Welcome to Navarro River Music, the home of Cello Drones and the music of cellist/composer Marcia Sloane. You will also find information about string camps for kids and adults in Mendocino County, California.
While you're here, take a healing two-minute journey around the circle of fifths with resonant acoustic cello drones; and don't miss the five-minute film “Samba for Mooli” by Dan Nadaner featuring music for cello, guitar, and percussion by Marcia Sloane, Todd Walton, and Amunka Davila. Listen to more music by Marcia and check out new sheet music for cello ensemble and chamber music for cello with other instruments. Credit Cards accepted for CD and sheet music purchases.
- For string players, wind players, vocalists, and instrumentalists
- Develop your ear and improve your intonation
- Tune intervals, scales, chords, arpeggios, and musical passages
- Drones on all 12 chromatic pitches to accompany major, minor, and modal scales
- Tune your instrument
- Great practice and teaching tool
- Helps build technique musically
- Background soundscape and harmonic base for improvisation
- Warm resonant sound of acoustic cello
As one soothing acoustic cello tone dissolves into the next, your mind settles into a state of calm; ideal for meditation, creative activity, and relaxation.
Classical, new age, world fusion cello with vocals, guitar, accordion, clarinet, piano, and percussion
Danceable love songs with a latin tinge, acoustic Americana with cello, vocals, guitar, piano, and percussion.
Cello interludes surrounding five funny and poignant short stories written and read by Todd Walton.
Sheet Music
- Sevensong — for Cello Ensemble
- Thunder Shower — for Flute, Violin, Viola, and Cello
- Stories of Joy and the Trickster — Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano
Available soon.
 String camps for Kids and Adults in Mendocino County, California
- February 6-8, 2009
- August 3-8, 2009
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