Sheet Music by Women Composers for Viola: Solo & Ensemble Works

This collection of 19 original, imaginative studies for solo viola has been specially designed for young players. Each piece concentrates one or two aspects of technique, and the whole set covers a wi...

This collection of 12 original, imaginative studies for solo viola continues the technical progression of 'Superstudies Book 1'. Aimed at young players of Grades 2-4 standard, it introduces a wide ran...

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 at...

Im Notenheft befindet sich eine CD, auf der die Klavierbegleitung in zwei Tempi eingespielt ist.Hallo...! Man stelle sich vor, der Goldfisch singt nicht nur. Er kann auch ein Instrument spielen! Inhal...

Joan Tower gives the viola plenty to say with Wild Purple, her first solo work written for violist Paul Neubauer. The work gives violists an opportunity to show the expressive and technical capabiliti...

Above Clouds' for viola and piano, created in 2013/14, is one of Mamlok's most recent compositions and is no longer than about three minutes. In this period, however, many a thing happens, even if, as...

This small suite of three solo pieces was written for violist Deborah Lander, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, which recorded Kats-Chernin's first portrait CD Clocks for ABC Classics in 1997. Th...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

Note by the composer: "This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Sola for solo viola and pre-recorded electronics was composed for Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti. The music, which features extended techniques, was inspired by the search for calm am...

Originally scored for solo cello, this version for solo viola was written in 2019. The theme of the work is 'man & machine' as commissioned by the cellist Michael Nicolas.

Nocturne was written in early 1994 and dedicated to the memory of Witold Lutoslawski. The work, originally written for violin but adapted for viola in this version, is an exploration of early ideas fo...

Three angels sang a sweet song, which sounded far into the high heaven ... This song, which is at least 400 years old, is the basis of the Fantasia: the memorable beginning of the song is easily perce...

Gravity is a basic physical force: on Earth, everything falls towards the center of the Earth, i.e. downwards, unless it is prevented from doing so by other forces. The orbits of planets, moons and co...

Die Sonate für zwei Violen ist eine Huldigung an die Polyphonie. Ihre Charakteristika werden beibehalten, sind aber äußerlich kaum erkennbar.

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 7)