Apresentar aos alunos uma introdução aos estudos do instrumento; trabalhar a técnica básica por meio de um repertório e exercícios específicos para o violoncelo.
Exercícios e repertório condizentes com a especificidade do violoncelo.
– Uma suite de Bach – 3 estudos ou caprichos (Popper, Duport ou Piatti) – Um Concerto (ou peça concertante) Clássica ou Romântico – Uma peça brasileira
Básica: COWLING, ELIZABETH. The Cello. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1983 DUPORT, JEAN LOUIS. Essay on Fingering the Violoncello, and on the Conduct of the Bow. London: Augener, 1904. LE GUIN, ELISABETH. Boccherini's Body: An Essay in Carnal Musicology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. STOWELL, ROBIN. The Cambridge Companion to the Cello. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. STOWELL, ROBIN. The Historical Performance of Music: An Introduction. Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. WALDEN, VALERIE. One Hundred Years of Violoncello. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Complementar: CUPIS, JEAN BAPTISTE. Sonates à violon seul avec la basse continue, Ire oeuvre. New York: Performers’ Facsimiles, 1987. GEMINIANI, FRANCESCO. The Art of Playing on the Violin. London, 1751. Facsimile, London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Klassiche Violoncell-Musik berühmter Meister des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. HERAUSGEGEBEN, VON CARL SCHROEDER. Mainz: B. Schott’s Söhne, 1911. Reprint by New York: Belwin Mills, 1976. LESCAT, PHILIPPE; JEAN SAINT-ARROMAN, ed. Violoncelle: méthodes et traités, dictionnaires, préfaces des oeuvres. Paris: Editions J. M. Fuzeau, 1998.Lawson, Colin, and Robin ———. “One Says that One Weeps, but One Does Not Weep: Sensible, Grotesque, and Mechanical Embodiments in Boccherini’s Chamber Music.” Journal of the Amercan Musicological Society 55, no. 2 (summer 2002): 207–54. STRAETEN, EDMUND SEBASTIAN JOSEPH VAN DER. History of the Violoncello, the Viol da gamba, their Precursors and Collateral Instruments: with Biographies of All the Most Eminent Players of Every Country. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1976.Walden, Valerie. One Hundred Years of Violoncello. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.