Viola Easy Instrumental Play-Along: Classic Rock features ten classic rock songs in accessible arrangements designed specifically for Viola students in their first year of study. Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available to download allowing novices to hear how the song should sound and backing tracks are also included so learners can play along with the band.This songbook includes the hits I Heard It Through The Grapevine Brown Eyed Girl Fly Like An Eagle Another One Bites The Dust and more.

Programme Note Per Nørgård LIBRO PER NOBUKO (1992)LIBRO PER NOBUKO (BOOK FOR NOBUKO) consists of two pieces written for Nobuko Imai the Japanese violist.Dedicated Nobuko Imai (1) and Bo [Vincens Steensen-Leth] (2) 1: Sonata 'The Secret Melody' (1a Prologue 1b Roaming 1c Singing 1d Playing 1e Epilogue) 2: Bofast (in English: Resident)The first (and longest) piece is a sonata in five movements called LA MELODIA SEGRETA (THE SECRET MELODY). The title is borrowed from a book by Trinh Xuan Thuan the Vietnamese astrophysicist. Of the mysterious and inexplicable order of the universe he writes: Nature sends us the notes of a music formed by a melody that will remain secretforever.The five movements of the sonata circumscribe a hidden melody: a clear melodic shape appears often enough but it soon reveals itself as being part of another superior melody - and so on. In this labyrinthine way the three middle movements framed by a short prologue and epilogue unfold different moods (roaming singing playing) in an eternal hide-and-seek of the melody (melodies).The second piece for Nobuko BOFAST (RESIDENT) is dedicated to Bo Vincens Steensen-Leth in gratitude of the many and selfless services he has rendered to the musical audiences at the locality of Langeland Denmark. The piece remains faithful to one single motif a 'resident' like Bo and his ancestors who have been residents at the manor house Steensgaard for over 400 years.Per Nørgård 1997

Par DVORAK ANTONIN. The profound impression it makes on us is due in part to the sequence of variations on a death motif that seems to have been borrowed from the beginning of the second Kyrie from Bach's Mass in B minor. Written in 1890, it was commissioned by the publisher Novello for the Birmingham Music Festival and premiered there under the direction of the composer on 9 October 1891. For this performance, Dvorák used a copy of the score which he had personally examined and which later served as the engraver's copy. The Dvorák scholar Klaus Döge succeeded in tracking down its location and evaluating this important source for the first time. It contains the 'Fassung letzter Hand' and, moreover, offers valuable insights into Dvorák's conducting workshop. It served as the principal source for the Breitkopf Urtext edition./ Répertoire / Alto

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.

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.

A dozen contemporary hits are included in this collection 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! Songs include: Broken (lovelytheband) · Havana (Camila Cabello) · Heaven (Kane Brown) · High Hopes (Panic! At the Disco) · The Middle (Zedd, Maren Morris and Grey) · Natural (Imagine Dragons) · No Place like You (Backstreet Boys) · Shallow (Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper) · Sucker (Jonas Brothers) · Sunflower (Post Malone and Swae Lee) · thank u, next (Ariana Grande) · Youngblood (5 Seconds of Summer). / Pop and rock / Recueil / Alto

Les joueurs d'alto aimeront les 15 favoris folkloriques dans cette collection, à condition complète avec playback sur CD: A-Tisket A-Tasket - Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie - (Oh, My Darling) Clementine - Frere Jacques (Are You Sleeping?) - The Galway Piper - Greensleeves - Home on the Range / Alto

Instrumental Play-Along-15 favorites arranged for instrumentalists with professionally-recording backing tracks for play-along fun. Includes: Amazing Grace Blessed Assurance In the Garden Leaning on the Everlasting Arms The Old Rugged Cross Shall We Gather at the River? Sweet by and By There is Power in the Blood and more.

Playable on any three instruments or any number of instruments in ensemble. Partitions pour trios. Jouable pour n'importe quel trio ou pour n'importe quel nombre d'instrument dans un ensemble. Arrangées par Michael Story. Niveau 1 à 4. / Niveau : 1-4 / Rép International / Recueil / Alto

Instrumental Play-Along-Solo arrangements of 31 Irish favorites with great-sounding online audio accompaniment tracks. Includes: Danny Boy ? I Once Loved a Lass ? The Little Beggarman ? The Minstrel Boy ? My Wild Irish Rose ? The Wearing of the Green ? and dozens more!

Par NELSON SHEILA MARY. Stringsongs développer les compétences de lecture commencées en Tetratunes, par l'utilisation de chant et jouant de la partie, sans exiger que les touches plus avancés ou poste de travail. Les principaux objectifs sont en développement musicalité, l'utilisation des compétences de base archet pour l'interprétation exacte tangue basée sur des échelles de chant et bien comprises et la capacité d'écouter une partie contrastée./ Recueil / Alto