Viola

SKU: HL.48024561

Composed by Robin Holloway. Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music. Classical. Softcover. 18 pages. Duration 1440 seconds. Boosey & Hawkes #M060134159. Published by Boosey & Hawkes (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.

Solo viola

SKU: PR.41641619L

For Viola (or Clarinet) and Orchestra. Composed by Johannes Brahms. Arranged by Samuel Adler. N.B.  Soloists should be aware that the Viola version of the Concerto has a few octave changes from the original Brahms.  However, for rehearsal purposes, the Piano part from the original Sonata may be used. With Standard notation. Duration 21 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #416-41619L. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.41641619L).

UPC: 680160642830. 11 x 14 inches.

Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra violist Randolph Kelly had premiered Adler's Viola Concerto in 2000, but the orchestra's artistic management preferred that he not perform a contemporary work for his next solo appearance. With that guideline, Kelly contacted Adler, the master of orchestration, to arrange the Brahms Sonata in F minor, Opus 120 for viola and orchestra. In this new setting, The piece promises to bring the lush romantic strains of the famous sonata to a larger audience without upsetting the purists. (Andrew Druckenbrod, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Classical Music Critic).

Viola - Level 4

SKU: CA.3124813

Cantatas I-III. Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Edited by Klaus Hofmann. Arranged by Paul Horn. This edition: urtext. Stuttgart Urtext Edition: Bach vocal; Carus sheet music series: Vocal scores XL. German title: Weihnachtsoratorium 1-3. Sacred, Oratorios; Stuttgart Urtext editions; Use during church year: Christmas. Individual part. Composed circa 1734. BWV 248. 12 pages. Duration 90 minutes. Carus Verlag #CV 31.248/13. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.3124813).

ISBN 9790007211493. Language: German/English.

With the edition of the Christmas Oratorio within the framework of the Stuttgart Bach Editions, Carus presents a scholarly edition for practical performance. The basis for this publication are Bach's autograph score and the original parts. The conducting score contains an appendix with a concise Critical Report which provides information about the sources and their readings; when necessary, the latter are discussed in more detail, especially with regard to how the editor arrived at solutions for questions of articulation which differ from those found in previous editions. The representative, clothbound volume is supplemented by a study score as well as a choral score, a vocal score and complete orchestral material. In the orchestral material short excerpts containing the conclusions of the secco recitatives are rendered with cue notes in separate vocal systems printed above the score where the instrumentalists pause, thus enabling them make their entrances in the movements which follow these recitatives. This work is also available in carus music, the choir app! Score and part available separately - see item CA.3124800.

Viola - Intermediate

SKU: MB.31154

Saddle-stitched. Technique. Book. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31154. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31154).

ISBN 9781513473888. 8.75X11.75 inches.

Practicing scales is essential to building and maintaining strength, technique, tone, and agility on the viola, but it is easy to slip into the habit of playing scales automatically, without paying attention to tonality or sound production. The 29 single-page studies in this book focus the attention of violists on the beauty of sound, with a particular concern for the way different keys resonate on the viola.The first 24 studies address all minor and relative major keys and proceed through the circle of fifths; the last 5 pieces are individually conceived, i.e., apart from the circle of fifths. No metronome indications are given, so the etudes can be played at individually comfortable tempos.The names of the etudes refer to various animals that have scales, including insects, fish, birds, reptiles, and a few species of mammals. The author hopes that in addition to experiencing more enjoyable scale practice, students will be inspired to learn more about these amazing creatures and write scale studies of their own.

For Viola. By Various. Instrumental Folio. Pop. Softcover. 128 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.224730).

Instrumental Play-Along. Composed by Various. Instrumental Play-Along. Disney, Movies. Softcover Audio Online. 16 pages. Published by Hal Leonard

(Viola Part). For Viola. This edition: Revised. Book; Method/Instruction; String - Viola (Suzuki). The Suzuki Method Core Materials. 32 pages. Published by Alfred Music Publishing

Solo viola - advanced

SKU: HL.49046438

For Solo Viola. Composed by Vijay Iyer. Sheet music. Edition Schott. Softcover. Composed 2019. 10 pages. Duration 10'. Schott Music #ED 30319. Published by Schott Music (HL.49046438).

ISBN 9781540094056. UPC: 840126924183. 9.0x12.0x0.078 inches.

Judith Butler defines 'precarity' as the unequal distribution of precariousness. These are precarious times, in which access to safe clean water is an endangered human right, increasingly under siege by the damage to the planet brought about by humankind's excesses. But this is also an epoch of systemic inequality, in which corporations, municipalities, and nation-states can and do inflict incremental or drastic harm on entire vulnerable populations, through war, deregulated pollution, and the differential withholding of basic life needs. Jasbir Puar has called out this cruel, largely unchecked capacity of the powerful, which she critically labels 'the right to maim.' The people of Flint, Michigan became a historic example of a living population subjected to this kind of violence, in the form of environmental racism. In this Year of Water, I offer this piece, and my commission, to the children of Flint.- Vijay IyerNew York CityOctober 2, 2019.

For Viola. By Various. Instrumental Folio. Pop. Softcover. 160 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.197189).