Welcome to Navarro River Music
home of Navarro River String Camp, Cello Drones,
and the music of Marcia Sloane.

 While you're here...

• Find out about Navarro River String Camp, a chamber music camp in northern California for adult string players.
• Take a two-minute journey around the circle of fifths with resonant acoustic cello drones.
• View the five-minute film “Samba for Mooli” by Dan Nadaner featuring music by the same name for cello, guitar, and percussion.
• Download a free pdf of this beautiful tune and check out other sheet music for cello ensemble and chamber music for cello with other instruments.

Navarro River String Camp

A chamber music camp in Sonoma County created especially for beginning and intermediate adult string players of violin, viola, and cello. If you have an interest in playing with others, and want to gain ensemble experience, this is the camp for you!

Cello Drones for Tuning and Improvisation

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

Cello Drones for Meditation and Relaxation

As one acoustic cello tone fades into the next, your mind settles into a state ideal for meditation, creative activity, and relaxation.

So not Jazz

SO not JAZZ — songs for guitar, cello, piano, and voice; vocals and instrumentals, entrancing improvisations.

Skyward

Songs and instrumental works for cello with vocals, guitar, accordion, clarinet, piano, and percussion; including “Stories of Joy and the Trickster: Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall” for cello, clarinet, and piano.

When Light is Your Garden

Danceable love songs with a latin tinge, acoustic Americana with cello, vocals, guitar, piano, and percussion.

I Remember You

Cello interludes surrounding five funny and poignant short stories written and read by Todd Walton.

Sheet Music

free downloadable pdf files

• Samba for Mooli — a beautiful and lyrical melody for any instrument! Lead sheet (melody and chords) available in both treble and bass clef versions.
• Sevensong — for Cello Ensemble or Cello Quartet
• Thunder Shower — for Flute, Violin, Viola, & Cello
• Stories of Joy and the Trickster — Musical Vignettes on 5 Paintings of Marc Chagall for Clarinet, Cello, & Piano