A second set of Easy Progressive Studies for Viola by Herbert Kinsey. These studies published by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music provide invaluable practice material for the building of bowing technique. It also provides much useful note-reading practice within the positions indicated. Each exercise is clearly marked with the technique or skill that you are practicing.

Mary Cohen’s Superstudies For Viola Book 1 is a collection of nineteen original imaginative studies for solo viola which have been specially designed for young players. Each piece concentrates on one or two aspects of technique and the whole set covers a wide range of left and right hand skills including spicatto bowing string-crossing moto perpetuo cantabile and easy double-stopping. Teachers and pupils will find this invaluable yet light-hearted collection both enjoyable and stimulating.

Marcel Vieux composed Ten Studies For Viola for advanced level players. Written among other sets of studies such as 'Twenty studies' and 'Ten studies on Intervals' this piece focuses on some renowned orchestral tunes to develop the skills of the players. It features:  1. Coriolan by Beethoven 2. Preciosa by Weber 3. Le barbier de Séville by Rossini 4. Les noces de Figaro by Mozart 5. Euryanthe by Weber 6. IX Symphonie by Beethoven 7. Benvuto Cellini by Berlioz 8. La grotte de Fingal by Mendelssohn 9. La fiancée vendue by Smetana 10. Tannhaüser by Wagner Marcel Vieux was also a professor at the Paris Conservatoire and a soloist at the Paris Opera. The Marcel Vieux International Viola Competition was established in 1983.

This terrific book provides invaluable practice material for building technique over twenty-four studies in the first position. Originally for Violin it has been accurately and faithfully transcribed for Viola by Margaret Banwell from Kinseyâ??s classic studies. This is a comprehensive exploration of Viola playing and helps train left and right hand dexterity and bow strokes as well as honing knowledge of tempo and time signatures and varying keys. Musical varied and practical these elementary studies will help to point the early stages of development in the right direction.â??The building of technique understanding and reading â?¦ are very thorough and usefully progressiveâ??European String Teachers Associationâ??These transcriptions are a welcome addition to any young violistâ??s etude repertoire.â?? American Music Teacher

Sevcik Viola Studies-Exercises in position changes and scales throughout 3 octaves for relatively advanced pupils. Tbhe Sevcik Viola Studies are a superb collection of exercises to help develop a students' bowing style accuracy rhythms and wrist speed/strength.

Sevcik Viola Studies-A collection of over fifty of Sevcic's preparatory studies in double-stopping arranged by Alan Arnold. Each study can be transposed and played in any of the twelve keys giving the violist ample material to improve the double-stop technique.

There has long been a need for a comprehensive book of elementary intermediate and advanced scales for the Viola. Since the Hrimaly scale studies filled a similar need in the Violin repertoire these scales transcribed and edited for the Viola should effectively fill a void in the Viola literature.

60 First Position Studies from Op. 45 54 74 - Selected and Arranged in-The quintessential Viola method just got even better with a new edition expertly updated and edited by world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine. It contains modernised fingerings bowings and dynamics by Pine all newly engraved for this edition. At the same time it remains faithful to the original maintaining the same pedagogical sequence as Aiqouni's classic edition. This edition also includes a DVD of Matthew Lipman playing all 60 etudes with two camera views so students can choose to see either the bow or the left hand technique. For beginning to intermediate players.

Forty-two studies for the Violin transcribed for the Viola and edited by Walter Blumenau.

Otakar Sevcik-Preparatory trill studies in the 2nd 3rd 4th 5th and 6th positions.

Many violists have grown up on a diet of Violin studies transcribed for Viola and plenty have thrived on them even though the studies are in many cases composed with melodic patterns and fingerings that suit the Violin better than the Viola. Robin Ireland's aim in composing this new study material was to write specifically for the Viola in ways which suit it both technically and tonally.The twelve concert études set out to be musically attractive pieces which in addition to addressing most basic aspects of technique will encourage the development of 'musical' and expressive playing.The set of études is unusual perhaps unique in that it covers a rangeof styles and thus provides a focus for developing an understanding of bowing and articulation appropriate to different periods of music. The first eight études move through baroque classical and romantic styles while the later études include material for developing confidence with metre change and other basic rhythmic skills and with atonality. The last étude introduces an improvisatory style of playing.The concert études should be appropriate for Viola students from Grade 8 upwards. Details of a companion volume of 'technical' études and their availability can be found at www.robinireland.co.uk. These studies are each focused primarily on a single area of technical development in many cases an area not specifically addressed in currently available study material.The new études do not set out to provide a comprehensive alternative to existing study material but rather to complement it and extend its range.