Even novices will sound great with Viola Easy Instrumental Play-Along: Classical Themes featuring 10 pieces which have been carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available for download to help you hear how the song should sound.Once you've mastered the notes download the backing tracks to play along with the band.Titles include Can Can Largo from Symphony No. 9 (???New World???) Musette in D Major Spring Trumpet Voluntary and more.

15 timeless and familiar classical themes in arrangements perfect for budding instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound then play along and sound like a pro! Includes: Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) ? Can Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld) (Offenbach) ? Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach) ? Morning Mood (from Peer Gynt) (Grieg) ? Ode to Joy (from Symphony No. 9) (Beethoven) ? William Tell Overture (Rossini) ? and more.

Instrumental Play-Along-Pick up your Viola and play along with 14 timeless classics from Disney films. This pack includes a CD of backing tracks and matching sheet music in the book allowing you to join in.

Instrumental Play-Along-12 of the most enduring pop classic songs are included in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists.Classic Pop Songs features online access to audio demonstration and great-sounding backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound.Songs include Bridge over Troubled Water ? Candle in the Wind ? Dust in the Wind ? Every Breath You Take ? Fire and Rain ? Good Vibrations ? Have I Told You Lately ? Heaven ? Lean on Me ? She's Always a Woman ? Tears in Heaven and With a Little Help from My Friends.

'Die fröhliche Viola' is a viola method for children which is aimed primarily at pupils who start to learn playing the viola without taking a detour to the violin. Those who have already played the violin and use the method as a 'way to change instruments' may skip some pieces or even start with Vol.2.Like 'Die fröhliche Violine' this book intends to make the children have fun while learning to play the viola. For this purpose a stylistically varied range of classical and folkloristic songs and instrumental pieces encourage music-making and small texts provide interesting information on the viola the music and its composers.The viola is used both as a solo and as anaccompanying instrument and the 'hearing' and 'counting' of middle and lower lines are specifically trained. Due to the fact that many songs and secondary parts are notated in the treble clef and thanks to examples for trio and quartet playing this book especially encourages ensemble playing with friends or within the family.

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 comprehensive musicianship String method.About The Book:Unique chapter layout provides a goal-orientated format organised by school quarter.4 full-page assessments include:- Critical Listening- Playing By Ear- Theory and Terminology- Composing Arranging and Improvisation- Performance- Advanced Bow StudiesWealth of classical and world music.8 arrangements and original compositions for String Orchestra.Duets rounds and a solo with Piano accompaniment.Play-along accompaniments feature demo and performance tracks with professionalmusicians.Featured in SmartMusic.Correlates with science and world history.Fully integrated with the National Standards for Music Education.Video tutorials with master teachers and students. About The Accompaniment Tracks:Each track includes a demo version with professional musicians followed by accompaniment only.Outstanding accompaniments explore a wide variety of musical styles to make practice exciting and fun.Play classical and world melodies with characteristic accompaniments that include:Full OrchestraRockLatinJazzFunkCountryElectronicWorld MusicMedia Options:DVD Features:Video tutorialsAccompaniments for the entire bookAbility to transfer MP3 files to a computer or portable deviceOnline Features:Stream or download all accompaniments at no chargeStream all video tutorials at no charge

Classical Play-Along 8-The Hal Leonard Classical Play-Along? series will help you play great classical pieces. Listen to the full performance tracks to hear how the piece sounds with an orchestra and then play along using the accompanimenttracks. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch.

Performed by Elissaveta Staneva violaAccompaniment: Plovdiv Youth OrchestraConductor: Nayden TodorovHoffmeister's viola concerto is one of the first major concerti to feature the viola as a virtuoso soloinstrument. One of the most popular of this prolific composer's works it is a beautiful piece in the classical tradition. Includes a printed music score with informative liner notes; and a compact disc with the concerto performedfirst in stereo with the soloist then again in Stereo minus you the soloist.

La collection Hal Leonard Classical Play-Along permet d?étudier les grandes oeuvres classiques avec pragmatisme et efficacité. Grâce au logiciel Amazing Slow-Downer (téléchargeable sur le CD inclus - compatible avec Mac ou PC) vous avez la possibilité d?ajuster en temps réel la vitesse de lecture du CD sans modifier la hauteur de son. Écoutez la version intégrale enregistrée par des musiciens professionnels pour avoir une idée globale de l?oeuvre puis sélectionnez la version accompagnement seul et le tempo de votre choix pour travailler.

The piece, commissioned by Eszter Lázár and the Hungarian Radio, was composed in 1995 on occasion of the 50th anniversary of Béla Bartók's death. Its world premiere was held on 1 October in the Hungarian Radio, performed by János Fejérvári.The fantasy-like one-movement composition resembles the structure of classical sonatina. Study is an important piece of contemporary viola music and deserves to be a significant part of not only international concert repertoire, but also of academic level music education.This edition has been supported by the Board of Music Publishing of the Hungarian Composers' Union. / Alto