Telemann: Trio for Treble (Alto) Recorder, Viola, and Basso Continuo TWV42 F Major by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). For Alto Recorder, Treble Recorder. Dowani Book/CD. Play Along. Book and CD. 20 pages. Dowani International #DOW2518. Published by Dowani International

Viola - intermediate

SKU: BT.DHP-1115172-401

Arranged by Coen Wolfgram and Nico Dezaire. De Haske String Series. Folk Klezmer. Book Only. Composed 2011. 16 pages. De Haske Publications #DHP 1115172-401. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1115172-401).

ISBN 9789043139281. 9x12 inches. English-German-French-Dutch.

Are you looking for a duet book full of surprises? Then Klezmatic Duets is just the right book for you! It is available for violin, viola and cello and each book can be combined with each other, making these truly flexible duets. The book contains a selection of well-known traditional melodies which are very different in character. These skilful arrangements allow violinists and viola players to play within the first position. Cello players play up to the fourth position.

Typisch voor klezmer is de zeer expressieve melodie die zowel heel opgewekt kan klinken als tegelijk melancholisch of weemoedig. Klezmatic Duets is dan ook een veelzijdige uitgave: tien bekende en zeer verschillende klezmermelodieënzijn bewerkt voor twee violen, twee altviolen of twee cellos's. De verschillende uitgaven zijn onderling te combineren.

Klezmatic Duets for Violas ist ein vielseitiges Buch: Zehn bekannte, sehr unterschiedliche Klezmermelodien wurden dafür als Duette für zwei Violas bearbeitet; aus diesem Buch kann aber auch gemeinsam mit anderen Streichern gespielt werden, welche die entsprechende Ausgabe für Violine oder Cello besitzen. Geiger müssen für diese Stücke nur die erste Lage beherrschen.

Ten Klezmatic Duets for Violas est un recueil aux multiples facettes : dix mélodies klezmer connues et de styles différents ont été arrangées pour être jouées par deux altistes, mais également en duo avec un autre instrumentiste cordes, tel qu‘un violoniste ou un violoncelliste possédant le recueil approprié. En tant qu‘altiste, vous devrez cependant maîtriser la première position.

Klezmatic Duets for Violas è una pubblicazione che può essere utilizzata in diverse combinazioni: 10 note melodie klezmer sono state arrangiate per due viole. Si può però suonare assieme ad un altro musicista che ha a disposizione la versione per violine o violoncello. Per l‘esecuzione di questi brani è richiesta solo la padronanza della prima posizione.

Viola and piano - Level 1

SKU: LM.C06671

Composed by Charlotte Lapeyre. Classical. Score. Editions Combre #C06671. Published by Editions Combre (LM.C06671).

ISBN 9790230366717.

Thibaut, l'escargot - Antoine, l'iguane - Tristan, l'elephant - Charlotte, la marmotte - Justin, le pingouin.

Viola - easy

SKU: BT.DHP-1145555-400

Fingerings, scales and triads. Composed by Nico Dezaire. Tuition. Book with CD. Composed 2014. 92 pages. De Haske Publications #DHP 1145555-400. Published by De Haske Publications (BT.DHP-1145555-400).

ISBN 9789043135979. English-German-French-Dutch.

Position 1 covers the four fingerings of the first position. The connection between these fingerings and the different keys - up to three sharps or flats - is also dealt with. The book features 38 exercises for the various fingerings, sevenscale and triad exercises, and 68 attractive performance pieces in a range of musical styles. The performance pieces can be played with CD accompaniment (demo and play-along tracks are featured on CDs 1 and 2) or with piano accompaniment. The pianoaccompaniments can be found on CD 2 in PDF form.

In Position 1 worden alle vingerstellingen binnen de 1e positie geleerd aan de hand van grepenschema?s, oefeningen en speelstukken. Verder wordt het verband gelegd tussen de verschillende vingerstellingen in toonladders en drieklanken inde 1e positie over 2 oktaven. De 68 speelstukken kunnen met cd-begeleiding worden gespeeld, of met live-pianobegeleidingen. Deze worden als pdf geleverd op de 2 bijbehorende cd?s. De vertrouwde afwisseling van nieuwe stukken, arrangementen vanklassieke thema?s en volksliedjes ontbreekt uiteraard niet!

Lees hier de boekbespreking uit Arco.

In Position 1 geht es um die vier Griffarten der ersten Lage. Diese Griffarten werden auch mit den verschiedenen Tonarten - mit bis zu drei Kreuzen oder Bs - verknüpft. Das Buch umfasst 38 �bungen für die verschiedenen Griffarten, siebenTonleiter- und Dreiklangsübungen sowie 68 reizvolle Vortragsstücke in einer ganzen Palette an Musikstilen. Die Vortragsstücke können zu den Begleitungen auf den beiden CDs (die Demo- und Mitspielversionen enthalten), aber auch mit einem Pianistengespielt werden. Die Klavierstimmen sind im PDF-Format zum Ausdrucken auf der CD 2 enthalten.

