SKU: FG.55011-004-5
ISBN 979-0-55011-004-5.
SKU: FG.55009-774-2
ISBN 979-0-55009-774-2.
SKU: FG.042-05945-6
ISBN 979-0-042-05945-6.
SKU: FG.55009-907-4
ISBN 979-0-55009-907-4.
SKU: FG.55011-252-0
ISBN 9790550112520.
This viola tutor based on the Colourstrings method is ideally suited for small viola players. The four colourful symbols represent the fours strings of the instrument and the visual stimuli makes learning easy and fun. This is a new and expanded edition (2019), which is better suited for teachers teaching also the violin. This new Viola ABC Book A is modelled after the Violin Book A, making classes with violins and violas easier to teach. There are specific viola pages as well.
SKU: FG.55011-254-4
ISBN 9790550112544.
The third book in the Colourstring Viola ABC series. Based on the famous Colourstrings methodology developed by Geza and Csaba Szilvay, the Colourstrings Viola ABC follows the track of the Violin ABC. The four colourful symbols represent the fours strings of the instrument and the visual stimuli makes learning easy and fun. In Book C the pupils learn five-note melodies played with slurs, playing on two strings, stopping movement with open string, and string crossing. An extensive appendix provides more learning tools.
SKU: FG.55009-917-3
ISBN 979-0-55009-917-3.
SKU: FG.55011-480-7
ISBN 9790550114807.
Kalevi Aho has continued composing his popular Solo pieces for different instruments. Solo XII for viola was born in 2016 in memoriam Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016). It was premiered in August 2017 by Hiyoli Togawa in Luosto Classic festival in Lapland. The duration of the piece is c. 13 minutes.
SKU: FG.55011-686-3
In spring 2020, coronavirus began spreading throughout the world and in many places people were subjected to quarantine. It was then that Hiyoli Togawa, a violist, proposed that the BIS record label release a viola disc entitled Songs of Solitude of short compositions by different contemporary composers, as a sort of reflection of the present time and offering comfort to listeners in their solitude. Hiyoli asked Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) to compose a piece in which she could play and sing simultaneously. The meditative, melancholy Am Horizont is dedicated to Hiyoli Togawa and composed in April 2020. Duration: c. 5'30''.
SKU: HL.48024699
ISBN 9781540059802. UPC: 888680955144.
Kalevi Aho has expanded his popular series of solo pieces for different instruments. Solo XII for viola was composed in 2016 in memoriam Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928-2016).
SKU: HL.48024734
UPC: 888680956592.
The second book in the Colourstring Viola ABC series. Based on the famous Colourstrings methodology developed by Geza and Csaba Szilvay, the Colourstrings Viola ABC follows the track of the Violin ABC. The four colourful symbols represent the fours strings of the instrument and the visual stimuli makes learning easy and fun. In Book B the pupils learn the stopping fingers 1-4 and melodies with two, three, four and five notes. An extensive appendix provides more learning tools.
SKU: FG.55011-253-7
ISBN 9790550112537.
SKU: HL.48024733
UPC: 888680956585.
SKU: FG.55011-758-7
ISBN 9790550117587.
Géza Szilvay's Kreutzerini, here adapted for viola by David Banney, consists of 42 finger exercises for perfect intonation in the first position. These mini-studies were created to make learning and teaching ear-led finger-stopping movements even more effective and enjoyable with inventive and resourceful use of natural harmonics and left hand pizzicatos. Kreutzerini is a supplementary material for the Colourstrings Viola ABC Book B (ISMN 9790550112537), but it can be used independently as well.
