21 pieces for viola playerswith piano accompaniment-The Boosey & Hawkes Easy String Music series by Katherine & Hugh Colledge contains four volumes of repertoire for new and developing string players. Popular with teachers and students alike each title steadily introduces and consolidates new techniques fingerings notes and rhythms to build firm foundations for future learning. Each title is available in two editions – one with a CD of demonstration and accompaniment audio tracks and another with a piano accompaniment booklet plus access to downloadable audio resources. Fast Forward the third volume within the series is a collection of twenty-onepieces that explore 0–12–3–4 and 0–1–2–34 finger patterns. New rhythms and compound time are introduced along with a wider range of expression marks and some varied bowings.

Instrumentalists will delight in this collection, which features thematic interpretations of 28 selections from Howard Shore's brilliant scores to The Hobbit motion picture trilogy. Shore masterfully expands upon the musical palette of Middle-earth, blending familiar motifs from the Lord of the Rings trilogy with an exciting array of memorable new themes. This beautifully produced folio features an array of colorful photos from the film. / Alto

Viola Time Joggers boasts no less than 33 simple yet delightful melodies that will encourage and inspire the Viola beginner. The pieces have been written and selected to offer opportunities to develop all the skills the early Viola player needs and to develop your confidence with the instrument. The book includes: Open-string pieces and tunes for finger pattern 0-1-23-4 and 0-1-2-34 All manner of styles from Rag to Flamenco A range of tuners by well-known composers including Handel and Mozart C-String Specials to give you plenty of practice on the C stringEasy duets to play with friends of your teacher Semiquavers dotted crotchets and 6/8 time A Music Fact-Finder page to help with awkward words and signs A CD is included that features full performances that you can play along to with Drums and Bass added to the Jazz and Rock numbers. Many of the tunes are also compatible with the Fiddle Time Runners collection for Violin (catalogue no.3220954)A set of straight-forward Piano accompaniments are also available (catalogue no.3221209)

Big Note/Large Print-Warm-ups for the Violist is an adaptation of Warm-ups for the Violinist. It is targeted to help build strengthen and develop the muscles and techniques needed for viola playing. It is especially suited and created for the morecasual violist who is sincerely interested in getting maximum benefit from a minimum of effort. I first tested these scales and exercises on myself for six months faithfully using them for about 20 minutes as warm-ups to my dailypractice. I was rewarded with a definite improvement in my technique. I was actually surprised to see my dexterity grow as I charted my metronomic progress on a calendar. I remember thinking 'I will never be able to play fasterthan this.' But then a couple of weeks later I would indeed climb a notch higher!Through the years I have used these exercises in countless workshops and with private students. The letters of thanks and positive feedback fromstudents who were thrilled with improved violin and fiddle technique have brought me great satisfaction. Progress with these exercises is like the progress of a body builder. Body builders do not get up in the morning and think 'I am going to develop and build my muscles today ' and instantly look like Mr. Atlas. It takes weeks months and for some years to attain results. It must be done over a period of time. Like all diets and exercise programs determination and dedication are most important to success! I sincerely believe that these exercises when faithfully practiced will help violists improve their skills. The exercises will help develop and strengthen muscles usedfor finger dexterity clarity of notes tone bowing-arm control intonation double stops and a flexible bowing-arm wrist. A companion audio play-along recording is available online.

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.

A fresh approach-* An approach based on self-learning and recognition of rhythmic and melodic patterns. * Original tunes rather than abstract sight-reading exercises. * 214 carefully graded pieces in a range of musical styles. * Eight sections ranging from open strings to 3rd position. * Each section concludes with a set of duets and accompanied pieces for practice of ensemble sight-reading. * Tunes progress towards all key signatures up to three sharps and flats. * Preliminary towards grade 5.

Instrumental Play-Along-Instrumental Play-Along: Taylor Swift (Viola) includes 15 favourites from this Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter including: Back to December ? Change ? Fearless ? Fifteen ? Love Story ? Mine ? Our Song ? Picture to Burn ? Should've Said No ? Sparks Fly ? Speak Now ? Teardrops on My Guitar ? Today Was a Fairytale ? White Horse ? You Belong with Me.

This award winning series of books offers an exciting advance in the teaching of stringed instruments intergrating musical awareness creativity and technical development from the outset. Making their way through the series pupils encounter an attractive selection of new tunes and arrangements on which to build their repertoire. The material is presented as a logical progression of musical activities involving both the instrument and the voice. These make learning fun and are easily incorporated into instrumental lessons simultaneously developing the pupil's technical and musical abilities while re-inforcing aspects of the school music curriculum.

Par COLLEDGE HUGH / COLLEDGE KATHERINE. La collection Easy String Music de Boosey

Seventeen arrangements and original pieces ideally suited to young viola players. An attractive selection of classical pieces ranging from Handel to Tchaikovsky all expertly arranged by Lionel Salter. The variety of keys rhythms and speeds will provide excellent practice for beginners. For Grades 1 to 3.

Six Easy Pieces - In First Position For Viola And Piano suitable for Viola (or Cello) players of grade 2-3 standard.