”Designed for the beginner this collection of pieces provides stimulating performing material at the easiest possible level. The accompaniments (piano or CD) provide a good solid backing and will inspire the soloist to play with energy and enthusiasm. I have made much deliberate use of the repetition of phrases as I feel that this is the best way for pupils to absorb new rhythms.” James Rae• Performing pieces for the beginner in a variety of styles including Swing Funk Reggae Blues and Latin• Each piece is recorded with a professional soloist for listening and learning. The following track provides the accompaniment minus the solo forplaying along• The versions available for other instruments can all be played together and used as elementary ensemble material• Ideal for group tuition• Pieces from Play it Cool Viola have been set on the new Trinity Guildhall Examination Syllabus 2007 for Viola Grades 1 and 2

This engaging work was composed in 1929 and premiered the following year by its dedicatee the legendary Spanish cellist Pablo Casals. The five folk songs on which the work is founded are 'Salisbury Plain' 'The Long Whip' 'Low down in the broom' 'Bristol Town' and 'I've been to France'. This arrangement for solo Viola and Orchestra is compatible with the original Orchestral accompaniment materials for which are available on hire.

L'achèvement du mélange du Dawnfaring du matériel librement et conventionnellement répétitons esquissé en Australie, en 1981, à la fois quand Gilbert étudiait australiens birdsong-choeurs, a été retardé jusqu'en 1984 en partie par son compagnon-pièce, ' Moonfaring '. Les trois mouvements de, comme Gilbert, sa ' aubade australien pour alto et piano ' chacune désigner un oiseau australien différent. Tout au long de la minute de quinze travailler la progresse de musique d'immobilité entraperçue à une frénésie toccata tout en explorant un large éventail des humeurs et des couleurs. / Alto Et Piano

For Viola and Piano this is the composer's first opused work. Premiered at the Wigmore Hall in July 1959 by Cecil Aronowitz and Margaret Kitchen.Wood: In 1957 I knew I had newly discovered the music of Schoenberg and hispupils and I knew at once that they were to show me the way forward for my music; as indeed they have ever since. The revelation was primarily an emotional experience for me and however imperfectly their influence wasreceived it was obviously reflected in the all-out chromaticism (new for me then) in the many chains of twelve notes or lesser chromatic formations (which do not here amount to serial working and have only rarely done sosince) in the characteristic harmonic and rhythmic formations the wide and sometimes angular intervals of the melodies and in general the introverted romanticism. Anyway I knew then that this was the sort of music that Ihenceforth would want to write and so I called these Variations my Opus One.The declamatory Introduction leads into the Theme heard on the viola. Six Variations follow of which No.3 is the most violent and No.4 the mostsustainedly lyrical. The recitative-like sixth variation leads into the Finale a more extended movement. The Theme returning on the piano leads to a climax at which there is a citation from Beethoven’s C minor Variations forpiano. Then their characteristics sequence of chords is heard on the piano as an accompaniment to the final statement of my own theme on the viola in the closing bars of the work.

This little suite is particularly suitable as a first introduction to contemporary music. The outer movements seem to pursue a melismatic dialogue, the middle pieces cover a variety of moods. / Alto Et Piano

Minatures de Huw Watkin pour alto et piano ont été écrites pour l'altiste Simon Rowland-Jones et la première fois au Festival de musique North Norfolk en 2009. Il y a huit mouvements courts. ' Le premier a l'alto jouant des fragments de courts, parfois angulaires, parfois lyriques au-dessus des harmonies simples, lent au piano. La quatrième et les septième mouvements sont des variations sur le premier. Entre les deux sont très contrastés miniatures : numéro deux est rapide et passionné, tandis que nombre trois sont lente et contemplative. La cinquième miniature a l'alto jouant semiquavers rapides plus insistantes notes répétées dans le piano, tandis que le mouvement final est très lent et sereine. ' (Huw Watkins) / Alto Et Piano

Description Solos For The Viola Player The purpose of this anthology is to make available to the viola player a substantial body of work, and introducing a valuable and enticing literature. Songlist Adagio (Arpeggione Sonata) [Schubert, Franz] Allegretto Grazioso [Bach, Carl Phillipp Emanuel] Andante (Violin-viola Duo No.2) [Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus] Boston Fancy (Hornpipe) Choralprelude (O Mensch Bewein Dein Sunde Gross) [Bach, Johann Sebastian] German Dance (Landler) [Dittersdorf, Karl Ditters Von] I'm Just A-going Over Jordan March (Notturno) [Beethoven, Ludwig Van] Menuetto [Handel, George Frideric] Romance [Mehul, Etienne-nicolas] Shenandoah Tambourin [D'hervelois, Louis De Caix] Tema Con Variazioni (Couplets Des Folies D'espagne) [Marais, Marin] Verborgenheit (Renunciation) [Wolf, Hugo] Von Ewige Liebe (Love Is Forever) [Brahms, Johannes] Were You There?

