SKU: FH.VA5

ISBN 978-1-55440-567-1.

This groundbreaking series for viola offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring virtuoso. Representing all major style periods and a variety of genres, Viola Series, 2013 Edition offers all the music and tools needed to support a comprehensive course of study from the beginner to advanced levels. A rich and varied selection of music in each of these nine progressive volumes of repertoire appeals to violists of all ages. From the Preparatory Level through Level 8, students will be exposed to quality selections originally written for viola, fun arrangements of traditional fiddle and folk tunes, as well as contemporary pieces by notable composers such as Violet Archer, Carey Cheney, and Fritz Kriesler.
Concertos and Concertinos:
Concerto in C Minor, op. 12, no. 3 - Seitz, Friedrich
- First Movement
Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9 - Telemann, Georg Philipp
- Third Movement
- Fourth Movement
Concerto in D Minor, op. 3, no. 6, RV 356 - Vivaldi, Antonio arr. Christine Donkin
- Third Movement
Sonatas and Sonatinas:
Sonata in E flat Major - Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von
Sonata - Cerha, Friedrich
- First Movement
- Second Movement
Sonata in G Major, op. 2, no. 6 - Flackton, William arr. Harold Birston
- Second Movement
- Third Movement
Concert Repertoire:
Langsam, op. 102, no. 2 - Schumann, Robert
La Provencale - Marais, Marin arr. May Mukle
Arioso - Bach, Johann Sebastian arr. Mark Mrozinski
Tambourin - d'Hervelois, Louis de Caix arr. Paul Doktor
Gypsy Pavan - Mozetich, Marjan
Space Dance - Mozetich, Marjan
Nocturne, op. 186, no. 2 - Kalliwoda, Johann Wenzel
Cradle Song - Bridge, Frank.

SKU: FH.VA4

ISBN 978-1-55440-566-4.

This groundbreaking series for viola offers a sound and progressive collection of Repertoire, Recordings, Etudes, Technique, and Orchestral Excerpts for the aspiring virtuoso. Representing all major style periods and a variety of genres, Viola Series, 2013 Edition offers all the music and tools needed to support a comprehensive course of study from the beginner to advanced levels. A rich and varied selection of music in each of these nine progressive volumes of repertoire appeals to violists of all ages. From the Preparatory Level through Level 8, students will be exposed to quality selections originally written for viola, fun arrangements of traditional fiddle and folk tunes, as well as contemporary pieces by notable composers such as Violet Archer, Carey Cheney, and Fritz Kriesler.
Concertos, Concertinos, Airs Varies, and Fantasias:
Concerto in G Major, TWV 51:G9 - Telemann, Georg Philipp
- First Movement
- Second Movement
Concertino in D Minor, op. 81 - Beer, Leopold J.
- Third Movement: Rondo
Air varie on a Theme by Rossini, op. 89, no. 2 - Dancla, Charles
The Boy Paganini: Fantasia - Mollenhauer, Eduard
Sonatas and Sonatinas:
Sonata in A Minor, op. 2, no. 9 - Valentine, Robert arr. Harold Birston
Sonata in C Major - attr. Handel, George Frideric
- First Movement
- Second Movement
Sonatina in D Minor, WoO 43a - Beethoven, Ludwig van
Concert Repertoire:
Berceuse - Bridge, Frank
Catch Me if You Can! - Donkin, Christine
L'Americaine - Marais, Marin arr. Marcelle Soulage
Orientale, op. 50, no. 9 - Cui, Cesar
Elfentanz - Jenkinson, Ezra
Interlude, op. 19, no. 2 - Chausson, Ernest.

SKU: HL.48180283

UPC: 888680947705. 9.0x12.0x0.146 inches.

Published in 1927, 20 Studies for Viola is the most famous work by Maurice Vieux (1884-1951), a French violist. Composed for upper intermediate / advanced players, these twenty studies of two pages each will help to improve bow technique. Most of the studies are dedicated to famous violists who won the First Prize of the Paris Conservatoire: Jean Gay, Etienne Ginot, André Jouvensal, Jacques Desestre, Denise Thoret, Pierre Pasquier, Robert Boulay, François Broos, Louis Artières, Mrs Crunelle-Martinet, Louis Chaaton, Alice Goninet, Jean Lefebvre, Albert Bernard, Jean Cauhapé, René Cézard, Suzanne Robin, Marcel Quattrochi, Emile Amette and Alice Merckel. Marcel Vieux was also a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and a soloist at the Paris Opera. The Maurice Vieux International Viola Competition was established in 1983.

SKU: HL.48024561

ISBN 9781784543518. 0.078 inches.

This Sonata for Viola (unaccompanied) was written in 1999. The soloists C-string is tuned down a semitone for the entire piece, giving a duskier quality to the tone-colour, and setting up in the very first bar the characteristic melodic/harmonic shape that infiltrates all four movements. I - slowish and thoughtful - gradually expands this opening idea into cantilena and pattern, as prelude to II - Vivacissimo - played muted throughout, a tremolando tarantella, with contrasting section, chunky double-stops, alternating withsomething of a gigue. III - adagio - rhapsodic and quasi-improvisando, enclosing a simple self-contained melody, and linking into IV, where the gigue-like material from the scherzo provides the principal substance, expanding into an ardent cantabile, and calminginto the Coda not just the finale but, in its reminiscences of I, to the sonata as a whole.