(Carols And Traditional) Arranged by Bill Galliford, Ethan Neuburg, Tod Edmondso...(+)
(Carols And Traditional)
Arranged by Bill
Galliford, Ethan Neuburg,
Tod Edmondson.
Instrumental solo book
and
examples/accompaniment CD
for viola. With viola
fingering chart. 96
pages. Published by
Alfred Publishing.
Viola and piano SKU: BR.EB-9441 Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Ed...(+)
Viola and piano
SKU:
BR.EB-9441
Urtext
based on the Brahms
Complete Edition of the
Gesellschaft der
Musikfreunde in
Vienna. Composed by
Johannes Brahms. Solo
instruments; stapled.
Edition Breitkopf.
Sonata; Romantic. Sheet
Music. Duration 21'.
Breitkopf and Haertel #EB
9441. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.EB-9441).
ISBN
9790004189184. 9 x 12
inches.
The two
sonatas of Johannes
Brahms's op. 120 are
widely hailed as crowning
points of the repertoire
for clarinet and piano.
Moreover, in the version
for viola and piano
arranged by Brahms
himself, they rank among
the most frequently
played viola works of the
19th century. They far
surpass in compositional
substance the relatively
few original sonatas
written for these
instrumentations during
the same period.Of the
two fellow works, the
Sonata No. 2 in E flat
major is the more
accessible. Diverging
from the
classical-romantic
tradition, Brahms used
the key of E flat major
here not to express the
heroic or monumental, but
to obtain lyrical,
chiefly restrained
characterizations. The
serenade-like beauty of
the principal theme,
which opens the sonata,
has always been
particularly admired. In
his review of the world
premiere, the renowned
Viennese music critic
Eduard Hanslick, a friend
of Brahms's, raves with
the words it was as if it
had fallen from the
Heavens. The closing set
of variations also
follows with gentle
gracefulness this lyrical
character. However, the
middle movement, with its
tempestuous outer
sections in E flat minor
and the hymnic trio in B
major provides a
passionate and serious
contrast, which allows
the flanking idyll to
unfold its beauties all
the more insistently.
Piano Accompaniment; Viola - difficult SKU: HL.49018776 Viola and Pian...(+)
Piano Accompaniment;
Viola - difficult
SKU:
HL.49018776
Viola
and Piano. Composed
by Emile Naoumoff. This
edition: Saddle
stitching. Sheet music.
String. Classical.
Softcover. Composed
2001/2009. 46 pages.
Duration 20'. Schott
Music #VAB73. Published
by Schott Music
(HL.49018776).
ISBN
9790001174107.
9.0x12.0x0.135
inches.
The
one-movement, yet
multiple time structured,
sonata uses a gently
modern tonal language and
has been influenced by
the French tradition.
Emile Naoumoff likes to
give his movements
unusual headings that
perfectly describe the
character of the
respective section. The
piece for the combination
of viola and piano, which
is quite rare in concert
life, is a valuable and
fascinating addition to
the repertoire in which
both instruments conduct
a dialogue on an equal
basis.Naoumoff was born
in Sofia in 1962. At the
age of 8, he began his
career as a pianist and
composer; for ten years,
he was a pupil of Nadia
Boulanger until her
death. At the age of 10,
Naoumoff composed and
performed his own piano
concerto under the
direction of Yehudi
Menuhin. Many prizes,
awards and appearances as
a celebrated pianist
followed. Today Naoumoff
lives and works as an
associate professor at
the School of Music of
the Indiana University in
Bloomington. He holds
master classes in the
USA, Europe and Japan and
is director of a music
academy.
Viola and Piano SKU: BT.YE0009 For Violone. Composed by Giovannino...(+)
Viola and Piano
SKU:
BT.YE0009
For
Violone. Composed by
Giovannino. Classical.
Book Only. Yorke Edition
#YE0009. Published by
Yorke Edition
(BT.YE0009).
Very little is
known about the two
sonatas which appear here
in their original keys.
They were placed in the
library of the Music
School in Oxford at the
end of the seventeenth
century in a form
convenient for playing
(i.e.unbound). The
library was catalogued by
Hake between 1850 and
1855 and the sonatas were
eventually bound in 1855
with other instrumental
and vocal manuscripts of
the same period, some of
which are dated
1698.
The
sonatasare both inscribed
on the title page Sonata
Violone Solo. Col Basso
per l'Organo, o Cembalo.
A third sonata bears the
words Sonata Violino e
Violoncino â?¦ di
Giovannino del Violone.
Giovannino (=Little, or
Young John)musthave been
a performer, and although
the third sonata has been
copied by a different
hand, it is conceivable
that Giovannino is a
connecting link between
the three. He cannot,
however, be assumed to be
theirauthor.
The
Violone was a
six-stringed instrument
with frets, and there is
evidence to suggest that
the Contrabasso of the
same period was similar
but probably a little
larger; the Violoncino
(=Little Violone,
orVioloncello) must have
been smaller. The word
'Violone' was also used
as a collective term
embracing all members of
the Viol family, which
means that the sonatas
might well have been
written for a tenor or a
bass Viol, and
notnecessarily a Violone
as such. Indeed, when
they are played on a
Violone, or Double Bass
the continuo bass line
must be played at a lower
pitch than the solo
instrument, to prevent
inversion of the intended
harmony. (The use ofa
Violone/Double Bass
continuo or 16' organ
tone would overcome this
problem.)
The
editor has added no
ornaments or
embellishments to the
solo part as it appears
in the original
manuscript. It is open to
debate whether aViolone
player, owing to the very
nature of his instrument,
would have used any but
the simplest melodic
decorations.
Nevertheless, the
performer should acquaint
himself thoroughly with
those seventeenth century
traditions thatare known
today (see Dart.
Viola and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ627 Composed by Gyula David. Book Only. Compo...(+)
Viola and Piano
SKU:
BT.EMBZ627
Composed
by Gyula David. Book
Only. Composed 1952. 52
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ627.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ627).
Gyula Dávid
(1913-1977) was one of
the most important
members of the generation
of Hungarian composers
who followed Bartók
and Kodály. His ?uvre
includes stage,
orchestral, oratorial,
chamber, and solo
instrumental works.
Although he rarely quoted
folk material directly in
his music, folksong,
popular music and the
spirit of the Hungarian
musical tradition
permeates his works. In
the last two decades of
his life he wrote atonal
and twelve-tone
compositions. With his
Wind Quintet (composed
1949) he created a genre
which plays an important
role in the new Hungarian
music. Gyula Dávid
studied composition with
Albert Siklós and
Zoltán Kodály at
the Academy of Music in
Budapest,graduating in
1938. Between 1938 and
1945 he worked in several
orchestras as viola
player. From 1945 to 1949
he was conductor at
Hungarian National
Theatre, than he became
leader of the Ensemble of
the Hungarian Army. From
1961 to his retirement he
was professor at the
Teacher Training Faculty
of the Academy of Music
in Budapest. Between 1951
and 1960 he taught wind
chamber music, music
theory and wind
orchestration at the
Academy of Music. He was
one of the founders of
the Hungarian Artists'
Union. He was awarded the
Erkel Prize (1952, 1955)
and the Kossuth Prize
(1957).