A Must-Have Collection of Well-Known Songs!-If you've been taking viola lessons for a little while you're probably eager to put your new skills to use and learn to play some familiar songs. The First 50 Songs You Should Play on the Viola includes a wide variety of favorite songs from pop hits and movie themes to classical melodies and folk songs. Titles include: All of Me · All You Need Is Love · Canon in D · Dust in the Wind · Eleanor Rigby · Fight Song · God Bless America® · The Godfather (Love Theme) · Hallelujah · Hello · I Will Always Love You · Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring · Just Give Me a Reason · Just the Way You Are · Let It Go · My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme from 'Titanic') · Pure Imagination · Roar · Rolling inthe Deep · Satin Doll · Shake It Off · Stand by Me · The Star-Spangled Banner · This Is Me · You Raise Me Up · and more.

Book with Online Audio Tracks-Even novices will sound great with Viola Easy Instrumental Play-Along: Disney featuring 10 songs carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available via 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.Songs include The Ballad of Davy Crockett Can You Feel the Love Tonight Mickey Mouse March Part of Your World You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly! and more.

In 1922 Maurice Ravel heard the young Hungarian violin virtuoso and niece of Joseph Joachim, Jelly D'Aranyi, in concert in London. Following the performance, Ravel spent the remainder of the evening requesting D'Aranyi to play numerous gypsy tunes on her violin, probing her on the technical limits of the instrument. The result of this encounter is Ravel's virtuoso classic 'Tzigane?. Written originally for violin and piano or luthéal (a mechanism invented in 1919 that attaches to a piano, producing a sound similar to the rich overtones of the Cimbalon), the premiere took place in London in April 1924. The composer had finished the work only days beforehand. Ravel later orchestrated 'Tzigane? and both versions remain a 'must? for music-lovers and aspiring violinists today. Jelly D'Aranyi performed both versions regularly throughout her long career. This Urtext edition presents the first scholarly-critical edition of Ravel's masterpiece. It is published both in the orchestral version, complete with full score and performance material, as well as in the composer's earlier version for violin and piano. All known sources, including letters, have been drawn on for the new edition - one of the available sources, consulted for the first time, was a copy of 'Tzigane? from the estate of Jelly D'Aranyi, which is today part of a private collection. The version for piano and violin contains, besides the Urtext part, a second violin part as a facsimile with performance instructions by Jelly D'Aranyi. D'Aranyi's alterations and fingering reflect how Ravel must have heard the work in rehearsals and performance and as such are a document of early 20th century performance practice. The cooperation between Ravel and D'Aranyi is comparable to that of Brahms and Joachim working on the Brahms violin concerto.- First scholarly-critical Urtext edition of the work - Presented are both versions: for violin and orchestra and for violin and piano- Includes Jelly D'Aranyi's fingering / Alto