Introduction

Camel Music offers clear, practical, even urtext, editions of string music. You will find all sorts of sheet music here, from music for solo violin to large-scale works for string orchestra.

Click on names on the Composers page to view works by individual composers or search by genre using the menu above.

Baroque music features strongly with special emphasis on the works of

J S Bach, Geminiani, Tartini and Johan Helmich Roman but there is huge choice of music here and recently our range of fiddle music has attracted particular attention.

Fiddle Music

This has become a popular area of our catalogue, featuring the John Clare collection in 2 volumes, 2 volumes of John Moore’s collection of fiddle tunes, the last Playford Volumes 2 and 3  which date from the 1720s and are unavailable in modern editions and the tunes from ‘The Beggar’s Opera’.

Three recent additions are:

The Gow Family - Volume One

28 Fiddle Tunes by William, Andrew and John Gow

(CM226)

Seven tunes by William (1751-1791), three by Andrew (1760-1803) and 18 by John Gow (1764-1826.)

This volume marks 200 years since the death of John Gow.

24 Welsh Fiddle Tunes (CM211), as played by Robert (Bob) Evans, transcribed from a tape made in June 1984. I was handed a cassette tape about 10 years ago by my friend the violin-maker Padraig ó Dubhlaoidh, who had treasured it for years since Bob Evans had given it to him and I was asked if I could ‘write it down’!

A Book of Maggots (CM210). This is devoted to the musical maggot, a particularly or peculiarly English dance tune. This new collection of 92 tunes is taken from publications ranging over 70 years, starting with Mr Farmer’s Magot (sic!) from ‘Apollo’s Banquet’ from 1687. There are notes on individual tunes and the volume ends with a duet version of Dubourg’s Maggot.

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Visit our Fiddle Music page.

From August 2025, orders of £30 or over qualify for Free Postage.

Pdfs are available for most of our smaller scale pieces - do ask if you’d prefer a pfd version (same price as printed score).

Visit our Ordering page for details on how to order

Our focus in 2026 continues to be a complete edition of

Tartini’s ‘Piccole Sonate’

This is a radical new edition, reordering the sonatas according to a newly discovered ‘scheme’, and reordering movements within some sonatas, following hints in the MS. There are extensive notes on Tartini’s own corrections and rejected movements.

All the sonatas are available separately now, as printed copies or pdfs. The first volume of Sonatas 1-12 is now available - see our Tartini page

We have also embarked on a study of Anna Magdalena Bach’s copy of her husband’s Cello Suites, inspired by Anner Bylsma’s famous books. The 1st and 2nd Suites, following her copy, are now available for violin, viola and cello. This has also led to a reappraisal of Bach’s MS of his solo violin works - more to follow.

Free Downloads

In August 2015, we started to offer free downloads and we are adding to these on a regular basis. So far, we have music for violin, viola and cello by Bach, Geminiani, Joachim, Leopold Mozart, Max Reger and Saint-Saëns and others.

Music for violin and string orchestra

We have a wide variety of music for violin, including solo violin repertoire, arrangements, standard repertoire in new editions and studies.

Our range of string orchestra music includes Tony Urbainczyk’s arrangement of Elgar’s Organ Sonata, and a wide selection of other music for strings, arrangements and original pieces, which cater for all levels of ability.

Violin Studies for the 21st Century

We have the first three studies in a series aiming to work at an advanced level to consolidate technique needed for the 20th century and later.  The first is based on the note row for Berg’s Lyric Suite, and the 3rd has extracts from that work. The second is an extract from Hindemith’s Nobilissime Visione - and can serve as an updated version of Kreutzer No. 2.

Teaching

Visit our teaching page for details of a wide range of available music tuition.