plays a wonderful movement from Astor Piazzolla's L'histoire du tango, called Bordel 1900. [0:49]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Listening With Your Eyes: Matthew Lipman

9th - 10th
In this From the Top at Carnegie Hall video segment, 16-year-old violist Matthew Lipman plays La Campanella" from the Second Violin Concerto by Niccolo Paganini. [4:12]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: From the Top at Carnegie Hall: Gypsy Airs: Anna Ji Eun Lee

9th - 10th
From the Top at Carnegie Hall video featuring a performance by 12-year-old Anna JiEun Lee on the violin. [4:41]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: From the Top at Carnegie Hall Video Podcast

9th - 10th
Here you will find thirty video podcasts of performances from Carnegie Hall including violin, piano, and other orchestra instruments. Most of these artists are teenagers.
Audio
BBC

Bbc Orchestra Guide: Strings Violin

3rd - 8th
Presented by the BBC, this page features the violin. You can read a brief description of the violin, listen to various samples of the violin and read an interview of a professional violin player.
Instructional Video
Other

National Film Board of Canada: The Chinese Violin

Pre-K - 1st
Animated film, with soundtrack, of a young girl who moves with her father from China to Canada and begins a new life. Learn what role music plays in her immigration experience. [8:23]