SKU: HL.48010807

UPC: 073999186437. 8.25x6 inches.

Contents: Sound for us • London's burning • Drummer's march • Fiddle and flute • Favourite round • Long, long ago • My dame hath a lame, tame crane • Tallis' canon • Summer song • Summer is a-coming in • Echo dance • Ave Maria • Idle cowboy • Three blind mice • Gavotte • I sing when I'm happy • The rose • Oh, how lovely is the evening • Rumba Time • A boat, a boat • Haste thee, nymph • The flower wondrous-fair • Come, follow • O my love • The four posted bed • Emperor Waltz • Little Brown Jug.

SKU: BT.9781408114582

ISBN 9781408114582. English.

Now in a third edition, Abracadabra Viola has a fresh, contemporary new look and is the perfect book for pupil and teachers.

This title offers an identical selection of repertoire to the other booksin the Abracadabra Strings series, so they can be used in any combination for group or whole class lessons and mixed ensemble performances. Used alone, they remain ideal for individual tuition.

With tunes you know andwant to play, carefully graded in 20 learning steps, this new edition of the popular tutor also includes duets, trios and teacher's parts. Clear fingering and bowing diagrams and concise theory explanations help to teachthefundamentals of the instrument, and each new technical aspect is reinforced by several pieces using that particular technique.

Abracadabra Viola now also includes two CDs of performance and backingtracks, featuring selected orchestral backings.

SKU: HL.48024561

ISBN 9781784543518. 0.078 inches.

This Sonata for Viola (unaccompanied) was written in 1999. The soloists C-string is tuned down a semitone for the entire piece, giving a duskier quality to the tone-colour, and setting up in the very first bar the characteristic melodic/harmonic shape that infiltrates all four movements. I - slowish and thoughtful - gradually expands this opening idea into cantilena and pattern, as prelude to II - Vivacissimo - played muted throughout, a tremolando tarantella, with contrasting section, chunky double-stops, alternating withsomething of a gigue. III - adagio - rhapsodic and quasi-improvisando, enclosing a simple self-contained melody, and linking into IV, where the gigue-like material from the scherzo provides the principal substance, expanding into an ardent cantabile, and calminginto the Coda not just the finale but, in its reminiscences of I, to the sonata as a whole.

SKU: HL.49019919

ISBN 9790001195324. UPC: 840126938838. 9.0x12.0x0.085 inches.

The title goes back to the illustrated book 'Kamfu mir helfen?' by Dirk Schmidt & Barbara Schmidt. The charming story inspired the composer to write music which, according to tradition, is based on the seventh and second intervals, using the common string techniques such as scale, arpeggio, double stop and trill.Naske is one of the most successful female composers in the field of children's theatre. This is why there is a lot of theatricality combined with humour and irony in this virtuoso solo piece, which is also rewarding for viola and violoncello.