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: IS.VA4754EM

ISBN 9790365047543.

Though born in the Netherlands, composer Marinus de Jong (1891 - 1984) traded his Dutch citizenship for a Belgian one in 1926, and is considered one of Belgium's most prominent composers and pianists of the 20th century. He began his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Antwerp, Belgium, at the age of 15, studying under Lodewijk Mortelmans and Emile Bosquet. His Sonata for Viola Solo, Op. 106 (Sonate voor altviool solo), published by Metropolis Music Publishers in 1973, is a masterful work in four movements. It demonstrates not only his compositional style, sometimes playful and jazzy, other times plaintive and improvisatory, but also his familiarity with the viola, an instrument which he also played.

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.

SKU: HL.49046719

UPC: 842819114123. 9.0x12.0x0.073 inches.