Par PLEYEL I. (TR F.MEREAUX). 8’00’’ / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Alto et Piano

Clarinet Sonata op. 107-Just as Johannes Brahms had done with his Opus 120 Reger also provided parts for two alternative solo instruments for his Sonata op. 107: 'I will also arrange the clarinet part for viola so that the work can also be played thus'(letter to his publisher). He by no means wanted to leave the arrangement of the viola part to the publisher as slurs had to be changed here and there as well as octave transpositions had to be made - 'only I can do this work!'The viola’s sonorous mid range comes close to that of the clarinet but lends the work its own timbre. Viola players will also value this Urtext edition on account of the practical fingerings and bowing marks.

Instrumental Solos-Since its opening in 1957 the musical West Side Story has been a hit on Broadway. Made into a successful film starring Rita Moreno Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer in 1961 this tale of star-crossed lovers caught between feuding New York gangs has been gripping audiences for decades. The arrangements in the West Side Story: Instrumental Solos series remain faithful to Bernstein's original score. In this edition the pieces have been idiomatically adapted for the solo Viola. This book features 10 of the best-known songs from the musical including Maria Tonight America I Feel Pretty and more. West Side Story:Instrumental Solos - Viola comes with an enhanced CD featuring Piano accompaniments for all tracks. Playable on both CD player and computer tempo adjustment software is also included for CD-Rom computer use only.

Sonata in Eb Major was originally composed for Viola and Bass in the 1780s. It was arranged for Viola and Piano by Hans Mlynarczyk in 1929. It comprises 5 movements: Allegro Moderato - Menuetto I - Adagio - Menuetto II - Tema Con Variazioni. Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) was an Austrian composer and violinist. He was well-known by Mozart and Haydn and often played string quartets with them together with his pupil Johann Baptist Wanhal. Unlike his contemporaries his compositional style is dominated by lyrical Italianate melodic progression rather than extended harmonic development.

Par MILHAUD DARIUS. Second of the series of ; Four Faces by Darius Milhaud, II. The Wisconsonian is a short piece for Alto and Piano. Easy to play, it requires some technique of the instrument and some theory knowledge to read in different keys. The book includes the parts for Viola and Piano and for Viola only. The music is cheerful and quite fast, with the Viola part playing mainly semisquavers alternating up and down every two bars. It is supposed to represent an American girl coming from Wisconsin. She is part of the four faces with: I. The Californian girl, II. The Wisconsonian and IV. The Parisian girl. Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a French modernist composer and a teacher. He was also part of the Les Six and was strongly influenced by Jazz. His opus list ended at 443./ Répertoire / Alto et Piano

The accompaniment CD for the folio featuring: Adagio (Schubert) ? Allegretto (C.P.E. Bach) ? Andante (Mozart) ? Boston Fancy (Hornpipe) ? German Dance (Dittersdorf) ? I'm Just A-Goin' over Jordan ?March (Beethoven) ? Menuetto (Handel) ? O Mensch Bewein Dein Sunde Gross ? Romance ? Shenandoah ? Tambourin ? Theme and Variations (Marais) ? Verborgenheit (Wolf) ? Von Ewiger Liebe (Brahms)? Were You There?

Commissioned by the Wigmore Hall for the composer's 60th birthday with funds from ACNI.'viola:piano is one of a set of 6 pieces which I wrote in 2008 and 2009. Two of the others violin:piano and cello:piano requirethe instrumentalists to play at different tempi from each other throughout. In this piece the players are playing together but their material is for the most part quite different and for the first 12 minutes the two partshave little in common. It is only after this that they begin a more conventional contrapuntal relationship. This is the first of these pieces to be premiered. It was commissioned by the Wigmore Hall with funding from the ArtsCouncil of Ireland. The piece is dedicated to Mary R?rich.'????????????- Kevin Volans