Position 1 couvre les quatre doigtés de la première position et examine le rapport entre ces doigtés et les différentes tonalités - jusquà trois dièses ou bémols. Cet ouvrage contient 38 exercices pour les divers doigtés, 7exercices de gammes et de triades, et 68 morceaux de concert dans une diversité de styles. Ces morceaux peuvent être exécutés avec l´accompagnement du CD, mais aussi accompagnés au piano. Des versions intégrales et de démonstration figurent surles CD 1 et 2, ce dernier comprenant aussi les partitions du piano sous forme de fichiers PDF.

Position 1 affronta le quattro diteggiature della prima posizione. La pubblicazione contiene 38 esercizi per le varie posizioni, sette scale e terze, come anche 68 accattivanti brani in vari stili musicali da suonare in pubblico. Questipossono essere eseguiti sia con lausilio dei 2 CD inclusi (traccia demo e traccia play-along), sia con l´accompagnamento di un pianista. Le parti del piano, contenute sul secondo CD, sono scaricabili in formato PDF.

By Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959). Miniature score for string trio (violin, viola, and cello). 35 pages. Published by Praha (Czech import).

2 violins, viola, violoncello

SKU: FG.55011-875-1

Composed by Lotta Wennäkoski. Classical, contemporary. Score & parts. Fennica Gehrman #55011-875-1. Published by Fennica Gehrman (FG.55011-875-1).

Lotta Wennäkoski's Pige (2021-2022) for string quartet was commissioned to be paired with the Death and the Maiden quartet by Franz Schubert (pige is Danish for girl). The composer tells:

The first movement Vorüber, ach, vorüber! is based on the first half of Schubert’s lied lying behind his The Death and the Maiden quartet. The maiden’s song in the beginning of the lied has not found its way to his string quartet, so I wanted to use this material in mine. The second move-ment Daktylus borrows its idea from the haunting pulse of Schubert’s chant of Death. Something fierce and something soundless can be heard here - along with other variants on the dactyl rhythm. For example, I’ve written a lyrically flowing melody based on the same rhythmic pattern (long-short-short).

Schubert’s quartet is wonderful music and of course a cornerstone of the repertoire, and the death and the maiden is a strong, tempting and gloomy motif in art history. On the other hand, I just couldn’t help seeing the motif also as a - somewhat passé - image of an old male desiring the ulti-mately young female body. The third movement thus turns its gaze to the girl herself. Pigen og scrapbogen, The Girl and the Scrapbook, is joyful textural music - compiled of fragments and freely handled quotations that might spring to mind when thinking of a vital girl’s life.


This product includes the full score and the set of parts.

Movements:
1. Vorüber, ach, vorüber!
2. Daktylus
3. Pigen og scrapbogen (das Mädchen und das Scrapbuch)

The first movement can also be performed separately as a prologue to The Death and the Maiden string quartet by Franz Schubert.

By Andrew Surmani, Karen Farnum Surmani, And Morton Manus. For Alto Clef (Viola). Textbook - General. Essentials of Music Theory. Book and 2 CDs. 124 pages. Published by Alfred Publishing.

Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory. (Complete Book Alto Clef (Viola) Edition). By Andrew Surmani and Morton Manus. For Alto Clef (Viola). Reference Textbooks; Textbook - General; Theory. Essentials of Music Theory. Book. 124 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

(Viola). Dowani Book/CD. BOOK W/CD. Size 9x12 inches. 24 pages. Published by Dowani.

(Mix and Match Trios for Strings, Woodwinds, Saxophones and Keyboard). By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. String Trio, Wind Trio, Mixed Trio, Clarinet Trio, Saxophone Trio, Piano Trio, Piano Quartet. For Viola in alto clef. Trios. Intermediate Music for Three. Classical. Intermediate. Partbook - Part 2. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. String Trio. For violin, viola, cello. Irish Folk. Set of parts. Standard Notation. 50 (violin a), 50 (viola b), 50 (cello c) pages

Arranged by Deborah Greenblatt. For viola. Danish Fiddle. Book. Published by Greenblatt and Seay.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164002720

Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral and Saddle. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002720).

UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

Composed by Andrew March. Score and parts. Composed 2001; 2016. Duration 5'40 . Published by Alea Publishing (A7.ALEA1154).

Mixed Trios. By Various. Arranged by Daniel Kelley. For viola. Trios. Music for Three. Classical / Baroque. Level: Intermediate/Advanced. Part 2. Published by Last Resort Music Publishing.