Even novices will sound great with Viola Easy Instrumental Play-Along: Classical Themes featuring 10 pieces which have been carefully selected and arranged for first-year instrumentalists. Audio demonstration tracks featuring real instruments are available for 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.Titles include Can Can Largo from Symphony No. 9 (???New World???) Musette in D Major Spring Trumpet Voluntary and more.

15 timeless and familiar classical themes in arrangements perfect for budding instrumentalists. It features online access to audio demonstration and backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound then play along and sound like a pro! Includes: Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) ? Can Can (from Orpheus in the Underworld) (Offenbach) ? Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (J.S. Bach) ? Morning Mood (from Peer Gynt) (Grieg) ? Ode to Joy (from Symphony No. 9) (Beethoven) ? William Tell Overture (Rossini) ? and more.

Instrumental Play-Along-Pick up your Viola and play along with 14 timeless classics from Disney films. This pack includes a CD of backing tracks and matching sheet music in the book allowing you to join in.

Instrumental Play-Along-12 of the most enduring pop classic songs are included in this collection perfect for budding instrumentalists.Classic Pop Songs features online access to audio demonstration and great-sounding backing tracks for download or streaming to help you hear how the song should sound.Songs include Bridge over Troubled Water ? Candle in the Wind ? Dust in the Wind ? Every Breath You Take ? Fire and Rain ? Good Vibrations ? Have I Told You Lately ? Heaven ? Lean on Me ? She's Always a Woman ? Tears in Heaven and With a Little Help from My Friends.

'Die fröhliche Viola' is a viola method for children which is aimed primarily at pupils who start to learn playing the viola without taking a detour to the violin. Those who have already played the violin and use the method as a 'way to change instruments' may skip some pieces or even start with Vol.2.Like 'Die fröhliche Violine' this book intends to make the children have fun while learning to play the viola. For this purpose a stylistically varied range of classical and folkloristic songs and instrumental pieces encourage music-making and small texts provide interesting information on the viola the music and its composers.The viola is used both as a solo and as anaccompanying instrument and the 'hearing' and 'counting' of middle and lower lines are specifically trained. Due to the fact that many songs and secondary parts are notated in the treble clef and thanks to examples for trio and quartet playing this book especially encourages ensemble playing with friends or within the family.

Many violists have grown up on a diet of Violin studies transcribed for Viola and plenty have thrived on them even though the studies are in many cases composed with melodic patterns and fingerings that suit the Violin better than the Viola. Robin Ireland's aim in composing this new study material was to write specifically for the Viola in ways which suit it both technically and tonally.The twelve concert études set out to be musically attractive pieces which in addition to addressing most basic aspects of technique will encourage the development of 'musical' and expressive playing.The set of études is unusual perhaps unique in that it covers a rangeof styles and thus provides a focus for developing an understanding of bowing and articulation appropriate to different periods of music. The first eight études move through baroque classical and romantic styles while the later études include material for developing confidence with metre change and other basic rhythmic skills and with atonality. The last étude introduces an improvisatory style of playing.The concert études should be appropriate for Viola students from Grade 8 upwards. Details of a companion volume of 'technical' études and their availability can be found at www.robinireland.co.uk. These studies are each focused primarily on a single area of technical development in many cases an area not specifically addressed in currently available study material.The new études do not set out to provide a comprehensive alternative to existing study material but rather to complement it and extend its range.

A comprehensive musicianship String method.About The Book:Unique chapter layout provides a goal-orientated format organised by school quarter.4 full-page assessments include:- Critical Listening- Playing By Ear- Theory and Terminology- Composing Arranging and Improvisation- Performance- Advanced Bow StudiesWealth of classical and world music.8 arrangements and original compositions for String Orchestra.Duets rounds and a solo with Piano accompaniment.Play-along accompaniments feature demo and performance tracks with professionalmusicians.Featured in SmartMusic.Correlates with science and world history.Fully integrated with the National Standards for Music Education.Video tutorials with master teachers and students. About The Accompaniment Tracks:Each track includes a demo version with professional musicians followed by accompaniment only.Outstanding accompaniments explore a wide variety of musical styles to make practice exciting and fun.Play classical and world melodies with characteristic accompaniments that include:Full OrchestraRockLatinJazzFunkCountryElectronicWorld MusicMedia Options:DVD Features:Video tutorialsAccompaniments for the entire bookAbility to transfer MP3 files to a computer or portable deviceOnline Features:Stream or download all accompaniments at no chargeStream all video tutorials at no charge

Classical Play-Along 8-The Hal Leonard Classical Play-Along? series will help you play great classical pieces. Listen to the full performance tracks to hear how the piece sounds with an orchestra and then play along using the accompanimenttracks. The audio CD is playable on any CD player. For PC and Mac computer users the CD is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing pitch.

Three vamp parts are layered on each other in this innovative improvisation collection allowing soloists to join in as they please.Some vamps are simple others more challenging. Improvising becomes accessible with soloing guidelines and tips. 35 different styles are covered including jazz classical hip-hop rock country-western Asian African Celtic Latin Gregorian and more.Each page has sugested notes for soloing so your solo will always fit with the other players. These volumes are available for four instruments ? Violin Viola and Cello/String Bass ? so string players can improvise together.

Seventeen arrangements and original pieces ideally suited to young viola players. An attractive selection of classical pieces ranging from Handel to Tchaikovsky all expertly arranged by Lionel Salter. The variety of keys rhythms and speeds will provide excellent practice for beginners. For Grades 1 to 3.

Chamber Music Excerpts For Practice-Naughty bits – those tricky passages in chamber music that appear out of nowhere and which can trip you up when it was all going so well even for the violist! The 'naughty bit' might be a passage in a high position possibly in the treble clef a tricky rhythm some awkward and unexpected accidentals or a run of fast notes. But wouldn't life be better if you had had a chance to practise those passages in advance? So here's the solution: a volume of those awkward Viola passages from Beethoven and Mozart String Quartets for you to practise so that you can play them already prepared for those 'naughty bits'. SJ Music also publishes NaughtyBits for cellists from Beethoven's quartets (U1990-2) Haydn quartets (U1989-4) and from quintets sextets and octets from the classical repertoire (U1992-8) and for 2nd violinists from Beethoven quartets (one volume: U1991-2)

Arrangeur: Elizabeth Stuen-Walker. Par STUEN-WALKER ELIZABETH. Violas in Concert is a collection of viola ensembles arranged and composed by Elizabeth Stuen-Walker. The classical collection includes pieces by Bach - Beethoven - Corelli - Dvorak - Seitz - Shostokovich and others. The uniqueness of this collectionat the melodic material is shared among the different parts equally, making them more enjoyable to play and perform. / Méthode / Méthode / Alto

The celebrated and award-winning series continues with a selection of pieces in a wide range of styles and varieties chosen to give you a superb repertoire of music at an early stage.From well-known classical melodies andshowstoppers of the stage to jazz hits folk songs and film themes - the diversity of these accessible arrangements will provide vital early experience in all manner of performance styles. The music includes full accompanimentsfor Piano Keyboard or Guitar making this volume the perfect companion to A New Tune A Day Book 1. Furthermore a professionally produced audio CD packed with stunning recorded accompaniments and demonstrations willallow you to develop your confidence and skills at home as well as offering spectacular backing tracks for your showcase performances.Take your playing to a new level with this superb collection.Voted Best InShow at NAMM 2006 by Music Inc. Magazine.