A vast and effective collection of progressive studies in Melodic Double stops by Richard Hofmann. Double stops are performed by depressing and playing two separate strings together to form a dual tone and create harmonic interest. This is a fantastic volume for students and performers enabling either to further their ability by working from simple and uncomplicated lines and building up gradually to playing simultaneous melodic lines with double stops and also triple and quadruple stops known as multiple stopping. Hofmann’s Studies have been transcribed here for Viola by Alan Arnold.

27 pièces pour jouer en troisième position à l'alto. Contenu : A Lady from Roosendaal (Traditional) The chicken cheeps (Traditional) Trumpet Minuet (Dezaire, Nico) Au clair de la lune (Traditional) Little red riding-hood (Traditional) Three-tone-rock (Dezaire, Nico) The chicken cheeps variation (Traditional) Chimes Trumpet Voluntary Flute and Drummer (Traditional) Rockin' the g string (Dezaire, Nico) The poor and the rich man (Traditional) By the rivers of Babylon (Farian, Frank) Feelin' blue (Dezaire, Nico) Old John (Traditional) Gipsy Waltz (Dezaire, Nico) Ah !, Vous dirai-je, maman (Traditional) Habanera (Dezaire, Nico) Frère Jacques (Traditional) Mer hahn en neue oberkeet (Bach, Johann Sebastian) Polka (Dezaire, Nico) Canon (Traditional) Buffonen-Tanz Miss you (Dezaire, Nico) Row your boat (Traditional) Largo from The New World Symphony (Dvorák, Antonín) Do ré mi (Rodgers, Richard)

Edited by Veronica Jacobs. Commissioned for the 1997 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition.