Par SCHMITZ MANFRED. Have fun learning through the combination of classical playing technique and pop sound! Separated into different levels of difficulty, in both these titles you’ll find an extensive repertoire of pieces for solo instruments with piano accompaniment. Working together with experienced instrumental pedagogues, Manfred Schmitz has specifically arranged these pieces for violin, viola, cello and flute respectively. Ideal for students and teachers: all components (the piano accompaniment book, the instrumental part books and a play-along CD that contains the piano accompaniments) can all be purchased separately. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Contemporary - Solos / Recueil / Alto et Piano

For Viola and Piano-Leopold J. Beer (1865-1956) was a composer arranger and editor who is best known for his many pedagogical publications including the highly successful Leipzig range of Piano music. His Concertino in E Minor (Op. 47) is scored for Viola and Piano. It is the earlier of his two compositions in the Easy Concertos and Concertinos series.

Avec les opus 116 et 117 de Brahms nous sommes dans les quatre derniers opus pour piano seul composés à Ischl en 1892, de même que pour les opus 118 et 119 en 1893. Brahms a abandonné l'écriture symphonique dont la dernière oeuvre fut le double concerto pour violon et violoncelle et plus tardivement celle qui concerne la musique de chambre.Cherchant une oeuvre inédite pour alto et piano représentative de la fin de la période romantique, mon choix s'est porté sur l'opus 117 #1 car il convenait parfaitement à un arrangement pour piano et alto, la partie mélodique étant de ce registre.A ce propos, n'oublions pas l'admirable oeuvre vocale du compositeur ainsi que les opus symphoniques antérieurs, mais également ceux de musique de chambre et pianistiques où la mélodie est confiée de manière épisodique à une ' voix intermédiaire ' que Brahms affectionnait particulièrement.L'opus 117 #1 est un paysage d'automne en demi-teinte, en clair-obscur cher au Brahms des dernières années dont il cite deux vers en exergue, extraits d'une berceuse écossaise. Dans ses derniers opus pour piano, Brahms retourne complètement à ses origines, avec une inspiration nordique affirmée. Sur la fin de sa vie le compositeur s'abandonne progressivement à un état d'esprit mélancolique qui reflète le sentiment de ses contemporains allemands en cette fin de XIXème siècle.Ce sentiment confus, ce ' Weltschmerz ' traduisant cette ' vague douleur du monde ' incita Brahms à surnommer certaines de ces pièces ' berceuses de ma douleur ' dont l'opus 117 #1 pourrait être un exemple. Ces ultimes opus s'inscrivent dans les quatre grands cycles de rêveries et de méditations pianistiques du célèbre compositeur. / Alto Et Piano

Leopold J. Beer (1865-1956) was a composer, arranger and editor, who is best known for his many pedagogical publications, including the highly successful Leipzig range of Piano music. His Concertino inE Minor (Op. 47) is scored for Viola and Piano. It is the earlier of his two compositions in the Easy Concertos and Concertinos series. / Partitions classique / Cordes / Alto / BOSWORTH

The music scene took notice of Erik Satie (1866-1925) all of a sudden: The world premiere of his ballet Parade on 18 May 1917 caused quite a scandal. The production which involved Sergey Diaghilev with his 'Ballets Russes' Pablo Picasso (scenery and costumes) Jean Cocteau (story) as well as Léonide Massine (choreography) divided the music scene of Paris yet made the composer widely known. Satie who hardly had had any solid musical training and lived in Paris for almost all his life developed a new musical style in deliberate rejection of the 'Wagnérisme' of his time. Classical form models new harmonies stylistic ease meditative and clownish elements amalgamated in an original way the perfect example being his 3 Gymnopédies of 1888 the first of which was here arranged for a solo instrument with Piano accompaniment: Thus it is now possible even for non-pianists to play this famous miniature by Satie. Thanks to its easy playability it can also be used for educational purposes.

Arrangement for Viola and Piano-?Sooner or later the ?Romantic Pieces? will pave their way through all the salons?: thus the periodical Dalibor predicted when the ?Romantic Pieces? op. 75 were first issued by the publisher Simrock in 1887. Since then they have become some of Dvorák?s most popular works for violin and piano. Now they are being made available for violists also.Bella and Semjon Kalinowsky have arranged the four pieces on the basis of the ?Complete Edition of the Works of Anton n Dvorák?. The piano part of the original version remains while the violin part has been adapted for viola; it has been transcribed into the alto clef and includes fingering and bowing marks.With theirentrancing melodies and poetry these pieces pose few technical challenges and are thus easy to play.

Who would have thought that ragtime would enjoy another renaissance! But more than 50 years after the death of its main representative Scott Joplin the film 'The Sting' has made this once popular style well-known and fashionable again. This small selection of Joplin rags is of course not complete without 'The Entertainer'. In comparison 'Easy Winners' and 'Rag-Time Dance' are no less fun to play particularly since in the latter the performer not only has to play but also stomp his foot. Excellent music providing entertainment for many occasions!

Per Viola E Pianoforte. Par CALLIGARIS SERGIO. Sergio Calligaris was born in Rosario (1941), Argentina. He is one of the last musicians to incarnate the traditional 19th century figure of pianist, teacher and composer, inaugurated at the beginning of the 19th century by Muzio Clementi and carriedon after that by a sequence of famous names that the history of music has handed down to us. As a pianist, he began to give public performances at the age of 13, making his debut in his home town Rosario. Following this success, he embarked upon an extremely busy career as a soloist, giving numerous recitals in Buenos Aires and other citiesin Argentina. He continued to take advanced lessons with eminent exponents of the most prestigious international piano schools. In 1974 he became an Italian citizen and settled in Rome, teaching piano as principal instrument at the S. Pietro a Majella StateConservatory in Naples, the Luisa DAnnunzio Conservatory in Pescara and the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in Aquila. As a composer, he began - at just 9 years of age - to study in the rigorous school of Paul Hindemith, under the guidance of Father Luis Machado, from whom he inherited a love of counterpoint and a strong taste for harmony. He took a diploma incomposition, counterpoint and fugue at the age of 16 at the Amigos del Arte Society in Rosario, going on in 1964 to do an advanced course in 12-tone counterpoint at the Cleveland Institute of Music. The catalogue of his compositions, which has nowreached Op. 55, encompasses a huge range of instrumental/vocal chamber music and symphonic works: a vast and articulated catalogue, in which Sergio Calligaris’s composition expresses its inspiration through the dramatic development of a dialecticalcontrast between the two natures of the composer’s personality - the elegiac and the dithyrambic - which confront and interact with each other giving rise to artistic outcomes of a deeply moving nature. / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Date parution : 1905-06-19/ Répertoire / Alto et Piano

Sonata for Piano and Viola in E flat major op. 5 no. 3-Edited by Ernst Herttrich with fingering of the Piano part by Klaus Schilde and supplementary Viola part marked by Tabea Zimmermann.

In Russian Style Opus 35-Ce concertino est basé sur le concept Study and Play faisant de ce recueil un concept idéal pour développer votre jeu dans un environnement plaisant et solidement structuré. Le compact disc vous permet de jouer ce concertino tant dans le tempo normal que dans un tempo d?étude plus lent afin que vous puissiez vous concentrer plus amplement sur votre technique de jeu tout en ayant un meilleur aperçu de la structure de la pièce. Les accompagnements de piano insérés dans le recueil permettent de jouer avec un pianiste accompagnateur.

French composer and teacher Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) was a prolific composer of the 20th Century as a member of 'Les Six'. His compositions remain highly regarded Four Faces being no exception. Milhaud's compositions are influenced by jazz and polytonality as exemplified in Four Faces. The fourth of Four Faces The Parisian Woman is an alternative exciting piece for advanced violists. Composed in 1943 Milhaud makes use of harmonics complex rhythms ornamentation altering time signatures and clefs double stops variation in dynamics and a wide tessitura among other aspects.Milhaud's Four Faces is essential to all aspiring violists.

La référence FP 993 de l'éditeur Fertile Plaine dont l'auteur célèbre est Mereaux F., qui a pour titre Valse op 64/3 ( d'après Chopin, alto et piano ), a été écrite et composée pour Alto et plus particulièrement pour Alto Et Piano. Cette partition musicale appartient à la catégorie Classique. / Alto Et Piano / Partition

Frederic Chopin’s Nocturne is a fabulous example of the genre mysterious and melancholic. It has been expertly and effectively arranged for Viola with Piano Accompaniment by Alan H. Arnold and edited by William Lincer. The rounded sound of the Viola is perfect for the late evening and evoking dusk and nightfall.The solo viola part is also included on a separate insert.